Sebastiane 1976

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Reassigned to a lowly outpost, a Roman guard's Christian beliefs clash with his gay commander's desire for closeness. Being tortured becomes pleasurable.


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Filmed entirely in vulgar Latin, this experimental film recounts the life of Sebastiane, a puritanical but beautiful Christian soldier in the Roman Imperial troops who is martyred when he refuses the homosexual advances of his pagan captain. When this film was released, it was the only English-made film to have required English subtitles, and it is an early film by the noted experimental and outspokenly homosexual director Derek Jarman, who died in 1994. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi


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Last Tango in Paris

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A young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.


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In Bernardo Bertolucci's art-house classic, Marlon Brando delivers one of his characteristically idiosyncratic performances as Paul, a middle-aged American in "emotional exile" who comes to Paris when his estranged wife commits suicide. Chancing to meet young Frenchwoman Jeanne (Maria Schneider), Paul enters into a sadomasochistic, carnal relationship with her, indirectly attacking the hypocrisy all around him through his raw, outrageous sexual behavior. Paul also hopes to purge himself of his own feelings of guilt, brilliantly (and profanely) articulated in a largely ad-libbed monologue at his wife's coffin. If the sexual content in Last Tango is uncomfortably explicit (once seen, the infamous "butter scene" is never forgotten), the combination of Brando's acting, Bertolucci's direction, Vittorio Storaro's cinematography, and Gato Barbieri's music is unbeatable, creating one of the classic European art movies of the 1970s, albeit one that is not for all viewers. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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A Dark Reflection

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A journalist digs deep into the world of aviation and discovers some uncomfortable truths. And a conspiracy trail dating back to 1954. But why is no one saying anything?


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The film, an investigative thriller, based on actual real events occurring globally today, tells the story of two British journalists that by chance, discover aviation's biggest cover-up. A serious in flight incident not disclosed by JASP Airlines reveals a hidden truth. Their investigation soon seeks to prove passengers have been knowingly put at risk since the 1950s. When new airline CEO discovers the darker side of the airline industry and its secret campaign of denial being withheld by airline owner, he is faced with the nightmare scenario. Corporate profit or the public's safety? The film reveals facts that every airline passenger should watch before they next fly.


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Kept Woman

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A woman and her fiancé move to the suburbs, after being robbed. She becomes friendly with the mysterious man next door, who she begins to expect is hiding a dangerous secret.


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A woman moves to the suburbs with her fiancé and becomes involved with a charismatic neighbor who kidnaps women.


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The Phantom Hunting

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Timur, a policeman whose career is on the rise, is forced to break the law in order to save his fiancée, Keira. In so doing, he also uncovers the conspiracy of a global corporation trying to gain control of people's minds and change the course of history...

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The action of this story begins in the near future. The great device codenamed as the “Phantom” is invented by the Global Security Corporation in order to eliminate the crime and to establish a secure global community. But, it is not how it really is. The reverse side of the “Phantom” is to establish an absolute control over people’s minds. The Corporation aims to change the course of the history, by gaining the community of obedient “puppets”, who would never realize that their minds are being controlled. Step by step, the “Phantom” fractures people’s lives, but nobody suspects anything, until it destroys the lives of in-love couple- Timur and Keira. She is convicted of murder, and he needs to break the law to save her. An American criminal hacker named Zach helps Timur to find the truth, and to uncover the Corporation’s conspiracy.

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Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men

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Black Death

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Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.


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The year is 1348. Europe has fallen under the shadow of the Black Death. As the plague decimates all in its path, fear and superstition are rife. In this apocalyptic environment, the church is losing its grip on the people. There are rumors of a village, hidden in marshland that the plague cannot reach. There is even talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to bring the dead back to life. Ulric (Sean Bean), a fearsome knight, is charged by the church to investigate these rumors. He enlists the guidance of a novice monk, Osmund (Eddie Redmayne) to lead him and his band of mercenary soldiers to the marshland, but Osmund has other motives for leaving his monastery. Their journey to the village and events that unfold take them into the heart of darkness and to horrors that will put Osmund's faith in himself and his love for God to the ultimate test. -- (C) Magnolia Releasing


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Jamon Jamon

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Jose Luis is an executive at his parents underwear factory where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor. When Sylvia falls pregnant, Jose Luis promises her that he will marry her, most likely against the wishes of his parents. Jose Luis' mother is determined to break her son's engagement to a girl from a lower-class family, and hires Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter to seduce Sylvia.

- Written by Murray Chapman




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Director Bigas Luna's darkly comic meditation on sex and food focuses on two matriarchs, Carmen (Anna Galiena) and Conchita (Stefania Sandrelli), who fight over the destinies of their respective families. Jose Luis (Jordi Molla), the son of entrepreneur Conchita, has fallen in love with Silvia (Penelope Cruz), the daughter of village prostitute Carmen, so Conchita hires handsome gigolo Raul (Javier Bardem) to woo Silvia in order to force her to break off her romance with Jose Luis. However, complications ensue as Conchita soon finds herself attracted to Raul as well.



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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

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In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 metres deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up! This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus.



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It's the eve of Christmas in northern Finland, and an 'archeological' dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. But this particular Santa isn't the one you want coming to town. When the local children begin mysteriously disappearing, young Pietari and his father Rauno, a reindeer hunter by trade, capture the mythological being and attempt to sell Santa to the misguided leader of the multinational corporation sponsoring the dig. Santa's elves, however, will stop at nothing to free their fearless leader from captivity. What ensues is a wildly humorous nightmare - a fantastically bizarre polemic on modern day morality. RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE is a re-imagining of the most classic of all childhood fantasies, and is a darkly comic gem soon to be required perennial holiday viewing. -- (C) Oscilloscope


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Love

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Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their pretty neighbor into their bed.



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Enter the Void director Gaspar Noe helms this 3D envelope-pushing, non-linear narrative examining modern love and sexual desires.


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THE TREATMENT is an unsettling Belgian murder mystery that gets under your skin and stays there. A nail-biting suspense yarn based on one of a series of best-selling novels by British crime writer Mo Hayder, the film is not an old-fashioned Agatha Christie-type whodunit, but rather its gritty themes of sexual violence and pedophilia give it a raw, contemporary intensity that places it in the same company as the "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" book and film series. Police inspector Nick Cafmeyer is investigating a case where a mother and father have been bound and beaten, and their young son is missing. An obsessive loner, Cafmeyer discovers that there are other similar cases - tragedies where the parents were forced by a psychopath to harm their own children, who then vanish. For the inspector, this triggers memories of his own brother's abduction as a child, and the possibility that he may still be alive somewhere. Grim and wholly engrossing, THE TREATMENT is a thriller with an edge.



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2014 ‘De Behandeling’ Directed by Hans Herbots

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Inspector Nick Cafmeyer seems to have it all - looks, brains and a successful career. But a dark cloud hangs over his life: since the age of nine, he has been haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his younger brother, Bjorn. Plettinckx, a known sex offender, was questioned but quickly released. Plettinckx lives close by and takes fiendish pleasure in harassing Nick. Then, when a disturbing case comes to light involving a missing nine-year-old, Nick heads a massive search which turns into a relentless manhunt. 

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The Target

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In the year 2020, a group of wealthy Moscovites travel to an abandoned astrophysics complex, rumoured to have enough power to halt the process of ageing.

Hollywood Reporter

A well-crafted but not entirely effective view of the near future.

An ambitious depiction of a dystopian near future, the Russian drama Target (Mishen) doesn’t hit all its many intended bull’s-eyes. But if director Alexander Zeldovich overreaches, he has created a film with strong cult potential. The built-for-the-huge-screen visual sweep of his storytelling has an undeniable pull, and his portrait of a group of well-heeled Muscovites at times recalls 1960s-vintage Fellini with its blend of absurdity and ennui.

The social observation is far sharper than the melodrama in the two-and-a-half-hour feature, which conjures a fresh, if ultimately unwieldy, mix of action, sci-fi, political philosophy and sex. A World Cinema selection at the recent AFI Fest, Target is the third feature from REN Film, which produced Andrey Zvjagintzev's exquisite minimalist drama The Return. Target is far from minimalist, and it loses strength and focus as it proceeds. Still, its originality and flashes of cinematic oomph should guarantee continued festival exposure and could secure theatrical berths in select territories.

Setting the genre mashup in 2020 Moscow, Zeldovich and his co-screenwriter, Vladimir Sorokin, parody contemporary trends and push them into imaginary — and mostly believable — realms. It’s the upper-class obsession with cutting-edge life enhancements, from bottled artesian spring water to the hard science of antiaging, that leads the central group of characters to a remote desert compound near Mongolia, said to be the “clearest” place on the planet. They arrive via private plane, toasting “freedom, youth and happiness,” and spend a night at an abandoned astrophysics facility. The radiation-collection well, known as the Target, is supposed to provide the ultimate rejuvenating experience. If it’s any indication, the locals seem to be eternally young.

At the center of the group is the Russian Federation’s minister of natural resources, Viktor (Maksim Sukhanov), alternately dour and impassioned. His bored wife, Zoya (Justine Waddell), is drawn to the intense Nikolai (Vitaly Kishchenko), an official in “mobile customs.” At their bare-bones hotel, her brother, Mitya (Danila Kozlovsky), the speed-talking ringmaster of a bizarre reality contest show, falls for Anna (Daniela Stoyanovich), host of his favorite radio program, Chinese for Dummies.

China figures large in the story’s astute East-facing setup, as it does in any realistic view of today’s world economy. Everything from run-of-the-mill consumer goods to highly valued memory chips are in transport 24 hours per day, hauled in semis on transnational roads like the Guangzhou-Paris Highway. Nikolai is a figure of authority on that high-traffic route. Legitimate title aside, his power rests on strong-arming cargo carriers into an insurance scam. His sense of command goes off the rails in a business meeting that ends, rather extravagantly, in murder.

The film, too, goes off the rails. But along the way it dips into bracing doses of Russian philosophical argument— socialism versus democracy, freedom versus equality— on Mitya’s grotesque circus of a show. And it casts a laser beam at the way the privileged rate and quantify everything, including character. Viktor, convinced that there are no ethically neutral substances, relies on goggles that distinguish good from evil. Like a crackpot New Age guru, he proselytizes for the urgency of turning the nation into a source of positive energy.

Amid myriad plot strands — international thuggery, Viktor’s zealotry and Zoya’s increasingly strange affair with Nikolai (even with limited nudity, the sex scenes are strikingly graphic) — the drama squanders its bracing promise. The satire of the early stretches devolves into bitter rebuke. But those early sequences, with their vivid characters, smart production design and fluent lensing, are visions with staying power.

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Short night of Glass Dolls

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An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared.


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The corpse of reporter Gregory Moore (Jean Sorel of LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN) is found in a Prague plaza and brought to the local morgue. But Moore is actually alive, trapped inside his dead body and desperately recalling how the mysterious disappearance of his beautiful girlfriend (Barbara Bach of THE SPY WHO LOVED ME) led to a terrifying conspiracy of depravity. Can a reporter with no visible signs of life solve this perverse puzzle before he meets his ultimate deadline?

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I spit on your Grave

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An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.


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Originally released as Day of the Woman but far more successful under this lurid title, I Spit on Your Grave stars Camille Keaton as Jennifer, a woman brutally raped by four thugs. She survives the crime to seek savage, bloody revenge.

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“You know, sometimes I look at these glorious lookin’ chicks. I mean, the ones that look like real knockouts; sexy and all. And, I wonder… I wonder if they gotta take a shit too?”

I Spit on Your Grave. Quite possibly the most notorious title in exploitation horror history, the movie has been bashed by most and yet is enjoyed by a select few. The rape/revenge movies have always been the subjects of much debate and none were as debated as Meir Zarchi’s effort, which carries one of the greatest titles in horror film history. When effective, rape/revenge films leave the viewer battered and bruised, disoriented from the crash and feeling as abused as the victim.Night Train Murders was a perfect example of this, a well made film with likable characters, great direction and good pacing. I’d seen my fair share of notorious “bad taste” films and I enjoy a lot of them for what they are, an exercise in the mind of a madman, realistic portrayals of sickening events that rip your heart out. For the most part, though, they really aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. Cannibal Holocaust is the only film I’ve encountered that truly lived up to the hype and it became one of my favorite horror films of all time. Will I Spit on Your Grave be as effective or will it be just another film that lives on because of exaggerated word of mouth? 

Jennifer Hills (Camille Keaton) is a writer from New York who decides to get away from it all and take a trip to the country. After writing many short stories, she has decided to pursue writing her first novel and thinks the lack of distraction alone in the woods will be a great way to focus on her material. She is a strong, independent woman and most of the stories she’s had published were in women’s magazines. When she arrives at her lakeshore cabin, she decides to take a little skinny dip in the lake (because that would be the obvious thing to do, right?). After her little swim, she gets dressed before getting a visitor at her door. Matthew Lucas (Richard Pace) arrives, delivering her groceries. He’s mildly retarded and rather silly looking, and seems to be a very kind guy. Jennifer is nice to him and he takes a liking to her lack of a bra and cut-off jeans, not to mention the tip. 

Matthew takes off on his bike and goes to the local gas station where Jennifer had filled up as she came into town and chats with the town hicks, a real bunch of philosophers. He tells them he saw her tits and they rib him because he’s taken quite a liking to her (and because they figure he’ll die a virgin). A while later, Jennifer is relaxing in her canoe on the lake when a motorboat approaches her and begins circling her like a shark before tying the end of the canoe to their boat and driving off with her in tow. It turns out to be the town hicks with their “friend” Matthew coming along for the ride and they aren’t taking her to land for a picnic. She is brutally raped on four different occasions by the men before being left for dead. The hicks decide Matthew should be the one to kill her and he chickens out, but assures everyone he’s done the deed. After recovering and getting her senses back (although not too many of them), Jennifer makes a trip to the town church. She kneels before the cross and merely says two words. ”Forgive me.”

My head shook when I finished viewing I Spit on Your Grave, but not in a bad way. I had been greatly misinformed by nearly everyone whom I had conversed about the film with. I cannot believe so many people take this cheese-fest so damned seriously. I guess it’s due to the taboo subject of rape in film. People seem to think they’re divine because they find rape in a film offensive, yet have no problems watching innocent people be slaughtered, possessed and chopped up in countless horror films. No matter what the film is about, the real quality that determines the effect is the tone, and the tone of I Spit on Your Grave is not that serious. Obviously I am not advocating rape any more than a horror fan would advocate murder, but the madness needs to stop. Just because we’ve been desensitized to death in films doesn’t mean it’s a less horrendous deed. If you still believe rape in any form in a film is off limits, then this review will not apply to you.

It’s not to say there aren’t many disturbing moments in I Spit on Your Grave, as there certainly are. Seeing Jennifer raped over a large rock before emerging from the forest bloody and bruised is very scary and her writhing and crawling in pain after laying motionless over the rock seems very real. The fact that the film takes a cue from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and features no music other than some hicks playing a harmonica here and there further ups the sickening feeling. The mildly retarded man being forced to rape Jennifer is really disturbing; as is the way the other men treat him in general. He is just a guy trying to get a few friends and as you know little of the town (for all we know, these are the only guys loitering around for him to interact with), so it’s really hard to feel anything but sorrow for him. The final rape scene is akin in disgust to the rock scene. Jennifer’s dirty and broken body lies on the floor and she pleads to use her hand on the man instead of him going inside her because she hurts so much. These scenes are not pleasant and are really effective, and if the entire movie was like this I would be more likely to be in the slightly offended boat. The long rape scene people often reference really isn’t that long, and the actual raping takes up under ten minutes of the film or so. If Meir Zarchi really wanted to make a disgusting film, he’d have focused more on Camille naked, made the rape scenes longer and more vicious and he sure as hell wouldn’t have had Jennifer get her revenge.

Everyone familiar with the film knows Siskel & Ebert went nuts over I Spit on Your Grave, blasting it every chance they could. They hammered it as the worst movie ever made; so vile, disgusting and misogynistic that it was unfit for anyone to view. In my opinion, I believe they weren’t fans of our genre of cinema and saw this as the perfect film to pick on and get everyone on their side to lobby against exploitation horror and slashers from being made. Like always, the opposite occurred from their attempts to banish it and it became one of the most infamous cult classics of all time, inspiring people to see the film more so than if they’d have just left it alone (the amazing title also helped). How can you cry misogyny when the guys doing the raping have the combined IQ of Peewee Herman’s right shoe? Those accusing the film of being anti-women are demeaning men because these hicks are some real winners; they are downright imbeciles and have no right being lumped in with the average male (as dumb as the average male is). The character of Matthew could really have been a much more serious point in the movie, but they chose to make him very kid-like and he acts as though he’s in some 50s sitcom, with a silly hat to boot. If you’ve seen Leaving Las Vegas, you know that it has a similar scene which is much more effective and it’s not even a horror film. It’s all about the tone, my friends. The film predates Friday the 13th, but the rednecks are similar to Jason Voorhees, they pop up wherever Jennifer happens to be at the time. 

On the best of days, I struggle not to laugh at rednecks and the hilarity is on display here in droves, with such classic lines as the one above as well as, “one day I’m gonna go to New York and fuck all the broads there”, which is said dead seriously. You can’t wait to see Jennifer hack these moronic hicks up and she does it in fine form, she is genuinely creepy and devoid of emotion (despite a few what the fuck moments) as she does it, she’s actually pretty bad ass. The movie is very bloody in these parts and you are cheering her on every step of the way. It’s fun to see the assholes squirm and one even tries to blame her for the raping because she showed her legs off in front of him at the beginning of the movie. Then there’s the scene in a local diner where they openly talk about the rape/murder and one man yells at another, calling him a murderer. As I said, a real bunch of Einsteins, it is way too hard for me to take this cheesy treasure as a serious piece of cinema. Meir Zarchi does manage some nice cinematography and a jump scare that really made me hop out of my seat and comes out with a perfect combination of cheese and sleaze. The Image DVD is loaded with pictures, trailers, reviews (including the ones done by Siskel & Ebert) and a couple commentaries, the best of which done by Joe Bob Briggs. It’s downright hilarious and he basically points out how everything in the film supposedly stood for was overreacted to. A redneck himself, Joe Bob Briggs is the voice of reason. Very fitting. Buy it!

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Headhunters

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An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.


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Headhunters stars the talented Aksel Hennie (Max Manus) as Roger, a charming scoundrel and Norway's most accomplished headhunter. Roger is living a life of luxury well beyond his means, and stealing art to subsidize his expensive lifestyle. When his beautiful gallery owner wife introduces him to a former mercenary in the possession of an extremely valuable painting, he decides to risk it all to get his hands on it, and in doing so discovers something which makes him a hunted man. Headhunters is based on Jo Nesbø's best-selling thriller from 2008. -- (C) Magnolia

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The Hunters/Jagarna

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• A policeman from Stockholm comes up to Norrland in Sweden to join his brother, now that their parents are dead. While there he starts to work on a long-running case where deer have been poached and soon discovers that his brother is involved...
  - Written by Per Bratt

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MOVIE INFO

Taut, moody and intensely violent (by Swedish standards) this action-packed Swedish thriller was filmed in a snowy northern village and centers on a cop's attempts to stop the slaughter of Laplanders' reindeer by greedy locals. Erik is that policeman. After working many years for the Stockholm police, he returns to his home village to live with his younger brother Leif and work in the local police department. Erik is angered to hear that the Laplander reindeer are being killed by a gang and that the town cops are ignoring the problem. He decides to single-handedly bring the killers to justice. Things get complicated when he learns that Leif is their ring leader. As Erik works to stop them, real violence erupts in the village until the exciting climax when Erik and Leif engage in a final face-off. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

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