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Hate Crime
2012 72 min United States of America
★5.6
Crime, Horror
Director: James Cullen Bressack
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Description
A Jewish family, new to the neighborhood, are recording their youngest son's birthday celebrations on video when their home is suddenly invaded by a band of meth-head Neo-Nazis.
Starring
Jody Barton
Actor
Nicholas Adam Clark
Actor
Gregory DePetro
Actor
Awards
9 wins & 2 nominations
Key opinion
Hate Crime is widely viewed as a disturbing work of exploitation cinema that leans heavily into extreme torture-porn aesthetics. Critics generally agree that the film crosses the line from conventional home-invasion horror into territory that feels like unsettling neo-Nazi propaganda.
| Originality | The film utilizes an relentlessly extreme approach to violence that firmly anchors it in the torture-porn subgenre. | |
| Originality | The narrative draws heavily from existing genre tropes found in works like Funny Games and The Captive, resulting in a derivative experience. | |
| Theme | The depiction of the antagonists as quasi-divine figures moves the film beyond simple horror into the realm of uncomfortable, overt right-wing propaganda. | |
| Direction | Viewers are divided on whether the film’s blend of pseudo-artistic ambiguity successfully creates a complex tone or simply masks a lack of realism in its violent spectacle. |