this is revenge, this attention—grabbing movie from french writer—director coralie fargeat.r for dead. taken as a feminist take on the rape—revenge genre, often quite a misogynist genre. this has a garish visual style, almost a day glow look to it, sometimes a comic book sensibility. mad max: fury road cited as one of the inspirations. it is very stylish, very well done, very efficiently done. i'm not sure it's as ground—breaking as some critics think. people have been saying it's the first of this genre of movie done with a feminist line, but that is not true. but what it is is a very good calling card, a film which announces itself with its style. it's very gory, and speaking as a horrorfan, i like that, that when it goes into that generic stuff, it does it properly. i know that you are not a horror movie fan. there were reports of some people finding it too gory and not able to get through the screenings. you get reports of people practically needing an ambulance and so on and you never know whether the distributors have said, "well, let's talk that up because it will att