I
love me some good old revenge flicks. I also believe that we are all
capable of doing things that we wouldn't otherwise think possible. But if something so vile happened to a person we loved, who knows what kind of dark places that would take us too?!! Just Us is a wonderful short that addresses this matter, with
beautifully macabre consequences. All too often in society people
such as killers and rapists walk free after committing heinous
crimes, and I think it is at the very core of us as human beings to
want retribution for these crimes. But the fucked up thing
about the world we live in is, bad people walk, even after the most
sordid of crimes. Yet if someone was to take the law into
their own hands and make sure the criminal get their just desserts...it would
be that individual who was doing what any decent human being would be
thinking, they'd be arrested and more than likely go to jail for a
very long time. All whilst the actual bad guy walked! I think
that's why revenge flicks have always sat to well with me...they're
the films where you get to see the bad guys royally fucked up...and
in cases such as Just Us, and my personal favourite female revenge
flick, I Spit On Your Grave...I get to root like fuck for the girl
whopping out a good old ass kicking and dick chopping!
(Pictured above - Director Lori Bowen at work!)
Lori
Bowen did a brilliant job on Just Us and I'd love to see what she'd
do with a revenge feature. She most certainly a talented little lady
with a bright future ahead of her!
And
just a little afterthought, another personal favourite revenge flick
is James Wan's Death Sentence, absolutely fucking amazing film!
