A farce based on psychological terror

Rating: 10/10 (10 September 2009)

First, the movie is more than 50% farce. E.g., Brad Pitt plays a bumbling Tenneseean from Maynardville, with accent, expressions and all. The star of the movie is Christof Waltz, who (along with another German actor) plays as a master of very subtle psychological terror. You might not see this if you don't understand German, however. Pitt is by far not the main actor. A very unusual movie, with Hillbilly English, German and French spoken, a truly international movie. I couldn't watch the many spots with bloodbath, way too gruesome. Actually, the Hillbilly English is spoken farcically, whereas the German and French are authentic. But that was intended.
(written by someone who lived near Maynardville ...)