Hanger

Plot synopsis:
Unable to bring in anymore money for Leroy, her abusive pimp, the pregnant Rose tries to run away in the middle of the night, but is caught by Leroy. Using a clothes hanger, Leroy performs an impromptu abortion on Rose, unintentionally killing her in the process. Leroy disposes of Rose's baby in a dumpster, where its cries attract the attention of a homeless man, who raises the disfigured child as "Hanger".
On his eighteenth birthday, the vagrant sends Hanger off to live with John, his biological father, who the man had earlier met at a junkyard. John informs Hanger that he has gotten him a job at the junkyard, and that he will be working there and living with Russell, an acquaintance with Down syndrome. As he drives away with Hanger, John runs over the homeless man (who was defecating in his tent) and joyously tells his long-lost son "Welcome to the rest of your life!" John gives Hanger a picture of Rose, and picks up a prostitute for him to have sex with, but upon seeing Hanger's mutilated face, the woman goes into hysterics, so John crushes her head in his truck door.
While Hanger is watching pornography with Russell in their home, a Jehovah's Witness visits, and Hanger mauls and partially eats her while being cheered on by Russell. Later, John drops by, and reveals to Hanger that he has a plan to get revenge on Leroy for what he did to Rose. On his way out, John is approached by Foxy White, Leroy's girlfriend, who offers to help John kill Leroy. John turns down Foxy's offer, but says he will make Leroy suffer "a little extra" if Foxy watches over Hanger.
While Hanger is at work, John is captured by Leroy and a prostitute named Trashy, who disfigure him with a blow torch, and a hanger. Foxy finds John and tries to release him, but Leroy walks in on this, and shoots Foxy in the head. As that occurs, Russell and Hanger are drugged by Phil, a co-worker, who rapes them while wearing a Santa suit; at one point, Phil inserts his penis into Hanger's leaking colostomy. Russell and Hanger get their revenge on Phil at the junkyard, knocking him out, and placing him under a pile of garbage. Russell goes home and drinks tea made from used tampons, but after getting a call from Hanger, Russell goes to the junkyard, and finds Nicole (the owner's daughter) unconscious in her office, Hanger having knocked her out with Phil's drugs.
Russell takes Nicole's tampon, and she is later found by Leroy, who rapes her while she is unconscious, and threatens her into luring away Russell so Leroy can be alone with Hanger. Once he is in Nicole's office, Russell is seemingly killed by Leroy, who chokes him with one of Nicole's tampons. Outside, Hanger stomps Phil's head in, and is confronted by Leroy, but John (who was left for dead, but recovered and killed Trashy by shoving a douche up her nose) appears and calls Leroy out. Leroy and John fatally shoot each other, and a distraught Hanger runs off with the hysterical Nicole.

Tags: revenge, murder

Review:
Whoa mama!
Just like Ryan's past movies he seems to not have a problem with giving his actors full reign of their characters.
And when you have actors who aren't so hot at acting, it more than likely ends up being like this.A thought that popped in my head a few times while watching this was how close it came to becoming a porno.
Maybe think about it, eh?There aren't many film-makers out there that are as carefree and in love with the horror genre as Mr. Nicholson, and that is the sole reason I keep seeing his movies.
A creature feature or a big foot movie, but with the works.Hanger was a gross, sleazy, dirty flick that should have been a crazy fun time, but ended up being boring, unlikeable, and felt like it tried much too hard to be funny and shocking.
Basically this could guarantee some interesting 90 minutes for fans of Movies like Pulp Fiction/Boondock Saints and underground horror.
But what Nicholson delivers here qualifies for the Troma Catalog in one of the lowest drawers.The movie is set in the dirty red light district and revolves around a prostitute who gets a back alley abortion with a clothes-hanger by her pimp (is that guy supposed to be black or what...
Now Mr. Hanger meets his father (like most characters with serious prosthetic work on his face and especially nose) and they plot some rough revenge.
Funny thing is that this "plot" always tends to be dropped on the sidelines for some lame masturbation or gay sex jokes as well as ridiculous soft-core sequences of some meaningless chick (I don't get her deeper idea for the plot) working her snatch in her office.All this leads up to one of the most ridiculous shoot outs in movie history (let me guess....
Basically all you get is tasteless jokes about deformed retards (all those back alley hicks reminded me a lot of "Street Trash" yet "Hangers" stretches it much further), you get some guy collecting tampons and making tea out of it, a gay retard using hangers stoma for a fun ride, fart jokes, prosthetic dicks with cartoon "boing" samples, some killed prostitutes and a torture sequence with a blowtorch (Hmm, reminds me of something else) which is like many of the not so many gory moments in this movie plain ridiculous.
The way the scenes are bound together and especially the dialog come across like written by a retarded horny 16year old writing a script with his dick in his hand.Come on Mr. Nicholson...
Obviously trying to appeal to audiences who love all things sick and twisted, Hanger desperately tries to be offensive and controversial.
Especially after the directors previous film Gutterballs turned out to be so good..
I don't know how many Debbie Rochon movies I have seen, but there is always room for another one.This is the latest edition in Troma's catalog, and it even features Lloyd Kaufman.Most will be grossed out in the first 10 minutes after witnessing an abortion by coat-hanger.
Otherwise the movie would be over, as he seeks out the pimp who killed his mom (Rochon).This movie has all the trash you can imagine: cannibalism, freaks, smashed heads, blood, gore, and things too disgusting to mention..
Live Feed was a good gory movie, Gutterballs was better, so i was very excited to view Ryan new movie, Hanger.
4/10 for Hanger but all my support to Ryan Nicholson for always try to deliver the goods with extreme gore.
If I had seen that this movie had anything to do with the people that made Gutterball, I wouldn't have bothered to watch it.
It was a piece of B movie garbage that I would watch again and again.Now don't get me wrong here, if you're looking for a truly great movie, just forget about even looking at this film.
Chalk full of sex, violence, gore and for some reason, every man in this movie has a messed up face (which really grew on me).Even the good guys in this film are completely vile, so you can only imagine how disgusting the bad guys are.I vote a 9/10, simply for the fact I love the over the top dialog, grotesque characters, violence and gratuitous sex..
The whole thing comes off like a medieval allegorical play, with all the players in masks representing their roles.Overall, not as funny or interesting as "Gutterballs." It is much more extreme than "Run, Bitch, Run," which hardly rose to the level of exploitation anyway.
Pathetic SFX, coupled with actors who wouldn't even pass an audition for Big Brother, & topped off with a cameraman who can't even keep the "action" in screen OR focus provides one of the all time lows in movie making history!
Say what you like about indie director Ryan Nicholson, but the man is fearless when it comes to depicting on-screen depravity: there is nothing that he isn't afraid to show in the name of 'entertainment' (and if there is, then I'm not even sure if I want to see it).
Since his low budget debut short Torched seared itself into the minds of extreme horror fans with scenes of OTT gore and eye-watering genital mutilation, the man has assaulted our senses with his full-length torture-fest Live Feed and the 80s-flavoured, ten pin bowling themed rape-revenge/slasher Gutterballs.Now the director plunges even further into the depths of perversion and filth with Hanger, a sure contender for the title of 'most offensive trash movie ever', topping even the excesses of Troma's Terror Firmer and cult melt movie Street Trash.
I guess whether you see that as a recommendation or not depends entirely on your particular taste in trash.Hanger certainly starts as it means to go on, with a gut-wrenching scene featuring the forced abortion of a baby via coat-hanger, performed on soon-to-be-dead whore Rose (Debbie Rochon) by her sadistic pimp Leroy (Ronald Patrick Thompson).
Also working at the plant are the less-than-friendly gay rapist Phil (who cooks up a GHB topped pizza in order to roger Russell in the ass and Hanger in his stoma!), and Nicole (Candice Lewald), the incredibly hot office worker who likes nothing more than the odd-spot of impromptu masturbation (taking the film firmly into porn territory).
As our hideously scarred hero becomes accustomed to his new life, The John (who turns out to be Hanger's dad) plans revenge on Leroy and his skanky ho accomplices, a job which requires him to enlist the help of his son.Nicholson's most bizarre movie to date, Hanger doesn't seem to have fared too well with fans of his previous work, and as I write, not one of the 7 IMDb comments have rated it higher than a 3/10.
I can understand some of the backlash—the film is a departure in style for Nicholson, the flow of the narrative is kinda awkward, the absurd humour and extreme violence seems incongruous at times, and the ending is perhaps a little too abrupt—but despite these drawbacks, I still found Hanger to be a worthwhile experience.
Maybe it's the fact that I respect Nicholson's uncompromising, no-holds-barred approach; perhaps it's because, despite being so unashamedly stupid at times, the film still manages to shock when it matters; or maybe it could be that I'm just a bit wrong in the head: whatever the reason, I found this to be a satisfyingly silly and sick flick that succeeds in making the viewer feel dirty for having watched (always a 'positive' in my eyes), and one which I can see developing something of a cult following over time.I'm going to buck the trend and rate Hanger an unprecedented 6.5/10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb..
The director here apparently likes to declare his love for horror cinema now and again but sadly he hasn't a clue how to produce it, instead thinking that stringing together a bunch of (hopefully to him) offensive shots will pass as some kind of great horror art.
I'm not going to list the things that take place in Hanger, but I wasn't offended, rather I found the entire piece of excrement irritating to the extreme.
Rubber penises, full frontal soft porn, and some pretty bad special effects just aren't funny at all though, and I'm guessing by now my review is reading like some disgruntled Hollywood blockbuster lovers who stumbled upon the wrong type of movie and became appalled by what he saw.
I found Subconscious Cruelty as a movie enthralling, and I'm particularly mentioning this film as it's said the director of that set out to shock but (ironically) failed for a totally different reason.
Rose is a hooker who has become pregnant.Her abusive pimp Leroy decides to perform an abortion on her by using a coat hanger.But the baby doesn't die during horrible procedure.Eighteen years later Hanger gets a job and a apartment.With the help of The John they both plan to get a bloody revenge on Leroy."Hanger" is a dirty and exploitative indie horror flick directed by always reliable Ryan Nicholson.It's totally bad taste and politically incorrect.The atmosphere of "Hanger" is grubby and dirty and it resembles "Basket Case" or "Street Trash".The film is not as fun as "Gutterballs" and "Live Feed",but if you are a fan of utter cinematic smut and filth you need to see "Hanger".7 abortions out of 10..
Sure most people are going to hate this movie.
In today's realm of horror films, one director who I'm not a particularly big fan of is Ryan Nicholson.
A part of the newer generation so to speak, he's an effects man (whose worked on the infamous "August Underground" series) turned director whose movies seem to take a juvenile approach to shocking and offending people with nasty gore and all kinds of depraved behavior.
Case in point: "Hanger", which may be his worst effort at trying to offend viewers yet.The film starts with a pregnant prostitute named Rose (Debbie Rochon), who becomes a hooker (remember, that's what they become when they are dead-or at least the show "Archer" says so) and has said fetus aborted via wire hanger.
In actuality, the movie is essentially an excuse for Nicholson and his cast to get away with all kinds of gross and all around perverse behavior, which would be fine if it weren't akin to a kid putting on a geek show to shock and offend us.
Look, I'm all for shocking movies, but this tries way too hard to be shocking and all around disgusting, and it's clear that's all it has going for it.
I don't have time for a movie that has things like an grotesque, racist Asian stereotype, tampon fetishes, graphic masturbation, and plenty of rape, mud and nastiness and nothing else.
First of all I loved Ryan Nicholsons earlier film GUTTERBALLS, so I was eagerly anticipating HANGER.Now I have seen it, I did,nt rate it as much as GUTTERBALLS, but I still enjoyed HANGER, but it definitely is'nt for everybody.There is some pretty nasty stuff going on in this film, a coat hanger getting shoved up a vagina to remove an unborn baby!...Tampon tea!!!
to name but a few nasty treats.But seriously, it is'nt pleasant viewing but if you enjoyed GUTTERBALLS, I would say give it a try...I can't recommend it really, but I did like it myself - There are some funny moments in it as well, some quite good lines and the Chinese kid made me laugh too.My advice is rent it if you can, my wife bought my one for Xmas pressie and Im pleased with it, but as I already said it is difficult to recommend.7 Out Of 10 for me..
This wasn't supposed to be a "Feel Good" movie that you sit down with your wife and kids and watch.
If you didn't like the movie, you didn't have to watch it!Hanger does its job perfectly.
The story is good, and the events that take place in this movie, are well, I'll let you watch and decide for yourself!
However if you like Comedy horror spoof gore films, you should love this movie..
Hanger (2009) * (out of 4) Hardcore gore about a pimp who discovers that his prostitute is pregnant and when she refuses to have an abortion he decides to take care of the matter himself.
HANGER is a very disgusting film that is so vile that most people would be outraged just by hearing what's in the movie let alone actually being forced to watch it.
This film here features some pretty graphic, in-your-face material and this includes the opening where we see a hanger going into a woman and then (a fake woman used here) the baby being ripped out.
Is HANGER a good movie?
Is HANGER a good movie?
However, I must admit that if you're into this type of thing then I'm sure you're going to enjoy how depraved, shocking and vile it is.
Director Ryan Nicholson certainly isn't going to win any awards for the picture but he at least knows how to build up at atmosphere and it's clear he's not afraid to cross the line.
Hanger begins 18 years ago, with a pregnant prostitute named Rose (Rochon), who is given a homemade, unwanted abortion by her pimp.
I'm no expert, but if I was to make a movie, and I was fortunate enough to end up with Debbie Rochon, I might try and work around killing off the gorgeous one before the story even gets started.
The problem with the "It's so bad it's good" situation is too many film makers today are going for exactly that as if their predecessors originally wanted their art to be considered the worse film ever made.Not everyone can be Troma, and having the great Lloyd Kaufman make an awesome cameo in your movie is not going to get you there.
Then we see Leroy who is fed up with her not bringing in any money from her pregnancy.Next scene we she her with someone else and Leroy attacks her after he catch hers with the that other man, who had just dump her and he get rid of the baby with a hanger This movie is sick and twisted and not in good away, i do not want to see man trying to step a bloody pregnant lady,stomach even if see a prostitute (That was in the first seven minutes of movie) Then movie get even worse 18 Years later for some reason the child is now some kind of monster who goes after prostitute and kills them ?
Twisted rape scenes not even good death scenes like I said cheap movie with cheap make up and gore.
no one is safe from Hanger.It takes a very specific mindset to not only enjoy films like those of Ryan Nicholson, but even to stomach them.
To ease up the difficulty of some of these ideas, there is some outward humour, like B-movie legend Lloyd Kaufman (co-founder of Troma Films) as Melvina the Tranny.
Even some of the most hardcore horror fans may have to look away at some scenes.Even with the grotesque and depraved nature of the film, it does not feature the spark it requires to make it an overly worthwhile watch.
but, I was expecting something entertaining at least like his last film 'Gutterballs.' Even with all the disgusting gore, vicious violence, crazy characters, and nonstop nudity, the film really was a pretty tedious task to sit through.
The photography and audio of the movie are of an inferior quality making Hanger look very reminiscent to a Henenlotter vehicle, except less funny and more obnoxious.
That's right the concept and idea of the film is amazing.A lady of the night is pregnant and her pimp aborts the baby with a cloths hanger, but since she is already far enough long the baby is ripped out alive and thrown in a dumpster while his mother dies.
So after being raised on the streets as a disfigured freak he is out for revenge.See amazing concept, the DVD case has stuff of that nature on it which is why I bought it, but was I fooled.It's nothing like that, well a lady of the night is with child and her pimp does so and she does die but then he's raised buy a bum who treats him like trash, gives him to his father, the man who loved the lady of the night, and he's the one who goes for revenge not Hanger.No Hanger just gets a job, lives with an Asian guy, and kills for no reason.
Yeah that's right the guy we as an audience should be rooting for kills people for no reason.Every character in the film is a bad person and not really likable so who cares about them and the only character worth paying attention to is the Asian guy because he does say some funny things.It should be a grind-core, exploitation, gore-fest of a horror film but instead it plays like a horror comedy that is not a good film in either genre.You can skip it and live or see it and be mad it's not what you wanted.This is the type of film that needs remade by a real writer director not a SFX guy..
What a useless character.All that said, its strange, disturbing, and at times painful to watch, but sit through it, you'll look back and you'll like it a lot more once its over..
Her pimp becomes enraged that she isn't making him money and performs an impromptu abortion with a coat-hanger.
This includes crushing a hookers head open when she screams at his face, a Jehovah Witness who intrudes into their apartment, and Phil, a man who drugs and rapes both Hanger and Russell (the movie does not cover much up).
And that's the end.Like Gutterballs, this movie is very gory and the special effects are top notch.
Ryan Nicholson knows his audience and makes movies for them; they're exploitative, schlocky, violent, everything campy B horror/schlock should be.