Verdict
Summary
A sickening and nauseating piece of filth from Argentina, Scavenger is something no one on earth needs to see with its extremely graphic and prolonged scenes of sexual violence, but it does somehow manage to create a disgustingly realized hell scape of an apocalypse in its 75 minute run time.
Plot:
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, an organ harvester is taken prisoner and relentlessly abused, but when she escapes, she unleashes unholy vengeance on her captors.
Review:
With only vague memories of her youth before the world became a wasteland hell, Tisha (Sofia Lanaro) roams around in a muscle car killing cretins and harvesting their organs and selling them on the open market in shanty towns like Bartertown. Tisha takes a gig from an old woman that leads her straight into a hellish watering hole where she engages in a one-night stand with a stripper, but ends up chained in the basement of a marauder camp. Tisha is systematically raped, tortured, and degraded (in a scene that seemed to go on for at least an agonizing 10 minutes) by three or four different hideous men, and when she gets free of her bonds, she goes on a gory rampage to get her revenge. By the end of her odyssey she’ll have had her vengeance, but at a costly price.
A sickening and nauseating piece of filth from Argentina, Scavenger is something no one on earth needs to see with its extremely graphic and prolonged scenes of sexual violence, but it does somehow manage to create a disgustingly realized hell scape of an apocalypse in its 75 minute run time. With a constantly moving and shaking fish eye lens and grotesque characters – including the heroine who looks repulsive with blood smears all over her face and hands most of the time – the movie is bound to repel most viewers, including fans of the apocalyptic genre, which is confounding. Showcasing its centerpiece rape scene (there are flashbacks of graphic rape and disembowelment too) seems to be the movie’s only card to play, and so the only way to win this one is not to ante up. From directors Luciana Garraza and Eric Fleitas.
Cleopatra has just released a Blu-ray + soundtrack CD set of Scavenger, and the soundtrack comes with 15 sound tracks, while the Blu-ray comes with the trailer, an image slideshow, and Spanish and English audio options.
