A Taste of Hell (1973)

Name: A Taste of Hell
Genre: Action, War, Drama
Released: 1974-11-20
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Rating: 5.1
Cast: John Garwood, William Smith, Liza Lorena, Roderick Paulate

PG | 90 min | Action, War, Drama

THEY FOUGHT SAVAGELY - for love of their country "A TASTE OF HELL" An explosive war epic depicting the heroic stand for patriotism from the hills down to the devastated countryside.

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31 July 1999 | warlover

A Candidate for Mystery Science Theatre 3000

A taste of hell, indeed! If hell is half as bad as this movie was, then I pray for any poor soul heading for Dante's Inferno!

In a nutshell, the script was non-existent, the plot, well there was actually no plot, and the fighting, well, you could tell this was a pathetic "B" Movie. There was no character development, even the slashing of a knife looked fake. The only reason I didn't turn this movie off after the first three minutes was in respect for the $ 1.07 I shelled out for this flop! The costumes looked, surprise surprise, like the seventies and not like WWII 1942. The movie lacked any dénouement though I will give it the credit of having a climax. All in all, as I said in my title, this would truly be a knee slapper on Mystery Science Theatre 3000!

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Trivia

A clip of this movie (the decapitation scene) was showed in the Norwegian TV-debate program "På Sparket" on 11 December 1980. This program was the start of the long and heated debate about so called video-nasties (videovold) in Norway. The movie was almost labeled as a video-nasty among with movies like "Texas chainsaw massacre", "The Exterminator", "Cannibal holocaust" etc.

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In the climactic battle scene, Japanese soldiers are shown firing the infamously misnamed Japanese "knee mortar" with the buttplate placed against their knee. This would've resulted in a broken leg. Allied soldiers mistakenly believed that this mortar was fired from the knee because of the curvature of the buttplate.