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Mad Cowgirl (2006)

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Reviews Counted:12

Fresh:4

Rotten:8

Average Rating:5.9/10

Runtime: 89 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: Sarah Lassez (NOWHERE, THE BLACKOUT, UNTIL THE NIGHT) delivers a star-making performance as Therese, an ass-kicking health inspector with a failed marriage, an on-going affair with a creepy... Sarah Lassez (NOWHERE, THE BLACKOUT, UNTIL THE NIGHT) delivers a star-making performance as Therese, an ass-kicking health inspector with a failed marriage, an on-going affair with a creepy televangelist, nymphomania, and an obsession with old kung-fu movies. Further complicating her life is a very questionable relationship with her brother Thierry (James Duval from THE DOOM GENERATION and DONNIE DARKO), a meat importer who may (or may not) have infected her with mad cow disease. MAD COWGIRL is practically impossible to describe, but it's a Narrative - Experimental - Art - Comedy - Horror - Tragedy - Kung Fu epic that features multiple languages, a little hardcore porn, a flying guillotine, the old ultraviolence and Walter Koenig (Cmdr. Pavel Chekov) as a slimy sex-addicted preacher. Great Scott! It could also be described as a film about a woman who is dying of a brain disorder, and her surreal journey which descends into violence; or perhaps, it's about a woman who hates her job, and the men in her life, so she is driven to kill the Ten Tigers From Kwangtung. [synopsis from the SF IndieFest program notes] [More]

Starring: Sarah Lassez, James Duval, Devon Odessa, Walter Koenig

Starring: Sarah Lassez, James Duval, Devon Odessa, Walter Koenig, Vic Chao, Christo Dimassis, Linton Semage

Director: Gregory Hatanaka

Director: Gregory Hatanaka
Screenwriter: Gregory Hatanaka
Studio: Epoch Entertainment

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Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
03/26/09
Dennis Harvey
Dennis Harvey
Variety
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Fiercely personal and unique.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
07/23/07
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

Endlessly entertaining, though not recommended for anyone uncomfortable with soft porn, eroticized violence or graphically-depicted slaughter.

Full Review Source: EURWeb | comment Comment
01/12/07
Kam Williams
Kam Williams
EURWeb

This indulgently puerile waste of time plows ahead with pointless mayhem masquerading as 'art.'

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
10/06/06
Jeff Shannon
Jeff Shannon
Seattle Times

It gives screenwriter-director Gregory Hatanaka an excuse for a lot of scene jumping -- and a chance to make the case for adopting a vegan diet.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
10/05/06
Michael Esposito
Michael Esposito
Chicago Tribune

Absurd, dirty, powerful and disturbingly hilarious.

Full Review Source: ÜberCiné | comment Comment
07/24/06
Gregory Weinkauf
Gregory Weinkauf
ÜberCiné

There's a lot happening here, perhaps too much.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
07/20/06
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post

Mad Cowgirl is an underground movie with little sense of grounding, and lots of a multicultural weirdness and inchoate meat metaphors.

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07/19/06
Nathan Lee
Nathan Lee
New York Times
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Slick and often incomprehensible, it certainly gives you your money's worth, if blood, gore and blasphemy are what you're buying.

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07/19/06
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

It's safe to say there will not be another movie this year like Mad Cowgirl. Whether that's a good or bad thing depends on your tolerance for copious bloodletting, hardcore pornography, and C-SPAN.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
07/18/06
Matt Singer
Matt Singer
Village Voice

This gonzo mashup of romantic comedy, political paranoia, and B-movie adulation is more confounding than thrilling.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
07/05/06
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

An orgy of red meat and confused filmmaking

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
03/01/06
Brian Mckay
Brian Mckay
eFilmCritic.com

Theaters showing this should install seatbelts, because audiences are in for the ultimate wild ride.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/01/05
Phil Hall
Phil Hall
Film Threat
 
 
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