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An Exercise In Nonsense

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Wow....I cannot think of a movie I wasted my time as much as this. I would compare it to a Serbian Film in that the "so-called violence" is so poorly acted/portrayed as to lose any shock value they were hoping for. To quote Sheldon on the Big Bang Theory "this movie fails on so many levels. Script.....was there even an attempt to have a coherent story; soundtrack......nice to see people with no musical talent can still find work; editing....beyond the worse; the only bright spot is the actress - to not burst out laughing when Leonard is "roughing her up" must have taken incredible willpower. If you want to see a movie that shows it could be done, see Martyrs. Avoid this. Still cannot figure out how so many great reviews are given this.

Scrapbooking, a hobby that has increased in popularity in recent years, is, according to Wikipedia, 'a method for preserving a legacy of written history in the form of photographs, printed media, and memorabilia contained in decorated albums'. In Scrapbook, a low budget indie horror from director Eric Stanze, serial-killer Leonard (Tommy Biondo) blends polaroids, news cuttings and handwritten journals from his victims to produce a detailed account of his career as a killer: a scrapbook twelve years in the making and a labour of love which he hopes will one day make him famous.Leonard has only one more victim to document until his project is complete: Clara (Emily Haack), a chubby bird with a very bad haircut. He subjects her to days upon days of degradation, rape and violence, whilst forcing her to add her comments to his sick journal. But Clara plans to survive her ordeal, and plays mind games with her captor, until, one day, she turns the tables on him and wreaks revenge.Now I've watched a fair amount of 'underground' horror in my time, and witnessed all sorts of celluloid depravity, but in my opinion Stanze's Scrapbook goes just that bit further than most in an effort to shock. A nasty, misogynistic catalogue of torture, it seems that this movie's purpose is to offend, and in that it definitely succeeds. Use it as a yardstick to measure your tolerance to disturbing imagery, but don't ever call it art.Biondo spends 95 minutes abusing Haack's character in every manner possible, with no detail spared by Stanze's camera. Haack, an 'actress' with obviously no shame, willingly degrades herself at every opportunity; exactly what makes someone want to perform such acts on film, I shall never know.I tried to view this film as an intense study of psychotic behaviour (ala Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer), but Biondi's Leonard is so OTT, he is hard to take seriously. I tried to view it as a hard-edged 'rape/revenge' movie, in which the viewers sense of satisfaction at witnessing the victim's ultimate retribution justifies earlier scenes of violence—but the payoff is too weak to qualify it as such. And its story and level of acting is not good enough to make it a truly gripping tale about survival against the odds. In the end, I accepted it for what it really is: an effectively repugnant little movie designed purely to illicit a reaction—good or bad—from those who watch it.

I've been looking forward to watching this for a while and i finally got round to it. At first i was a little unsure, thinking it might be sick for the sake of it, but i soon found myself gripped in the story, both my friend and I where shouting at the screen. The ending was a surprise, not what i expected, and fantastic non the less. I would warn against this film if you do not like horrific imagery as its VERY strong but the story line more than makes it watchable. I've seen sick films before where the darker imagery seemed pointless and just added for shock factor, but in this film it works with the story. My only crit was that there probably wasn't enough depth into the male character, i felt i was left with on a basic understanding of him and would have liked to know more. Other than that i adored the film and would recommend to those who like the darker side of film!

Scrapbook wasn't the easiest of films to watch but I can't say it was a bad film. It was very graphic a lot more than I expected. Most serial killer in films take their victims behind closed doors and leave it to your imagination for these kind of scenes. Its the best 'into the mind of a serial killer' film I've scene. The acting from Emily Haack was brilliant, it can't of been an easy role to play. The home movie style filming added to atmosphere of the film. It didn't need a big Hollywood if it had one it would not have been so gritty.I read a few of the reviews on here to help me write this one. Some people say its poor with WWE style violence and there was nothing shocking about it. I dread to think what these people watch with their popcorn.I thought it was shocking, not just because it wasn't quite what I expected but also because you know that these things happen in real life.