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Hell Hath No Fury has a guy (Aidan Simpson) sitting in a diner waiting for his girlfriend (Nicole Hancock) when a cowboy looking guy (Donny James Lucas) invites himself to join him. They begin to chat & the cowboy looking guy starts to tell him some stories...

First up is the tale of two friends who fall foul of a bit of possession & revenge...

Then it's the story of a female police officer who is raped by a guy but she manages to get her gruesome own back using hypnosis...

Then it's a guy who gets a visit from his future self for reasons I'm not sure about...

Finally it's the tale of a nurse named Deanna (Michelle Boback) who is raped twice within a day but she manages to turn the tables on one of her unfortunate attackers & he soon realises that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned...

Directed by Rob Carpenter, Vince D'Amato, Ryan Nicholson & Peter Speers who all have various other credits including the script, producer, editing etc. I personally thought Hell Hath No Fury is a pretty poor low budget anthology that didn't particularly impress me. The script obviously bases it's four stories & the wraparound segment on the premise of female revenge & the first story is just poor, the second story could have been quite effective had the writing been better since it has a fairly neat little twist while the third is absolutely terrible & seemingly pointless & the fourth tale is easily the best as it sports some outrageous scenes of a demented woman going ape after being raped twice & some leg crossing genital torture plus she hires a guy to rape her male attacker in a suitably sleazy moment. However there's plenty here to dislike, the way it's written with all sorts of flashbacks, dreams & flash-forwards that confuse the story & the narrative, why weren't the stories just told in proper chronological order rather than jumping around all over the place besides being able to reuse the same footage more than once? They would have been far more effective because as it is they're a bit of a jumbled mess. Apart from the second story they all lack good twists & apart from the fourth they lack exploitation elements, overall not a good anthology as three of the four stories are too weak & at almost 2 hours long it outstays it's welcome.

I presume each of the four credited directors handled one of the stories & none of them do a particularly good job, it's very cheap looking & it looks like it was shot on a digital camcorder. There's plenty of shaky hand-held shots & lots of other annoying editing/camera tricks that look terrible. There are a few decent gore scenes, there's some scissors in someone head, someone has their head sliced off with a circular saw & a teeth clenching torture scene during the fourth story where a woman jerks a rapist off so he gets an erection & then proceeds to stick syringes in his penis & burns it with a blow torch all in graphic detail, ouch, ouch, ouch.

Technically the film is poor, it's not much better than a home film to be honest. The acting is predictably poor.

Hell Hath No Fury doesn't quite work, the idea is OK but the stories are too predictable & only the fourth tale provides any real entertainment or exploitation value which is why I'm giving it four stars out of ten. Not a film I can recommend but that torture scene is certainly memorable, just a shame about the rest of the film really.

"Hell Hath No Fury" is a extreme, no-holds barred, erotic-horror anthology brought to us by the makers of "Vampires Vs. Zombies", and "Heads Are Gonna Roll." While it lives up to its gratuitous promise of extreme gore and loads of nudity, that's about all it has going for it, sadly.

The film opens with a wraparound of two men sitting in a diner swapping horror stories of scorned women, back and forth.

Story one tells us of a man who has a one night stand with a woman, and wakes up in the morning to discover that he has been tied to the bed because the woman is afraid he will leave her. She finds out that he is married, which leads them to argue, and then she leaves to get a pair of scissors to cut him loose. In a strange twist that I honestly did not expect, his jealous wife drops in and brutally murders both her husband and the woman. This story was actually pretty decent, and to the point. The acting was well-done, and the ending was pretty gruesome.

Story 2 was just absolutely confusing, but I think I got it. It opens with the police investigating a man's apparent "suicide." It turns out the female cop (who I think is a hypnotist?) was raped by this man, and she gets her revenge by using hypnosis to get him to kill himself. Not only was this story confusing, it was also just downright disgusting and disturbing. The scene where this man is raping her, he shoots her in the leg, and then has sex with the hole caused by the gunshot!!! I found this to be in absolutely poor taste. Just downright unnecessary! Not only is this story poor just for those reasons. The sound is also pretty bad. It was difficult to understand what the characters were saying most of the time.

Story 3 just did not make any sense, and it felt like it was thrown in at the last minute, as it plays out quite differently than the others, and serves no real purpose. This is possibly due to increase the running. But I don't see why seeing how the movie is over an hour and 40 minutes! Anyhow, story 3 is about a man being visited by his future self, and is told that his girlfriend will be breaking up with him soon due to his infidelities. The ending features his past or present self, (not sure here) along with him, and his future self, and his girlfriend as his past self (?) bringing another woman home. This leads to his girlfriend breaking up with him. This one, unlike the other stories seems out of place because there is no violence in this one.

Story 4 is easily the best and most disturbing story out of the bunch. It opens with a woman leaving her apartment to go to work, when she is attacked and raped by a masked assailant. This ultimately leads to a descent into madness, when she captures her attacker and turns the tables on him as well as any other man who scorns her. What made this story so powerful was the performance of the lead actress. She really understood the character. She showed no remorse when getting her revenge against those who hurt her. Another reason this was one the best was because the violence and gore was disturbing but perfectly executed. For example, the scene with the hypodermic syringes that she sticks in a certain spot, and then uses a blow torch on that same spot as means to torture her rapist.

The wraparound concludes with one of the men telling the stories receiving his "just desserts" for cheating on his wife.

Overall, "Hell Hath No Fury" is a decent rape revenge, female-empowerment horror anthology. Sadly, it's too all over the place, and poorly executed (excluding the 4th story) to be taken too seriously. Maybe that's what the filmmakers' intentions were, I don't know. But I do know it could have been much, much better if more attention to detail had been provided. However, it's still decent enough for fans of exploitation horror. Just ultimately forgettable.

I first heard about this film last week while listening to a 2006 edition of Dead Pit Radio. They reviewed it and jerked off the special effects guy damn good. I found it on amazon for six dollars. Four days later I have it, I watched it, and now have this to say about it: I'm not too big into anthology movies. There are some good ones out there so don't let this film tell you any different. I enjoy the rape revenge films a lot. I am a huge of fan of "Last House on the Left" and "I spit on your Grave". The stories were good, but the wrap around story was terrible. It was really lame and didn't pull me in at all.

The acting is only bad because the director seems to be into 'being hip'. He picked 'hip' you actors and actresses for this film and it shows. This is not attacking the talent that any of these young up and comers at all. It just hurts the image of the film. There is a lot of nudity but it actually works since it deals with violent sex acts.

The special effects only shine on the segment called "Torched" with the blow torch on male genitalia that has been stuck with needles. The rest are pretty boring.

Overall it's a decent attempt. Rent or buy it cheap somewhere.