The Killing Floor Movie Review

A very suspensful film full of vicious kllings and crazy twists.

The killing floor movie review.

Bill duke s directorial debut is ripe for the classroom tv wheel in late in the semester. Available on june 19 at the virtual cinema pages of the brattle theatre the cabot street cinema and other film institutions. Don t pass up the killing floor on the mistaken notion that the film is a western shoot em up or cop drama. Jacob p super reviewer.

If any of the cast or crew read this. The killing floor is about as close as you can come to the border between b movie and hollywood thriller. Image from the killing floor courtesy film movement film review. The killing floor directed by bill duke.

Us 1984 118 minutes. That meaningful movements require all races to come together but the group in power white americans will forget that unity once. The directorial debut of actor bill duke the killing floor is the true story of a black chicago labor leader whose efforts to help polish led labor unions integrate the city s stockyards during. While it lacks an aesthetic sheen it has a very important point of view.

I thought this film was great. As a movie set in the years during and after world war i against a backdrop of labor tensions and the chicago race riot of 1919 racism is a central theme to the movie and as such the n word. The title refers to that special area in the chicago stockyards where the cattle are. Black migration from the deep south at the time of world war i as seen through the eyes of frank custer leake a sharecropper who comes to the promised.

Without the multi million dollar budget. Parents need to know that the killing floor is a 1984 drama in which an african american man moves to chicago during world war i finds work in the stockyards and takes part in the labor movement.