Bruiser
Short description
Henry Creedlow is a man who has spent years doing what others expect of him, absorbing mistreatment from a boss who belittles him, a wife who betrays him and a friend and business partner who cheats him. One morning he finds his face gone, replaced by a smooth white mask he cannot remove. Stripped of the identity he sacrificed to fit in, he stops holding back and sets out to settle accounts with everyone who made his life miserable.
George A. Romero directed and wrote the film, the eleventh of the fourteen features he made in chronological order, arriving between The Dark Half in 1993 and Land of the Dead in 2005. Jason Flemyng plays Henry, with Peter Stormare, Leslie Hope, Nina Garbiras, Andrew Tarbet and Tom Atkins among the twenty credited cast members. Ben Barenholtz and Peter Grunwald produced the Canada-United States-France co-production, made for about 5 million dollars.
The film drew modest audience scores of 5.3 on IMDb from roughly 6,900 votes and 5.5 on TMDB from around 150 votes. A critics' rating of 5.5 from nine reviews sits close to those audience figures, suggesting a similar overall assessment. Released in 2000, it remains one of the lesser-seen entries in Romero's filmography.
What's left behind the scenes
- This is the first film by George A. Romero not to be shot near his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
- The horror-punk band Misfits from New Jersey appeared in the film. They performed two songs from their album “Famous Monsters”: Descending Angel and Scream, and also wrote two songs specifically for the film — Bruiser and Fiend Without a Face.
- George A. Romero directed a music video for the Misfits’ song Scream, and the only thing he wanted as a fee was for them to appear in the film “Bully” (2000) and write a couple of songs for it.
- According to George A. Romero and his wife, Christine Forest, in the commentary on the DVD of “Dawn of the Dead” (1978), the distributors of “Bully” (2000) presented it as a horror film. But both Romero and Forest felt that it was not just a horror film, but more of a story about a man going through difficult times in life.
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