Hanger (2009)

"Hanger" is NOT a good movie. It is, in fact, repulsive and low budget and I dare recommend this but for a select few. There are problems galore. The acting is pretty substandard, the cinematography is less then stellar, and the plot is pretty thin. There are HUGE holes in this bad boy... Yet, it does have it's charm. There is a large does of humor to be found, alongside some grotesque imagery and a brave, if not poorly conceived, script. This is a splatter revenge flick with gumption and originality though it's window dressing is of the hand me down variety. There is a liberal amount of sexuality that serves little purpose beyond getting pre- pubescent teenage boys to watch it...so it has it's desperation as well. If your looking to round out your low budget, monster/revenge movie list then by all means look into it with a healthy amount of skepticism. If your looking for the next cult classic...there MIGHT be enough to give it credence. However if your looking for a movie to sustain the weight of it's shocking plot description you will be disappointed. It's a movie that 2 out of 10 will think was "alright".

Debbie Rochon!! Alright, now that I've got your attention, I'm gonna tell you about a modern Exploitation film from 2009 in which the legendary actress lowers herself enough into making what turns out to be a glorified cameo that I really had high hopes for. A film which I kinda consider a disappointment. Hanger. A film which obviously accomplishes everything it's trying to do, yet, i can't help but see it as a total drag. Hanger just ain't much fun. Is there really anything else that needs to be said about it? Lloyd Kaufman makes a brief appearance. That's pretty cool. Right? Anyway. Hanger begins 18 years ago, with a pregnant prostitute named Rose (Rochon), who is given a homemade, unwanted abortion by her pimp. That's right, with a hanger. Poor Rose dies, and the fetus is thrown into a dumpster. The end, right? Nope. The little fella, who would later earn the nickname 'hanger', would not only survive, but would emerge from the garbage. Fastforward 18 years, and the deformed Hanger is very unstable, and very, very capable of murder. As timid as the little fella may seem, all he really wants is gory revenge. Despite this underachievement of Exploitation, these guys at Plotdigger Films have a lot going for them. I mean, Gutterballs, as overrated as it might have been, is actually pretty good. But Hanger could have used a little more thought and development, which could have led to, I don't know, maybe a little comedy relief, just to take the edge off the complete and utter ferociousness of it all. You might as well just watch Slaughtered Vomit Dolls. If these guys fancy themselves as a Canadian Troma, they've got a ways to go. I'm no expert, but if I was to make a movie, and I was fortunate enough to end up with Debbie Rochon, I might try and work around killing off the gorgeous one before the story even gets started. But like I said, I'm no expert, and ya know what? Neither is Ryan Nicholson. Hanger ain't a terrible movie compared to a lot I've seen, but then again, it is pretty terrible compared to others I've seen. If you just don't care, and you have low standards for Exploitation, I guess it wouldn't hurt. 6/10

Say what you like about indie director Ryan Nicholson, but the man is fearless when it comes to depicting on-screen depravity: there is nothing that he isn't afraid to show in the name of 'entertainment' (and if there is, then I'm not even sure if I want to see it). Since his low budget debut short Torched seared itself into the minds of extreme horror fans with scenes of OTT gore and eye-watering genital mutilation, the man has assaulted our senses with his full-length torture-fest Live Feed and the 80s-flavoured, ten pin bowling themed rape-revenge/slasher Gutterballs.Now the director plunges even further into the depths of perversion and filth with Hanger, a sure contender for the title of 'most offensive trash movie ever', topping even the excesses of Troma's Terror Firmer and cult melt movie Street Trash. I guess whether you see that as a recommendation or not depends entirely on your particular taste in trash.Hanger certainly starts as it means to go on, with a gut-wrenching scene featuring the forced abortion of a baby via coat-hanger, performed on soon-to-be-dead whore Rose (Debbie Rochon) by her sadistic pimp Leroy (Ronald Patrick Thompson). Unflinchingly captured in extreme close up, the bloody foetus being ripped prematurely from the womb leaves no doubts about Nicholson's intentions: to push the boundaries of taste as far as possible. But this is only the beginning...Eighteen years after being saved from a dumpster by a vagrant, Rose's hideously disfigured son, 'Hanger' (Nathan Dashwood), is taken to a waste disposal plant, where he has been secured a job by one of his mother's regular 'johns' (Dan Ellis). Here Hanger meets ugly, sex mad, tampon-sniffing, Chinese co-worker Russell (a memorably quirky and hilarious performance by Wade Gibb), who quickly becomes his best pal. Also working at the plant are the less-than-friendly gay rapist Phil (who cooks up a GHB topped pizza in order to roger Russell in the ass and Hanger in his stoma!), and Nicole (Candice Lewald), the incredibly hot office worker who likes nothing more than the odd-spot of impromptu masturbation (taking the film firmly into porn territory). As our hideously scarred hero becomes accustomed to his new life, The John (who turns out to be Hanger's dad) plans revenge on Leroy and his skanky ho accomplices, a job which requires him to enlist the help of his son.Nicholson's most bizarre movie to date, Hanger doesn't seem to have fared too well with fans of his previous work, and as I write, not one of the 7 IMDb comments have rated it higher than a 3/10. I can understand some of the backlash—the film is a departure in style for Nicholson, the flow of the narrative is kinda awkward, the absurd humour and extreme violence seems incongruous at times, and the ending is perhaps a little too abrupt—but despite these drawbacks, I still found Hanger to be a worthwhile experience. Maybe it's the fact that I respect Nicholson's uncompromising, no-holds-barred approach; perhaps it's because, despite being so unashamedly stupid at times, the film still manages to shock when it matters; or maybe it could be that I'm just a bit wrong in the head: whatever the reason, I found this to be a satisfyingly silly and sick flick that succeeds in making the viewer feel dirty for having watched (always a 'positive' in my eyes), and one which I can see developing something of a cult following over time.I'm going to buck the trend and rate Hanger an unprecedented 6.5/10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.

This movie start of so bad, the acting is so bad. plot is sickThe movie start off from other horror movie, 3 prostitute are watching. one of there look like 62 and other one as got burnt mouth or something and Rose the main one who is pregnant. Then we see Leroy who is fed up with her not bringing in any money from her pregnancy.Next scene we she her with someone else and Leroy attacks her after he catch hers with the that other man, who had just dump her and he get rid of the baby with a hanger This movie is sick and twisted and not in good away, i do not want to see man trying to step a bloody pregnant lady,stomach even if see a prostitute (That was in the first seven minutes of movie) Then movie get even worse 18 Years later for some reason the child is now some kind of monster who goes after prostitute and kills them ? I could not take anymore of this rubbish so I turned it off 1/10 .