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  • Starring: Chaos, Scar, The Lizard
  • Summary: A documentary about the secret world of "backyard wrestling" where amateurs attempt stunts and matches utilizing the most extreme weapons imaginable, all played out in a ring often made of barbed wire fencing.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 12
  3. Negative: 2 out of 12
  1. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Charles Martin
    100
    In short, this is an x-treme documentary, as riveting as a road accident and a lot more bloody. That this film might give other young people ideas is something that keeps me (and probably director Hough) awake at night.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    60
    Chances are you'll watch most of this documentary with both hands over your eyes, but as a window into a particular kind of insanity seizing kids in heartland America it's enthralling.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ed Halter
    30
    Though filled with violent smackdowns, slackjawed interviews, and bizarre characters, Hough's doc never rises above the level of first-year student project, hobbled by scattershot editing, badly written intertitles, and useless directorial voice-over.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. dfrooah
    4
    I felt like I was watching an extended scene from Gummo sans the superior editing. But because I couldn't tell myself it was fiction it was hard to finish.… Expand
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