Review: Mad Cowgirl

Posted by Horror Grinder on November 10, 2007

Review by BigBadWolfBoy

Crazy-ass Headscratchers. I don’t have a problem with movies that mess with my thought sponge. I don’t mind when a director asks a bit more from me than to simply watch a movie, understand exactly what everything means as it’s happening, and then promptly move on to the next film. I enjoy films that require some thought. As a matter of fact, some of my finest movie-going memories come from slapping myself a few days after watching a difficult movie and exclaiming (usually to the denizens of my local 7-11 near 3am) such gems as, “Sweet Jesus Christ in a cup! Of course a tiny porcelain doll hatches from a bird’s egg! It’s all so clear now!”

Gregory Hatanaka’s 2006 outing Mad Cowgirl, however, belongs to an annoying subgenre of the Headscratchers line that I find particularly tiresome, and that’s the “How Much Of This Is Real?” variety. I don’t have a lot of patience for movies that constantly beg the question “How Much Of This Is Real“, and that’s because few of them ever actually provide an answer. Again, I do not need entire movies handed to me on a plate with an indexed explanation, but I…

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