Leofwine_draca
DEAR GOD NO! is a straight-out homage to the grindhouse flicks of the 1970s; in particular it seems to be a cross between THE EVIL DEAD and a random biker movie. Instead of being a real film, this is an ultra low budget production packed to the brim with outrageously cheesy gore effects, depraved humour, and female nudity.I found it repulsive in the extreme, but not for the reasons you'd think. The exploitation elements are all well and good, but it's the script that truly repulsed me. It's dumb beyond belief, full of repetitive cursing and nothing else. The characters are portrayed as the stupidest people imaginable, and despite the presence of a large gang of bikers there are no individuals here - they're all a bland, faceless group.The plot is non-existent and only serves to link the various exploitation sequences. The degradation of women plays a pivotal role, with the female roles limited to monsters, strippers, or victims. Sleaziness hangs over the whole production, and as a whole this is the type of film that nobody in their right mind could enjoy. Rodriguez's PLANET TERROR is still my favourite of the grindhouse tributes in existence and in comparison this is nothing, it wasn't even worth making a film.
BA_Harrison
It was fun for a while, but now I'm getting rather tired of the fad for 'grindhouse' movies, which see directors deliberately striving to replicate the flagrant content and gritty style of 70s and 80s exploitation films. They may boast memorable titles and cool retro poster art, but they rarely prove to be any cop, their grungy affectations and knowing outrageousness being poor substitutes for real talent.The latest effort to proudly fly the 'grindhouse' flag is 'Dear God No!', a violent biker flick from writer/director James Bickert, who is so intent on achieving his desired aesthetic and meeting his quota of bad taste and debauchery (thereby ensuring marketability) that he seems to forget about trying to make a decent film.The most disagreeable aspects of the film are not the sex and violence—after all, those who willingly watch this type of film expect, nay DEMAND such excess—but rather the acting, script and direction. Performances range from the bad to the diabolical, the plot is all over the place, and Bickert's visuals display little in the way of originality (unless lingering on a stripper for so long that it actually becomes boring counts).My rating: a generous 4.5 out of 10 just for the OTT splatter and rampant sleaze—file somewhere between equally disappointing 'grindhouse' efforts 'Run! Bitch Run! and Nude Nuns With Big Guns.
billcr12
It is what is, and Dear God No isn't Sunday morning sermonette. The opening few minutes are filled with bloody carnage at the hands of some very nasty looking bikers in leather jackets riding Harleys. Murder and mayhem are practiced quite efficiently by the easy riders.Switch to a house in the woods occupied by a science professor and his teenage daughter who carries a carcass to a padlocked basement. We then visit a strip bar with unattractive dancers; one even wearing a Richard Nixon mask. Miss Nixon is very handy with a Thompson submachine gun. The gang enjoy a short and unpleasant stay at the club.Meanwhile, the prof is researching some sort of creature living nearby and two of his college students stop by for a friendly visit. Uh oh, can you say home invasion; here come the hell's angels and it's party time for Mr. science and his offspring. It turns Charles Manson for a while, and beware of a reenactment of an urban legend based on Sharon Tate's killing in 1969; the infamous Helter Skelter case.Now for a special appearance by Bigfoot in a pay back mode for all the bad deeds by the iron horse invaders. Dear God No is a low budget, badly acted and yet funny and entertaining, bloody good time.
zanty
All I can say is, this movie from the opening scenes is awful. The acting is bad, and, the director/writer seems to get off on the idea of murdering/exploiting women in this movie. Like, for example, the first scene, where the bikers wake up after an orgy of killing and raping the night before. One Biker is repeatedly kicking a dead woman's genitals, whilst the other one takes fun 'mashing up' the body of another with his motorbike. I am a fan of subversive and different movies, and, am into the 'house of 1000 corpses' style of film, but i'm sorry, this film is nowhere near that. It seems the Director wanted to get the Tarantino 'grindhouse' feel but the film doesn't come anywhere near it, and, at the end of the day, people are responsible for the images they portray and the films they produce. You don't need to show mindless murder and rape in abundance to portray 'bad-ass' characters, unless you're getting off on it, or you forget what the movie is about. I think that's the case here, as, in my opinion, this is a truly awful movie.