![]() He "purchased" her from an "amoral warlock" and "she has a spell on her that makes her obedient to orders." To increase his own magical abilities, Rance is invited to engage in various sexual behaviors with Sill. To take a glaring example, Rance has a magic-using "assistant" named Sill Plain, who is actually a slave. ![]() There's no reason to play this game except to be entertained by the sight of sadism and suffering. And like I Spit on Your Grave, it's made artlessly. I was prepared to not care about that if the gameplay was any good. Going into Rance, I knew that it was an eroge game and that there would be sex and nudity. The key line in Ebert's short review comes towards the end: "I have never condemned the use of violence in films if I felt the filmmakers had an artistic reason for employing it." His condemnation of the film is not so much that it contains rape and murder-after all, he gave Sudden Impact three stars three years later-so much as that "it is made artlessly.there is no reason to see this movie except to be entertained by the sight of sadism and suffering." ![]() Ebert's review describes his disgust with both the film and the audience members who were hooting and commenting at the screening he attended. It's a film about four men who rape a woman three times, and the woman gets revenge by killing all of them one by one. I've never seen the film, but I know enough from Ebert's review that I would never want to. ![]() In trying to figure out how I was going to talk about Rance, I was reminded of Roger Ebert's 1980 review of I Spit on Your Grave. ![]()
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