Bender

2016

Drama / History / Thriller / Western

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 29%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 29%
IMDb Rating 4.5/10 10 344 344

kansas, usa murder serial killer bloody benders

Plot summary

The unsettling true story of America's first serial-killing family. A troubled doctor searches for patients swallowed by the prairie and encounters the Benders, homesteaders trapped by a life of unspeakable sin.

Director

John Alexander Photo
John Alexander

Top cast

Buck Taylor Photo
Buck Taylor as Sheriff J.E. Stone
Bruce Davison Photo
Bruce Davison as Mayor Prentiss
Linda Purl Photo
Linda Purl as Mrs. Thomas
James Karen Photo
James Karen as Old Man Bender
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738.01 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 20 min
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1.34 GB
1920*802
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 20 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Roycebenton627 6 / 10

Camera Shots & Silence

Hitchcock Style!!! The horror that it's a true story is enough.
Reviewed by deadbull-95171 6 / 10

Coulda Woulda SHOUDA

I disagree with those who think it was badly cast. It was really well cast but these well chosen people could have done so much more. The story, a true one, that few have heard of, I didn't until I looked into after seeing this, is bizarre and remarkable and a true real life horror story.And i still liked it and it held my interest but the problem is the screenplay. A lot of implication and not much delivery. The movie is just itching to break into something but it's just too understated and presented as a sort of mystical narrative of struggling postbellum days in the Midwest. Literally.This movie took tonal lessons from the beautifully made Badlands with Sheen and Spacek from years ago. The odd poetic tone that fableizes, with narrative and a strange sound track. But that movie was artful and this is artsy.It is still worth watching though plodding and deliberate. It is presented as a murder/horror mystery, and that is what the real events were. The "Bloody Benders" were a migrating group that were never caught, but what they left behind was certainly real enough, and by all extant accounts, the written portraits, and some photos, I came to the notion that this really was well cast.Well, maybe it will get redone like so many things are, usually for the worse. I think I could write a better screenplay on this one. When I think of the horror/western Genre, the first thing that comes to mind is Bone Tomahawk, a rather poorly received movie I thought was excellent, if for no other reason, and compared to Bender, because it has strong dynamic acting and a straightforward story, however outlandish.This amazing true life tale deserves a better telling. And they could even use the same actors, just let them act, and tell it more dynamically and less mystically. Serve it up straight, no chaser.I give it a generous 6 for what it could have been with less lazy direction.Not wasted though if some one grabs this torch and runs with it.
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