The Killing Floor Movie Review

A very suspensful film full of vicious kllings and crazy twists.

The killing floor movie review.

Audience reviews for the killing floor. The directorial debut of actor bill duke the killing floor is the true story of a black chicago labor leader whose efforts to help polish led labor unions integrate the city s stockyards during. Parents need to know that the killing floor is a 1984 drama in which an african american man moves to chicago during world war i finds work in the stockyards and takes part in the labor movement. The killing floor is about as close as you can come to the border between b movie and hollywood thriller.

The title refers to that special area in the chicago stockyards where the cattle are. That meaningful movements require all races to come together but the group in power white americans will forget that unity once. The killing floor directed by bill duke. If any of the cast or crew read this.

Image from the killing floor courtesy film movement film review. Available on june 19 at the virtual cinema pages of the brattle theatre the cabot street cinema and other film institutions. Duke made the killing floor for pbs and it definitely has a tv movie feel and approach to narration. Black migration from the deep south at the time of world war i as seen through the eyes of frank custer leake a sharecropper who comes to the promised.

While it lacks an aesthetic sheen it has a very important point of view. Without the multi million dollar budget. As a movie set in the years during and after world war i against a backdrop of labor tensions and the chicago race riot of 1919 racism is a central theme to the movie and as such the n word. First thing you hear in the killing floor is voiceover narration delivered by a black man in the south circa september 1917 right.

Don t pass up the killing floor on the mistaken notion that the film is a western shoot em up or cop drama. Jacob p super reviewer.