The Crush

THE MOVIE ITSELF: The Crush is a solid movie. It's quite an excellent psychotic thriller. It's a slow burn that is paced with believability. The thrills both intrigue and shock the viewer. Alicia Silverstone is beyond excellent and perfectly captures the heart and mind of a psychotic teen driven by emotion and imbalance all mixed with a special dichotomy of juvenility and maturity. I think Cary Elwes is great in the movie too. He doesn't over play or under play his role. We see the story through his eyes and he creates a convincing ordinary guy caught up in something deeper than he could imagine. The only thing I don't like about the movie is Elwes' accent. It sounds part Southern and part British. At certain moments it will move from a normal to one of the other 2 oddities. It still doesn't affect how good the movie is. And even though it is unusual it is kind of interesting. THE BLU RAY ITSELF: I love Shout Factory and all the work they do to bring cult movies back to life. There is an "issue" with the audio in this film. But it only bothered me in 5.1 surround sound. Watching it in 2.0 was fine. And I enjoy The Crush so much that the audio didn't affect the film for me. The video quality of the Blu Ray is excellent. It is sharp and pops the colors like the DVD never could. The extras are slim (which is kind of a let down because Shout Factory has managed to do amazing extras for other films) but a few extras are better than none. I would have enjoyed an interview with Alicia Silverstone or Cary Elwes. But it's for.the movie itself that I purchased the Blu Ray, not the extras. FINAL OPINION: All in all The Crush is a well crafted thriller evoking the psychosis of an insane girl whose false reality is more powerful than adult reality itself. Once we discover what our "hero" is really up against with this evil teenage creature it sends disturbing ripples through the whole film. We are swimming in dark water that is filled with a diabolical pubescent female shark. The viewer starts looking for any movement beneath the surface because we don't know when or how those dangerous teeth will strike again. That cold dark water will soon be foaming with red hot blood. Just when you thought it was safe to rent a guest house... THE CRUSH. Bwahahahaha...

This is a fun and entertaining movie about a relationship between a teen and a single adult border who rents a room. Her advances are initially accepted (though not encouraged) and then as she recognizes he’s got a mature women as a girlfriend, hell breaks loose. Alicia Silverstone plays seductive and reactionary in this role. The movie is done well, but certainly a ficticiuos scenario. Having this on Laser Disc, I upgraded to BluRay because the movie was fun.

This was a great movie for Alicia Silverstone's feature film! I think she was about 17 @ the time (she played a 14 year old ) but played the role really well in all her childish & immaturity parts, she is an excellent actress! Cary Elwes was also excellent in this movie. I never knew he was English.. Overall, Alicia is basically obsessed with Cary & she goes crazy to try to get his girlfriend out of the picture thinking that she can have him herself.. I thought the whole movie was done excellent, no boring parts.. I've watched it at least twice.. A+

"The Crush" was released theatrically on April 2, 1993 grossing 13.6 million against a production budget of 6 million. It was one of many films that were released in the wake of "Poison Ivy" from 1992 which starred a 16 year old Drew Barrymore seducing Tom Skerrit's character. "The Crush" stars a 15 year old Alicia Silverstone attempting to seduce a much older man played by Cary Elwes. Both films were more than a bit controversial at the time due to the perceived sexual exploitation of actresses who were each underage at the time the films were made. Well, I can't really argue with that as these movies were made purely to be sleazy exploitation with erotic elements involving attractive young (i.e. underage) actresses. I was 18 years old when "The Crush" originally came out which I saw in a theater and quickly became an Alicia Silvertone fan as she really made quite an impression on me. She is very sexy in this film. The movie itself while objectively not a great movie still manages to entertain due in part to the knowing way the camera leers at Alicia's face and body which adds to the morally objectionable material in pursuit of exploitative artistic gains. (There is a brief bit of nudity involving Alicia's character in the film that was done with a body double by the way.) Definitely not high art by any means and morally objectionable, which is what makes the film such sleazy fun. Scream Factory brought "The Crush" to bluray back in 2016 in a nice edition featuring a solid anamorphic widescreen transfer and crisp audio. Extras are as follows: Audio Commentary With Writer/Director Alan Shapiro The Doting Father – An Interview With Kurtwood Smith Stung By Love – An Interview With Actress Jennifer Rubin Theatrical Trailer TV Spot "The Crush" is required viewing for fans of the lovely 90's icon Alicia Silverstone as well as fans of sleazy erotic thrillers from that era. Recommended!

The DVD arrived on time.

Great movie came in perfect condition haven’t seen it in so long so was excited when I got it

Love the movie. Showed up fast. The case and disc are in new condition.

Buena película y el disco funcionó perfecto. Imagen y audio bien. No tiene audio ni subtítulos en español.

Eine Thriller-Perle aus den 90ern die es leider mal wieder nicht in HD nach Deutschland geschafft hat. Keine DVD, keine Blu-Ray und sogar die VHS ist so gut wie unmöglich zu bekommen. Glücklicherweise gibt es die spanische Blu Ray, auch wenn man hier leider auf deutschen Ton verzichten muss.

AMAZON DOVREBBE IMPEDIRE CHE DVD IN EDIZIONE STATI UNITI VENGANO VENDUTI IN EUROPA,PER IL MOTIVO CHE I LETTORI DVD EUROPEI NON LEGGONO TALI PRODOTTI !!!!!! HO DATO 1 STELLA PERCHE' NON ERA POSSIBILE DARE ZERO!!!!!

Hatte in damals auf VHS Zuhause. Der Film hat mir schon immer gefallen schade das er bei uns nie auf DVD oder Blu-ray gekommen ist. Diese Blu-ray hat keine Deutsche Tonspur nur auf Englisch oder Spanische Tonspur.