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Blood Simple | 
 enlarge | Actors: Van Brooks, William Creamer, Raquel Gavia, John Getz, Nancy Ginger
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  121 reviews
Sales Rank: 3551
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 96
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: MGMDM111285D
UPC: 883904112853
EAN: 0883904112853
ASIN: B001B1UO7G
Theatrical Release Date: 1984
Release Date: September 16, 2008
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Product Description
A man hires a sleazy private eye to have his wife & her lover killed byt the killer decides that murdering the husband would be the perfect crime instead. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 09/16/2008 Starring: M Emmett Walsh Dan Hedaya Run time: 96 minutes Rating: R
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The debut film of director Joel Coen and his brother-producer Ethan Coen, 1983's Blood Simple is grisly comic noir that marries the feverish toughness of pulp thrillers with the ghoulishness of even pulpier horror. (Imagine the novels of Jim Thompson somehow fused with the comic tabloid Weird Tales, and you get the idea.) The story concerns a Texas bar owner (Dan Hedaya) who hires a seedy private detective (M. Emmett Walsh) to follow his cheating wife (Frances McDormand in her first film appearance), and then kill her and her lover (John Getz). The gumshoe turns the tables on his client, and suddenly a bad situation gets much, much worse, with some violent goings-on that are as elemental as they are shocking. (A scene in which a character who has been buried alive suddenly emerges from his own grave instantly becomes an archetypal nightmare.) Shot by Barry Sonnenfeld before he became an A-list director in Hollywood, Blood Simple established the hyperreal look and feel of the Coens' productions (undoubtedly inspired a bit by filmmaker Sam Raimi, whose The Evil Dead had just been coedited by Joel). Sections of the film have proved to be an endurance test for art-house movie fans, particularly an extended climax that involves one shock after another but ends with a laugh at the absurdity of criminal ambition. This is definitely one of the triumphs of the 1980s and the American independent film scene in general. --Tom Keogh
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 2.5 stars out of 4 January 3, 2009
The Bottom Line:
A cleverly-plotted neo-noir, Blood Simple is hampered by the fact that only Emmett Walsh shows any charisma--the lead couple is so wooden that the audience is hard-pressed to care a hoot about them; it's not a bad movie, but it's not very special either.
 The first masterpiece by the Coen brothers November 14, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This early 1980s film started the Coen brothers journey into one of the best filmmaking teams ever.
I have been wanting to see this movie for a long time and was happy I landed on this copy. While it is a good transfer to DVD, some of the others who commented on this said many scenes were deleted from the original. Since it was my first time to view this, I loved it and was totally impressed, now I want to see the original in its entirety.
The Coen brothers always add a sense of "weirdness" to their films, making them totally unique. This one will keep you interested also. I rate this my third favorite Coen brothers film behind No Country for Old Men and Fargo.
The movie has its gore and very well done.
Briefly, a Texas bar owner, Marty (Dan Hedaya) suspects his wife, Aby (Frances McDormand) is cheating on him and hires a seedy private detective (M. Emmett Walsh) to follow her. Aby is discovered to be playing around with one of Marty's employees, Ray (John Getz). After getting this news, he rehires the seedy gumshoe to kill his wife and her lover. The detective turns on Marty and the gore and horror commence.
If you like Coen brothers' films, you'll love this one, if you like horror, gore and suspense this is definitely for you, and they always add a bit of comedy to their films, enjoy...Now I want to see the original copy without all the deleted scenes.
 It all began with this little movie from the Brothers Coen October 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Geniuses have to begin somewhere, and Blood Simple happens to be the first film by Joel and Ethan Coen, the team that later produced "Raising Arizona", "Fargo" and "No Country For Old Men".
Unknown and without much in the way of budget, the Coens give us the best film noir since movies began being made in color. The film is bloody, indeed, but not for a moment simple.
Dan Hedaya plays Julian Marty, a bar owner who's doing pretty good for himself, except that his wife, played by Frances McDormand in her film debut, is having an affair with bartender Ray, played by John Getz. Marty hires a detective, played by M. Emmett Walsh, to follow the adulterous couple.
In typical Coen fashion, things go wrong. Not a little fly in the ointment. No, we're talking completely over the top, whole-hog wrong.
Like the Coen films that follow, there's a streak of humor that runs through this dark tale, and like the later films, there is violence and not just "bang-bang, you're dead" violence.
The characters criss-cross and double-cross and the story keeps folding back in on itself, like my grandmother's biscuit batter. The result is just as good as grandma's biscuits, and that's saying something.
Not simply good for "Coen Completionists", "Blood Simple" is a ripping good tale, but not for the faint of heart.
What a Treat! October 18, 2008
The Coens pack a lot of goin's-on into this clever murder for hire/love story/comedy/thriller that is both brutal and darkly humorous at the same time. Quirky and riveting. One of their best.
The electrifying first film from the Coen's September 25, 2008
Before No Country For Old Men, before The Big Lebowski, and before Fargo; Joel and Ethan Coen crafted this homage to the crime-noir. Blood Simple stars Dan Hedaya as a sleezy bar owner who plots to have his cheating wife (Frances McDormand in her screen debut) and his bartender (John Getz) with whom she is having an affair murdered. Things don't quite go as planned however when the hitman he hires (M. Emmet Walsh) turns the tables, and things begin to spiral out of control for everyone involved. Simply speaking, Blood Simple is a riveting ride with plenty of atmosphere and even some unnerving moments that seem straight out of a horror flick, and for it's entire running time will keep you glued to the screen. It isn't as sophisticated or well-crafted as their later works would be, but there isn't any denying that Blood Simple didn't set the stage for the greatness from the Coen brothers to come.
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