Is it like Cannibal Holocaust? No. It is NOT like Cannibal Holocaust. There's minimal gore, no nudity and after a promising start it turns into Tarzan.
I'm not a huge Zombie fan and never seen a Greek Zombie I've but this is just a whole lotta fun. Not quite Shaun of the Dead but it's always nice to see actual characters instead of actors biding their time before they're killed.
Rape/revenge movies aren't supposed to be enjoyable. And this is not enjoyable but it's a great piece of film making and a great addition to the genre. For many, it may feel far too slow and even dull, but that's where the strength and power of the movie lies. As with Funny Games, the director refuses to rush through the mundane, forcing the viewer to acknowledge the reality simulated on the screen. An exploitation director wouldn't spend 3 minutes on burial, let alone on a long shot of it.
Adrián García Bogliano also takes defies convention by keeping the soundtrack minimal and ambient emphasizing the dull horror of not only the rapes, but of the revenge.
The huge accomplishment of this movie is in getting the words "subtle" and "rape/revenge movie" into the same sentence.
I loved the first two parts of the This Is America series. Some of it was staged, faked and outright made up, but enough documentary remained to make it interesting. America Exposed (This is America Part 3) breaks that pattern and egregiously, too. The version I saw had Dutch subtitles and, as an American, I hated knowing that some people might view this as accurate.
Of course, the director ups the stakes with each tall tale he spins from guns shows, to prostitutes etc. But the shark gets jumped with the fiction of the bank that gives out guns for opening an account. Not content with trying to pass that off as fact, the director shows footage of the same bank getting robbed that so obviously faked that they show a close up of someone getting shot. A school for beggars run by an acting teacher, an assassin's school, a church that burns Santa as Satan Claus...and the necrophiliacs that "allow themselves to be filmed" - it's so over the top it could be funny not in a good way.
BTW - The "preacher" from the Santa church in North Carolina apparently lost his job and traveled to Florida since he shows up in the "murderer in for life marries a 16yr old" skit joining the two in wedlock.
Mark would rather die from his illness than be cured by castration. I'm not exactly sure what illness he has but...well...it's D'Amato. He hops a flight to the tropics to visit the only place he felt happy - with Majra, his big love whom he callously left behind. Is she dead? Did her dad the voodoo priest bring her back to life? Maybe it's the morphine.
I actually like the plot of this move, despite it being basically porn. Mark's a bad person. No one really likes him. And no one pretends to, even though he's dying. You don't see that in films ofter.
Art porn. Nicely shot with some striking images, but still art porn. The one thing I really liked about this movie was a section of one of the women walking through an abandoned, run down house. The constant repetition of act felt like a comment on porn in general - one action, constantly repeated.
An odd thing was the explicitness of the opening gay scene in contrast with all the others. I'd chalk this up to the difficultly in shooting lesbian porn but the lighting of the lesbian scene seemed to hide things in a way the brightness of the gay scene did not. Similarly, the straight scene was mostly shot from a distance.
The ending was predictable and pretentious. After a title card reading "Narrative is a bourgeois mania" the Aristocrat character has the one and only cum shot directly onto the lens of the camera. Given the aggressive pointless of the film, it naturally follows that the last eigh minutes of the film consist of a black screen and white noise and no end titles.
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Movie comment on Vivre pour survivre
Paul Day
The touching story of a man who just wants to have sex with his sister.Movie comment on The Last Horror Film
Paul Day
A huge waste of time. Utter shit.Toplist comment on Grindhouse Cinema Database's Top Grindhouse Classics
Paul Day
12 left *wipes brow*Movie comment on The Disco Exorcist
Paul Day
Sharp and hilarious! A great mix of homage and parody. Lots of blood. Lots of nudity. Lots of laughs!Movie comment on Holocaust Holocaust
Paul Day
Is it like Cannibal Holocaust? No. It is NOT like Cannibal Holocaust. There's minimal gore, no nudity and after a promising start it turns into Tarzan.Movie comment on Bees in Paradise
Paul Day
The British do a lot of things well but musical comedy is not one of them.Movie comment on Seytan
Paul Day
Much devil!I love this movie SO MUCH I can barely stand it!
Movie comment on Bill and Coo
Paul Day
This is the most awesome thing in the world!!Movie comment on Ask a Policeman
Paul Day
Fun!Movie comment on Bonnie & Clyde vs. Dracula
Paul Day
Decent movieMovie comment on To kako
Paul Day
I'm not a huge Zombie fan and never seen a Greek Zombie I've but this is just a whole lotta fun. Not quite Shaun of the Dead but it's always nice to see actual characters instead of actors biding their time before they're killed.Movie comment on The Blonde Captive
Paul Day
Flesh, flesh and more flesh...er...a documentary about native people...and how they don't wear clothes.Movie comment on No moriré sola
Paul Day
Rape/revenge movies aren't supposed to be enjoyable. And this is not enjoyable but it's a great piece of film making and a great addition to the genre. For many, it may feel far too slow and even dull, but that's where the strength and power of the movie lies. As with Funny Games, the director refuses to rush through the mundane, forcing the viewer to acknowledge the reality simulated on the screen. An exploitation director wouldn't spend 3 minutes on burial, let alone on a long shot of it.Adrián García Bogliano also takes defies convention by keeping the soundtrack minimal and ambient emphasizing the dull horror of not only the rapes, but of the revenge.
The huge accomplishment of this movie is in getting the words "subtle" and "rape/revenge movie" into the same sentence.
Movie comment on America Exposed
Paul Day
I loved the first two parts of the This Is America series. Some of it was staged, faked and outright made up, but enough documentary remained to make it interesting. America Exposed (This is America Part 3) breaks that pattern and egregiously, too. The version I saw had Dutch subtitles and, as an American, I hated knowing that some people might view this as accurate.Of course, the director ups the stakes with each tall tale he spins from guns shows, to prostitutes etc. But the shark gets jumped with the fiction of the bank that gives out guns for opening an account. Not content with trying to pass that off as fact, the director shows footage of the same bank getting robbed that so obviously faked that they show a close up of someone getting shot. A school for beggars run by an acting teacher, an assassin's school, a church that burns Santa as Satan Claus...and the necrophiliacs that "allow themselves to be filmed" - it's so over the top it could be funny not in a good way.
BTW - The "preacher" from the Santa church in North Carolina apparently lost his job and traveled to Florida since he shows up in the "murderer in for life marries a 16yr old" skit joining the two in wedlock.
Movie comment on Sesso nero
Paul Day
Mark would rather die from his illness than be cured by castration. I'm not exactly sure what illness he has but...well...it's D'Amato. He hops a flight to the tropics to visit the only place he felt happy - with Majra, his big love whom he callously left behind. Is she dead? Did her dad the voodoo priest bring her back to life? Maybe it's the morphine.I actually like the plot of this move, despite it being basically porn. Mark's a bad person. No one really likes him. And no one pretends to, even though he's dying. You don't see that in films ofter.
Movie comment on Karate Cop
Paul Day
I got a version of this with Russian ovedubbing...that is: one Russian guy reading the dialogue. I have to admit - it made the movie better.Movie comment on Story of the Eye
Paul Day
Art porn. Nicely shot with some striking images, but still art porn. The one thing I really liked about this movie was a section of one of the women walking through an abandoned, run down house. The constant repetition of act felt like a comment on porn in general - one action, constantly repeated.An odd thing was the explicitness of the opening gay scene in contrast with all the others. I'd chalk this up to the difficultly in shooting lesbian porn but the lighting of the lesbian scene seemed to hide things in a way the brightness of the gay scene did not. Similarly, the straight scene was mostly shot from a distance.