Ha ha - great!"Watkins said he was high on amphetamines while making the film. He also said only about $800 was spent making the film, while the remaining $3,000 budgeted was used to buy drugs."
Martyrs was crap. The ending was pretty unsettling but, like most horror films these days, it just bludgeons you over the head with ott gore strung together by a ropey plot.
Srpski Film was alright. It shot itself in the foot a bit if it was meant to have any underlying message.
Srpski Film = The Aristocrats.
tbf, an Eastenders omnibus would have been less irritating to watch. each inch of precious film stock, wasted on the same vacuous point (i don't remember what it was excatly, it's been more than a long while since ..........), added to which, the overly dramatic music, reinforced everything i hated about the films tropes. i felt violated, as if an annoying nanny insisted on patting me down every second with ultra wet baby-wipes.
Never seen Cannibal Holocaust or the other one, Cannibal Ferox is it?
One of the creepiest and most disturbing films I've ever seen is Through the Looking Glass
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Last House on Dead End Street is decent, i love it cos everyone looks so moribund.
probably cos of this
"Watkins said he was high on amphetamines while making the film. He also said only about $800 was spent making the film, while the remaining $3,000 budgeted was used to buy drugs. [2]"
Return to Oz is spellbindingly, open-mouthedly bizarre and horrifying.
Another Japanese one for you Craner - Tokyo Decadence. I remember thinking that this was really good although it sis particularly dark and sleazy. I can't imagine that you will like it at all...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105622/
I started watching A Serbian Film on Saturday but frustratingly had to leave with half an hour to go - which was a shame 'cause so far I'd found it to be witty, well-shot and sleazy with snappy dialogue. I guess all the real bad stuff happens at the end though I think so I'll have to reserve judgment until I've seen the rest."On the mark re Srpski Film, but Martyrs was not crap. The first half hour was truly incredible."
Nah, it's a mess. I've rarely been so angered and disappointed by a film."requiem is a great film. it's trying overly hard to deny that."
Glad to hear it although I wouldn't necessarily think of the one film leading to the other."what a movie, near perfect i thought. the closing cut was more than a bit harsh, but other than that i have nothing bad to say about it. had me enthrawlled 97 percent of the time. first time i've heard the word 'cuntcisely' - excuse the pun but that whole scene cracked me up.
watching it has compelled me to set aside time to watch Celine and Julie Go Boating, this time i'll watch it sober and not pass out."
I started watching A Serbian Film on Saturday but frustratingly had to leave with half an hour to go - which was a shame 'cause so far I'd found it to be witty, well-shot and sleazy with snappy dialogue. I guess all the real bad stuff happens at the end though I think so I'll have to reserve judgment until I've seen the rest.
You're right, Martyrs is not totally crap, the first scene is good and it's genuinely shocking when **SPOILER** the guy opens the door only to have his head blown off with a shotgun **SPOILER ENDS** but I did feel that the second half was dull and the ending really weak. It's definitely way ahead of shite such as Hostel though.
Nah, it's a mess. I've rarely been so angered and disappointed by a film.
OK, maybe we're not too far away from each other on that one."Hmm, I'm really not sure about Srpski Film - it was pure torture porn imo (and a lot happens in the last half hour), though you're right, the script/dialogue wasn't bad at all."
I think I was angered by the transparency of the attempted manipulation. I thought it was done so hamfistedly that I could almost feel the director sitting there telling me what to think. I mean, I guess virtually all films are manipulative up to a point but they should at least do it well."What angered you about Requiem for a Dream? I suppose I can see how someone might dislike it for being manipulative, but so many of the other films recently mentioned are as well."
I guess I liked the rawness which is strange in itself becuase that is usually a term that is intended to mean that it seems somehow realler whereas rawness in acting is generally bad acting which makes the film seem less real. Maybe its strength was in that it was a very simple and primitive film which was able to create a world in which it was possible to believe that that was the way people acted."I watched most of I Spit on Your Grave (original) at the weekend. I'm not convinced - the idea is of course an interesting one, though hardly out of leftfield, and next to, say, Last House on the Left it looks pretty indistinguished. Nothing particularly wrong with it, but once you know the story (and doesnt' everyone before watching it?) there's little else there. Acting is atrocious etc etc"
I watched most of I Spit on Your Grave (original) at the weekend. I'm not convinced - the idea is of course an interesting one, though hardly out of leftfield, and next to, say, Last House on the Left it looks pretty indistinguished. Nothing particularly wrong with it, but once you know the story (and doesnt' everyone before watching it?) there's little else there. Acting is atrocious etc etc