Don't Go In The House

I have a feeling the main character of this film would get along famously with Ed Gein. After all, the two have a wee bit in common, when their mommies die, they kinda flip the fuck out. All they really needed was a little push of encouragement to take their levels of wacko to new extremes.

Someone should seriously tell this guy that screaming at a dead body won't bring them back no matter how loud you wanna get. Is it me or does this guy look a little like Dustin Hoffman?

Enter in scene: first dumb chick of the film. A little persistence goes a long way with this one. Ready and willing to enter eerie old house, check. Innocently wandering around house to fulfill curiosity, check. Turning back on odd stranger, check. Death, not surprising in the least.

Forget the blades and guns, this guy knows how to go crazy in style. Weapon of choice; flamethrower, and why the hell not. Must suck for the ladies.

I'm sure the smell through out his house is quit interesting.

The movie is not gruesome or disturbing as compared to previous posts but it is one worth watching.

Begotten

If you wake up one morning with the urge to watch a movie where someone practices self disembowelment within the first three minutes, for whatever reason, here is my gift to you. Within minutes of such actions occurring a random woman impregnates herself with said fellows bodily fluids.

This woman proceeds to give birth to a fully grown man-child who comes equipt with one of the creepiest sounds emitting from a living creature I have ever heard. I might also like to add that this man-child closely resembles the creatures from the Descent, even their movements are similar.

Oh the glorious world of cinema.

I know there is an explanation of this movie that exists, I have read it. For the sake of you having your own unbiased interpretation of the film, if that's what you want, I won't explain what it's "suppose" to be about. And just don't read the paragraph underneath this one if you feel strongly about it. I feel as though this movie wants you to interpret it for yourself. You might even decide that the movie is a load of shit, too long and is just being passed along as art. That's your call.

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To me the film was post-apocalyptic in its entirety. Last man on earth, wouldn't blame him, goes insane and decides to take his own life (Not saying I agree with his choice of suicide.) What he doesn't know is that there is another human being on earth and she finds him a little too late, or not. So she decides, what the hell, what have I got to lose and she makes herself pregnant in order to repopulate the world. Ultimately, humans beings are always going to be suffering.
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There are certain scenes throughout the movie that extend to unnecessary lengths. You might, just might, feel a bit awkward watching some of them, even by yourself. Or not.

The film closely resembles to me what movie hell would look like, no dialogue whatsoever, raw sounds and lighting that can only be described as crude. If one were to have a dream in such a landscape lets hope you wouldn't have to be there long. Not even Freddy Krueger could make your nightmares so damn unforgettable.

All I know is if I end up having a dream that even closely resembles anything from this movie I'm going to be pissed.

Men Behind the Sun

Many know of the horrific experimentations the Nazi's performed during the reign of Hitler, less are aware of Japans Unit 731 which was in progress between 1937–1945. This unit performed experimentations upon humans that rival those performed by the Nazi's. For biological warfare of course and if you're curious as to the specific experimentations they inflicted upon their own people, it's called the internet.

The movie is based on actual events which is why it's so terrifying. The casualness that the soldiers and generals treat and speak of the experiments only adds to my frustration that people can actual do this to one another.

There is a scene where a young mute boy is taken to be experimented on. It is completely heartbreaking because he is innocent as to what they are about to do to him. He willingly listens and does everything he is told. They proceed to put him to sleep and take his major organs out. Pulling the heart from his chest while it is still beating.

The scientists throughout the movie are completely devoid of any human compassion. They are in some ways worse than even the Nazi's because they experiment on their own people.

And at last a huge slap of symbolism sprays across the scene when the last prisoner is stabbed with a huge pole which holds up a huge Japanese pole. It is not subtle at all. Don't look for any glorious Hollywood ending for the underdog here.

Nekromantik

Damn.

Thats exactly what I said after watching this film.

I won't lie to you, I tried to watch it once and was revolted so much I turned the movie off half-way through. The title is pretty self-explanatory.

A young guy named Rob works for a cleaning service who goes out and cleans up dead bodies after accidents. Robs got a sick little hobby, he likes to steal body parts from the scenes and keep them in jars at home. His girlfriend is cool with this and proves herself to be equally, if not more, sick in the brain than he is.


One day, while at work an almost completely decayed body is found in a swamp. So our buddy, the freak, decides he wants to steal the body and take it home. There will be corny upbeat music playing during a scene that will have your inner soul gag in revulsion.

--This was the part of the film where I stopped and walked off in complete disgust the first time-- You will wonder why but you will get no answers.

To Robs surprise, after losing his highly appealing job, he finds that his wacko girlfriend has left him for the corpse. I mean Rob is one ugly dude, but I'm sure most would prefer him to a rotting corpse.

One element missing from the movie was definitely character development, if you can even get past the actions that they perform.

Rob spends the rest of the film having weird dreams, attempting suicide and my all time favorite- bathing with a cats innards. Just when you think the movie has done all it can, the last five minutes will keep you guessing. It will be the most original self-inflicting wound you have ever seen and you might just react with laughter. That's what I did, because honestly, it's just that outrageous.

This is one German film I guarantee will cause a physical reaction from just about anyone.

Salo aka 120 Days of Sodom

I have to say, or admit, that out of curiosity I have read a large portion of Marquis de Sade's work "120 of Sodom." The work was written in 1785. Don't even try to assume that such a year kept this book prim and proper. Keep in mind this is the man who so graciously bore the English language the word "Sadist." If you don't believe me, I have entered below a mere sample of the descriptions throughout his book(specifically the fourth part.)

77. His first passion: little by little to burn the breasts and buttocks with the flame of a match; his second: over every part of the girl’s body to plant a forest of sulphur-coated slivers, which he lights one by one. He watches her die in this way.

109. He buries the muzzle of a shotgun in the boy’s ass, the weapon is loaded with buckshot and he has just finished fucking the lad. He pulls the trigger; the gun and his prick discharge simultaneously.

112. He drives a long spike through the victim’s asshole and thus nails him to a slender pole, and leaves him to sigh away his last hours, or days.

Oh de Sade was such a fun loving author wasn't he.

It was safe to say when I began to watch Salo, I was prepared for some sick vomit-inducing cinema. Oh to say I was disappointed is an understatement. Don't get me wrong, there are some twisted scenes. Plenty of rape, torture and a delicious scene of literal shit eating mania. De Sade served up so many hellish actions in his novel with so much more power than the movie even tried to attempt.

The only reason why the movie is somewhat disgusting is the actual reality that money and/or power could allow sick people their most mentally deranged fantasies. These four men, kidnap 9 girls and 9 boys, take them to a secluded castle and proceed to do whatever they want. Oh and with the HELP of police officers, yeah. It's like an early Hostel, but without an ending that will leave you satisfied. You will be left wondering the fate of the "slaves" by the time the credits role. Do they live or die? Sorry, I know I ruined the ending for you.