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Old 11-06-2011, 11:44 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Ash28M View Post
I've got to disagree. You make it sound like it's August Underground. Whether or not you buy into the subtext. You have to admit it's a well crafted film with a ton of atmosphere and imagery. If it wasn't for it's subject matter most people would see it as one of the best horror of the last few years IMO.
August Underground with a budget. Aesthetically, it is a well done film. Each shot is beautiful and polished for sure. However, without the subject matter, there would be no film. It uses many Freudian themes and tries to be deep, but I found the whole experience empty, pointless and pretentious. The character's "decent" was not very well portrayed at all and only served as a vehicle for "shocking" scenes... It was silly, and the "director" character was an over the top Human Centipede doctor reject (at least that film knew what it was).

The skull fucking/ Newborn porn stuff was schlocky (although it made me chuckle a bit). The film was essentially a confused mess.

The film would have worked better as a full blown psychological character study (which it tried and failed to do). For instance; him being aroused by the image of a child while getting head was indeed disturbing and asks some pretty scary questions about the character and human nature in general. Had they gone that route and used more subtlety, opting for just one or two gross outs, it may have made the film more effective (Irreversible comes to mind). Sometimes one or two events can be more disturbing than if a myriad of gore is thrown at you "Braindead" style. The fact is that the film turns cheap, but still tries to be serious.

Sometimes less is more.

...but we can agree to disagree.

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