Serbian Film

[arjue]

Does the film have a 'happy ending'? Do any of the 'actors' survive? Is there the typical return to order and justice was served most movies have?

If so, then that's pretty shitty, as the one thing about Salo is that it never got better. At the end you feel completely crushed and the soilders dance.

the ending is a kick in the viewers teeth.

[icarusfall]

On the topic of strange movies what'd you guys think of Antichrist? It's in my netflix queue.

[Compass]

Someone in this thread apparently loves it (try to guess), and I thought it was pretty neat, too, until a single scene forced me to drop it from 4 stars to 1. Imagery has never upset me so much and it lingered for days. Hell, it still hasn't washed out of my brain and probably never will. It's straight up mind pollution as far as I'm concerned and I sincerely wish I had not subjected myself.

A certain amount of graphic imagery can aid a film's tone. But I'm much more interested in disturbing/horrific ideas as opposed to up-close, surgery-like portrayals of barbarism, real or simulated. I guess that's my line. So Men Behind the Sun is definitely out for me. Also, Cannibal Holocaust is not something I will ever watch due to the real animal abuse. I don't even feel curious at all. Just, fuck that, it's not for me.

Maybe if I hadn't been surprised, I'd have dealt with the Anti-Christ thing better and it wouldn't have ruined the movie for me. So here's your warning: full-frame female genital mutilation.

I kinda wanted to bump the short August Underground thread from 2003, but feared reprisal. Blare Witch-style snuff film type things? Comes up a lot in Most Disturbing Films lists despite the creator insisting they really aren't supposed to be "movies." Netflix doesn't stock them.

[arjue]

In that case compass, you should definitely avoid Serbian Film.

I thought Antichrist was amazing but its definitely not for everyone. It is SLOW AS SHIT up until a certain shift in tone, and i think if you lose interest before hand the tone change will seem cheap and retarded, but if you buy into the mood and atmosphere the tone change is heightened. It has some full on stuff in it, but from the get go you know you're in for a harrowing experience. It is despair on celluloid.

[JM]

Meh, there's no real point in watching it if you know whats going to happen. It'd lose a fuckload of impact. You should just trust me, it goes further than you've ever seen any other movie go. Still, for those who are still uninterested, here is a list of some of the vile acts in this movie, all looking as real as possible (Spoilers obviously):

getting a blowjob while watching a video of a 12 year old girl eat an ice cream
getting a blowjob while a 12 year old girl is watching
viciously beating a woman during sex
crying assaulted woman copping a facial
gay date rape
fucking of a mans eye socket
removing all of the teeth of a chained up woman with pliers then choking her with a dick until she dies
violently raping a woman, beheading her and fucking the corpse
a newborn baby being raped fresh from the mother
a father raping his 8 year old son so brutally blood starts pouring out the kids ass

I'm sure there's more that I'm forgetting. All of the sex looks real, and I think some of the blowjobs might be real. This movie is full of nudity of both genders including fully erect penises, and the violence is really brutal and realistic too.

I looked at the spoilers since I probably won't see this but I'd still like to ask the question...

How does a story manage to string the above described events into ANY kind of coherent plot?

[Doc Holliday]

The porno is suppose to be an 'art film' and neither require a plot. It also sounds like stages in a video game. Hopefully, they treated it like Inferno.

I am probably going to watch it now. I canceled my 3 yr old Bang Bros subscription after reading about this. I think I've finally grown tired of porn and this reminded me of how, on the whole, it's gone from eroticism and more towards straight destruction (fisting, pissing, pile driving, smacking bitches around). This movie takes the destruction off a psychological level and brings it out visually.

[MechDeus]

removing all of the teeth of a chained up woman with pliers then choking her with a dick until she dies
violently raping a woman, beheading her and fucking the corpse
a newborn baby being raped fresh from the mother

It's like the live-action Daily Life of Mai-chan.

...I'm still not sure why I read that comic. I do know I'll never watch this movie.

[Compass]

I threw caution to the wind and watched this.

Now I'm going to be the hypothetical jerk I tried to preempt in the original post, but this crap is WAY overblown in my opinion. The whole thing was like a cartoon, closer to something like Tokyo Gore Police than Irreversible, and just impossible to take seriously. I want to know what drug causes an otherwise normal man to transform into a murderous sex robot. And "Newborn Porn!"? C'mon, that had to be in there for lulz.

Having the last third as the guy merely remembering events really sucked out a great deal of tension.

Obviously this is not a family film and there are a lot of extremely fucked up situations. But there was nothing as viscerally upsetting as the Antichrist (no hyphen, got it now) scene, thank god, nor was there anything as emotionally draining as Irreversible's rape scene.

I'm relieved because I really didn't want to be traumatized. However, I did want to be suitably disturbed, and... I kinda wasn't.

The music was pretty catchy.

[Doc Holliday]

I'll have to come back to these three when I'm in the mood to watch nihilistic shit. I'm just not there, now. Last time I got on an exploitation kick, Last House on the Left (1972) had the most soul crushing rape scene I had ever witnessed when the girl gives up and is just starring at the camera, and when she solemnly walks off into the water, both got me. So, I'll have to see if any of these three make me feel worse.

[arjue]

I threw caution to the wind and watched this.

Now I'm going to be the hypothetical jerk I tried to preempt in the original post, but this crap is WAY overblown in my opinion. The whole thing was like a cartoon, closer to something like Tokyo Gore Police than Irreversible, and just impossible to take seriously. I want to know what drug causes an otherwise normal man to transform into a murderous sex robot. And "Newborn Porn!"? C'mon, that had to be in there for lulz.

Having the last third as the guy merely remembering events really sucked out a great deal of tension.

Obviously this is not a family film and there are a lot of extremely fucked up situations. But there was nothing as viscerally upsetting as the Antichrist (no hyphen, got it now) scene, thank god, nor was there anything as emotionally draining as Irreversible's rape scene.

I'm relieved because I really didn't want to be traumatized. However, I did want to be suitably disturbed, and... I kinda wasn't.

The music was pretty catchy.

I agree to an extent, I was much more emotionally affected by Antichrist and Irreversible, and even Martyrs, but as far as pure content goes this is far and away the most full on film I've ever seen. The last point in my list of spoilers was the only one that made me really feel anything though. I could probably produce a list of films that would make you feel worse than Serbian Film does.