Ab-Normal Beauty –

Jiney is a photographer.  When she happens upon the gory scene of a car crash she feels compelled to snap a picture.  Afterwards, she is haunted by violent hallucinations.  This obsession with recording death spirals out of control as she pursues living subjects for her art.  Concerned about her mental health, she tries to turns her back on these images, but someone won’t let her…

The film revolves around Jiney & her relationships, as opposed to the violence alone.  Concern for her kept me riveted until the end.

Beautifully filmed & very disturbing.     

Warning:  The full film contains footage of chickens being humanely slaughtered in an outdoor market.  Not pleasant.

http://www.alluc.com/l/Abnormal-Beauty-2004-Chinese-English-Subtitle/byytieu

 

The Den –  Enter the world of cyber snuff in The Den.

The Den is an uncensored social website.  Elizabeth is studying the interactions of its users for her sociology thesis.  She receives a snuff video from one of her contacts.  Trying to find the victim, she gets dangerously enmeshed with the anonymous director.

A plausible series of events ensues where her account is hacked & used against her by a cyber-stalking predator.

This film knows how to suck the viewer in, watch it on a computer to directly enter Elizabeth’s video chats.  The line between movie & pc screen is effectively blurred. 

The psychological creep factor is what makes this film stand out.  Deeply disturbing & frightening. 

 

http://vidzi.tv/3grxy0ughqc0.html

 

Mute Witness –

Billy is a mute special FX makeup artist.  Staying late on the set one evening, she wanders into the wrong room & sees a real murder.  Her silent screams are unnerving.

Naturally, no one believes her.  Undaunted, she refuses to let the matter drop & she proves to be a clever & formidable foe for the snuff filmmakers. 

The snuff murder is graphic & prolonged, but afterwards the film becomes an exercise in psychological terror.  Be prepared for many surprises, the plot is complex and engaging.

http://vidzi.tv/roqwlpc3sa3n.html

Snuff Trap + 8MM --

It’s compare & contrast time. Two films that clearly belong together. One is a big Hollywood release, the other is a rip off of it by Bruno Mattei. It is under a French pseudonym in this facebook video, but it is the Italian film Snuff Killer, retitled Snuff Trap. Most of you have probably already seen 8MM.

 Ok so why watch both films? 8MM was first & it has all the bells & whistles. Big Hollywood budget, top actors, So what does Bruno Mattei offer us in Snuff Trap? Lots of dialogue lifted piecemeal from the Nicholaus Cage film. A dirtier (and at times cheaper) looking film. It is far more graphic in terms of onscreen violence. However, when it does diverge from 8MM things get interesting.

I have seen it at least 5 times, the dialogue is memorable & highly quotable 'you dance with the devil, the devil doesn't change, it changes you'.

However, it is less compelling for the simple reason that the hero's motivation for delving into the world of smut & snuff is not personal. He is simply doing his job as a private investigator& it leads him down a path that puts his entire family (wife & child) in jeopardy. Granted, as you watch the film you will see him become more & more invested in seeing the perpetrators pay for their crimes, but in the process he forgets what really matters, protecting his family. There are several points when he could have walked away or informed the authorities (I know, I know, that's always the case in horror films...) just as easily as continuing on the road to vengeance.

So what does Bruno Mattei offer us in Snuff Trap? Lots of dialogue lifted piecemeal from the Nicholaus Cage film. A dirtier (and at times cheaper) looking film. It is far more graphic in terms of onscreen violence. However, when it does diverge from 8MM things get interesting.

The filmmaker has given a heavy nod to another film on the subject of snuff: Hardcore. Hardcore features a religious father from a small town whose daughter is abducted into the underground world of porn & snuff. He goes on a personal journey to find her & is forever (& not for the better) changed by the degradation around him.

This personal element is brought into the plot of Snuff Trap as the mother of a missing daughter goes into the porn/snuff world. It is extremely harrowing because as a woman this world does not welcome her, doors are closed in her face, she is abused & used on her path to saving her child. The ending is a nail biter, the viewer doesn’t know if she will be the next ‘star’ for the pornographers.

Have some patience as this copy of Snuff Trap (which is hard to find) is atrociously dubbed. Oh well.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43c08w6OxS8#

http://vidzi.tv/lmbsby4n1ngd.html


 

After.Life –

Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) is a mortician who talks to the ghosts of his dead clients.  Anna Taylor (Christina Ricci) becomes his latest customer.  This turns into pseudo a love triangle with her bereaved boyfriend Paul harassing the undertaker.  Equally awkward is Anna’s refusal to accept her own death.

There is no corpse sex but the way the dead are handled seems more intimate that professional.

I can’t explain any more without revealing spoilers.  A very clever film with minimal gore.  Just watch it.

http://vidzi.tv/xmfcppj7oc25.html

Drop Dead Sexy –

A light hearted comedy full of necrophilia jokes.  No corpse sex, no gore, no blood.  Non-horror fans can watch this if they enjoy inappropriate humour.

Eddie (Crispin Glover) & Frank (Jason Lee) owe their boss Spider a quarter million dollars when their truck full of smuggled cigarettes explodes.  Eddie works as a grave digger & decides to rob a rich lady’s corpse to pay the debt.

It all goes bad when she hasn’t got the jewellery.  Then Eddie falls in love with Crystal’s cadaver.  Somehow Eddie & Frank turn this into a bizarre kidnapping scenario. 

Get ready for criminals, strippers & plot twists.  A really fun movie that got overlooked due to unsavory subject matter.

http://streamcloud.eu/kkturj81iqtp/Drop.Dead.Sexy.2005.DVDRip.XviD.HebSub.by.UploadMan.For.WWW.SERETIL.ME.AVI.html

Dr. Lamb –

Mr. Gwao-yu Lin is detained by the police after some strange nude pictures are reported by a photo developer.  The ladies in them appear to be dead.

Mr. Lin protests his innocence.  The cops don’t believe him.  The situation is bizarre.  He lives in a tiny home with his whole family yet they initially claim to be unaware of his crimes. 

He works as a taxi driver at night providing ample opportunity to pick up victims.

The photos are disturbing but more is suggested than is shown.  Things get darker as the investigation unfolds.  Gwao-yu’s family turn on him after learning he abused his niece.

As seems typical of Chinese police dramas, the cops are brutal & heavy handed in obtaining his confession. 

Weird, frenzied & over the top.  The killer howls a lot.  The bumbling police antics with the evidence made me laugh.  Most of the film is a very dark comedy.  I wasn’t disturbed until the second murder/dismemberment.  The last 23 minutes are pretty intense.  Enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb2rEoYzKJc

 

Kissed –

Kissed is a quiet movie.  It does not show graphic sexual violence.

Instead we get the coming of age story of Sandra Larson.  She likes kissing dead things.  Her obsession takes on a romantic spiritual quality. 

Sandra would never kill for a date, instead she finds a job the Wallis Funeral Home.  She goes to school for embalming.  Matt, a med student, offers her unconditional acceptance.  They begin a touching & awkward courtship.  Matt is jealous that he can’t fulfill her desires.  The results are tragic.

A beautiful adaptation of the short story from the book So Seldom Do We Look on Love by Barbara Gowdy.  This is essentially a love story with horror elements.  Full points for bringing a socially unacceptable topic to mainstream audiences.

Bittersweet & melancholy, this one drips with angst.  Enjoy the full film here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vaz3XCLRXiA#

Nekromantik 2 (Dir. Jorg Buttgereit) –

When this film was first released it was seized & banned in its native Germany & has fallen into obscurity since.  This is bizarre since no such backlash affected the original Nekromantik. 

Thanks to a new DVD/Blu-ray release it is making a strong comeback now.

The first Nekromantik follows the horror movie formula in the sense that women are disposable.  The second is female-friendly as Monika is anything but a victim.  It’s the men in her life that should worry.  Ironically, Nekromantik 2 was accused of misogyny by non-viewers of the film.

Both films feature a love triangle involving a corpse & two living lovers.  The first film ends with Robert killing himself after his girlfriend Betty leaves him for a corpse.  The second begins with Rob’s suicide footage.  Then Monika digs Rob up & brings him home.  She is also dating Mark which creates some dramatic tension.  Mark doesn’t know she has a ‘lover’ on the side. 

His reaction to finding Rob’s penis in the fridge is incredible, he just puts it back.  He doesn’t confront Monika or run away.  So I have less sympathy for him, despite what comes next.

Monika’s decision results in a bloody sexual climax that must be seen to be believed.  Instead of choosing, she finds a way to keep both the men in her life.

Although I love this film, I don’t expect everyone to agree. 

Just a trailer this time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2xN_mqjQDE

Necrophile Passion –

Necrophile Passion (Dir. Tom Heidenberg) --

This short movie is visually divided into segments, called Chapters.   

Chapters 1 – 3 (Necrologue, Pain & Isolation): 

In the first half, a lonely guy finds the cadaver of a lovely woman in the woods.  He almost calls the authorities then decides to take her home instead.  The rest of the film documents his inner torment over a bad breakup with a cruel ex-girlfriend.  It also shows his nihilistic thoughts on the meaning of life.  He has sex with the corpse.  However, it is his dreams & fantasies that are really distressing. 

Chapters 4 - 6 (Love, Hate & Aftermath):

This last half brings to mind such Bunuel films as That Obscure Object of Desire due to the power struggle between the him & his ex.  This is the best part as the main character goes beyond his egotistic angst to examine their relationship properly.    I could easily watch the film sans the first 3 Chapters.   

Jorg Buttgereit has called this film ‘a love letter to Nekromantik 2’.

The acting is amateur but that adds to the feeling of watching a real person’s life.  The visuals are sharp (on my dvd) & the gore is competently handled.  It is also very graphic which makes for an extremely difficult film to get through in one sitting. 

The link to the whole 52 minute film is here.  It has Spanish subtitles but there is a time lag where you can read the English ones underneath.  That’s the best I could do for free. 

Avoid the 14 minute sequel Paraphilia I saw the trailer & now I feel visually raped.  FML.  L 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXgCngkACO4

 

 

 

Love Me Deadly is about a young woman with 'daddy issues' who shows up at the wakes of handsome male strangers. She is noticed by a funeral parlour employee who invites her to join an exclusive club of necrophiles.

Joining is easy & she is happy to find people who share her interests at first. Cancelling her membership is another matter...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUMVC6jSvnY#t=12

Excision (2012) -- This gives you an idea of my film "tastes''.  I will start the reviews here off with some necrophilia themed horror movies (don't worry its all latex dolls).  Relax its only a movie...
Oh yeah, this page is NOT for children.  21+ only please.