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Film Perfection

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If this was a "A" movie it would deserve its IMDb rating. It is not. Someone put some love into this! It shows. Top notch "B" horror and on 300,000? That is my 5 year beer bill! Acting ranges from Good to very good. Special effects are above average through out and never take you out of the movie with cheese, actually some of the effects are really bloody well done ( pun intended).Gore level is med/high b I liked the story à la the original Hell raiser ( this is better then 3 on by the way)The characters had some depth to them and to some degree you could empathies with them drawing you again a bit farther into the movie.All in all , a hour and one half lost but not regretted.

An off-world look at the superstitious repercussions of tattooing an Ouija Board on your body. Hagen, who has a dead wife believes that he can revive her from the dead. Travis, a man who lost his brother and wants to join him in the afterlife. Morbius, a bartender who is betrayed by those he loves comes back from the dead to take revenge. And a strange man only known as Mr. Skinny protects the secrets of the Ouija Board and how the stories weave and affect each other. (summary taken from the director) Let me begin by praising this film before I explain why I gave it a mediocre rating. The best thing I can say is that this film has strong visuals, some appearing too quick to really analyze... but this works well, allowing the imagination to fill in the gaps. If there's a single redeeming part, it's the Mr. Skinny Show, especially the bouncing ball suicide song... who else can sing about the Easter bunny and sodomy? Also, there is a really nice score and soundtrack with a steady beat, and some industrial influences (not unlike Charlie Clouser's "Saw" work). I'm unclear who was responsible for this, or I would single them out... the music here deserves to be heard and be known.But yet, despite the great visuals, other parts come across as shot with home video, with too much shadow and realism. The first ten minutes drags on... the barbershop janitor, Hagen (Santiago Craig), is quite boring, and his droning on is simply blah. On the other hand, the character of Travis (Chad Grimes) is interesting, talks smoothly and he has the look -- if anyone knows how to open the gates of Hell, it's him. His side business is fascinating. But one good character does not make up for a bad one.The influences seem to be "Saw" and the work of Clive Barker. The skin map is kind of like Clive Barker's "Book of Blood" in a way, and others have compared this film to "Hellraiser". The plot is a bit sketchy, with the film focusing more on scenes of torture than much else... it seems heavily influenced by "Saw" with its traps (and the aforementioned music). While more artistic, it's not necessarily more disturbing -- a finger cutting scene did not faze me at all.Can you really use ketamine (Special K) to get off heroin? I suppose it's an improvement, but a ketamine addiction is nothing to sneeze at, either.While the visuals were great, the story was messy and dragged at times... I wonder if this could be fixed with the right editor? I would have to give this film a second viewing to properly review it, since I didn't grasp everything the first time through. But, unless my opinion radically changes, I think viewers would be perfectly safe in avoiding this title.

I have to say I don't think I got it all. I enjoyed it though and after I digest it awhile I'll probably watch it a second time. There's a lot of jumping around as far as the timeline which I don't like but now that I've got the basics of the story I think in a second watching it will all fit together. Someone mentioned the timeline couldn't work but there was one point where the demon Morbius tells travis something like "you're living in two timelines" I need to figure that out! I get why Morbius wants revenge and I get why Travis wants to find his brother but I don't get how the two fit together or how Travis seems to know Morbius from when he was alive. And Suicidal Pigman, where did he come from? Why is he involved? Yes a second viewing is defiantly in order here! One thing that bugged me was the demonetization of ketamine. That's what she gave him with her payment, not poison as someone mentioned. Ketamine is a veterinary sedative, sometimes used recreationally by humans as it has dissociative effects. Usually snorted but sometimes injected by those looking for a full on trip of enlightenment. I have never heard of anyone using it to "get off heroin as mentioned in this movie. It isn't known for "bad trips" but I guess maybe it's used here to show a breakdown of barriers between the worlds? Somehow it came across to me as "Ketamine is bad" which overall I don't think it's thought of that way. He also came out of it way too fast, injecting into his jugular like he did would knock him out for many hours! Maybe it can also be explained away y the occult aspect of his trip? I thought the acting was good, the feel of the movie was just right and I think if I figure the story out, it's a decent one! It managed to keep me interested which is always good and it's got me thinking afterwards which is also good. FX were OK, not over the top which is almost refreshing these days. Nothing made me cringe except maybe where he cut her finger. The FX were realistic though so they get a 10 from me. As for being full of gore or the sickest movie ever, can't go that far, I've seen much worse but for me i'd rather see like this because there was a reason for everything, not just gore for gores sake. For now I give it a 7 out of 10 but I may come back and re- rate it after I watch it again.

Wow. That's all. Just...wow. What else can you say about a movie that's sort of like Clive Barker meets H.R. Geiger on a really bad trip? That's pretty much what I took away from this movie. I mean...what else is there really? The story isn't too bad, but it does tend to bounce around a bit too much for my liking. You'll probably find yourself at certain points thinking "Ooooohhhhh, so that's where this was going". Some people might call this movie "graphic" or something to that extent, but I think it's an illusion. Sure, there's some horror movie type blood and gore, but all in all I think it's the atmosphere of the movie that makes it seem so much worse. Really, this movie doesn't approach the kind of schadenfreude you'd see in...say...Saw or Hostel. Oh, sure there's violence and torture, but it's not simply for your amusement, there's a point to it (ok, to be fair, it's a weak point, but at least they tried). I suppose I could go into the subtext of the plot...redemption, revenge, blah blah blah...but you really aren't watching it for that, are you? You're probably watching it because you think that, if viewed under the correct circumstances, it just might make your head explode. And maybe you're right.