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5.0 out of 5 stars
AWESOME, November 12, 2007
This review is from: Visions of Suffering (DVD)
First off I have to say Andrey Iskanov is truly an artist. The opening scene (just to give a little away) starts with a priest who loses his faith smack in the middle of an intense nightmare thats depicted very well. The movie is completely in Russian but thats ok because there really isn't that much dialogue and it relies on the mood and visual effects that are pulled off quite impressively. The way vampires/demons are depicted in this film are not in the conventional sense that has been used and reused over and over again.This is basically a very strange and bizarre horror movie that I would highly recommend for anyone looking for something thats like a breath of fresh air from the same repetitious ideas we are all used to seeing.
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22 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A very dangerous film., December 8, 2007
This review is from: Visions of Suffering (DVD)
Use CAUTION when watching this movie! Dont watch it if you have epilepsy, and in all cases i would suggest using the buddy system for every viewing. Also...i personally feel that it is irresponsible to watch "Visions of Suffering" more than once a week. Your brain may need to recover. I bought this movie at a horror convention, based only on the cover art and the sellers statement that it was "really weird". Well...he didnt lie. I have NEVER seen ANYTHING like this movie. The best way i can think to describe it is...okay remember the cursed videotape in "The Ring"? That little minute-and-a-half long sequence of just one stressful, frightening image after another? Think something like that....for two hours. The story is about a guy having an unimaginably bad drug trip and director Andrey Iskanov (who also plays "the priest" in the film) conveys this concept extremely well through the use of wiggling textures, bizarre camera angles, and sounds. If you WERE to watch "Visions of Suffering" in an altered state of mind, theres probably a very serious chance that you could ruin your life forever. EVERYTHING in this movie is frightening, and not often through the use of gore. There is a cocker-spaniel puppy that is absolutely terrifying. And the fish sandwich....oh man. The "shape" of the letterboxing is also changing constantly. Im not even actually sure that the movie is presented in widescreen, but instead some kind of blurry, ever changing black borders that seem to constrict the size of the picture on your tv screen, creating a consistantly claustrophobic sensation. I love this movie and I show it to everyone. I actually own two copies so I can lend one out to people. It changed the way I think about film making. If you are confident in your ability to maintain a grip on reality in the face of pure, unadulterated terror...then give yourself some dvd-induced Visions of Suffering as soon as possible.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
One of a kind..., March 16, 2008
This review is from: Visions of Suffering (DVD)
First off, let me begin by saying that I do not condone getting online and trashing a movie to it's core. I know that there are as many different interests as there are people in the world. Saying that, I will never say this movie is terrible, don't watch it, blah, blah, blah. I will simply state what I saw while watching this... I bought this shortly after reading some of the other reviews on this site. All of the talk about this being "just like the 1 1/2 min segment on the ring" and "not viewing this more than once a week" got me completely interested. Even the product description made me think this was going to be an absolute terrifying movie. What props I will give the movie is that it is completely original. The visiuals, storyline, and score are all different. The camera work is amazing. I see what people found frightening about the fish sandwich and maybe even the dog. As for the rest of the film, I can't say much about it. I was not in an altered state of mind, which might have helped. I was completely sober with my eyes glued to the tube, and I still cannot say that I understood anything outside of the fact that Russians eat too many shrooms. I didn't see anything outright scary about this movie, which is why I purchased this in the first place. The stroyline jumped without reason, and the small amount of gore was so fake and drawn out that I actually felt uncomfortable after watching one death segment for around 5 min. While I do appreciate the artistic value of this film I can't say that I would watch it again. I'll piggyback on one of the other reviews; this movie is not for everyone. If you like the artsy type of movies, then you might dig this. If you're looking for a real horror movie, I suggest you look for the Evil Dead series.
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