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4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Low-Budget Horror With a Nice Gimmick, December 31, 2005
"Tears of Kali" is actually three films; three short stories centered around people involved with a cult that practiced Indian mysticism.
All three stories focus on ex-cult members, after the cult is disbanded when its leader is murdered (torn to pieces by something/someone). This movie does have a low budget but it really earns its "R" rating: there's plenty of nudity, blood and gore. This film is not a "Ring" type of horror movie. The sound is not so great, the original German dialog is dubbed over poorly but some of the performances are really good.
If you are a horror film fan, then this film is definitely worth seeing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
one of the best german films ever!!!!, June 26, 2009
The greatest critics on the part of the global conspiracy that deals with cults and religious themes will be unable to link the non - existent Taylor - Eriksson group with the Illuminati or the Golden Dawn.
In the group , an enthusiast of psychotherapy who has undergone self - initiation through gestalt - therapy , decides to form a self - help group in Poona in India with the aim to liberate it's members from among other things negative karma in future lives.
The plot revolves around three members who had survived the group leader's pre - consciousness shift era experiments in the raising of consciousness.
The future becomes unpredicteable for the group leader as he loses control of the group and the group loses control of tulpas generated as a result of confrontation of various fears. Two of the survivors go to Germany , one becomes a psychiatrist patient , the other a psychiatrist who believes himself to be capable of healing negative karma.
The tulpas return to haunt their creators , and the group is dissolved as a result. Just to let people know there has never been any group that went by the name of the Taylor-Eriksson group and it is not associated with the original Golden Dawn in any manner.
Until this film arrived , so far there had been little sucess in constructing splatter films. The most famous splatter film since then had been Braindead , which is of course a comedy like Bad Taste.
Tears of Kali is an extremely spiritually liberating movie which terrifies the viewer into self - realization. The viewer in turn becomes obsessed with finding out the truth about the non - existent Taylor-Eriksson group , because the Taylor-Eriksson name is so haunting it cannot possibly have revealed any real person to my knowledge.
During the first time I watched the film I had no doupt in my mind that it was fictious and not based on anything else but rumours about cults which made their members go through horrendous rituals in the 1980's , such as the Order of Skull & Bones whose rituals seem far less frightening than the therapies in this film.
Furthermore the film focuses heavily upon the theme of Indian self - discovery group of which we know even less than the western ones.
This film is made during the era when Drunvalo Melchizedek , Bob Frissel and David Icke are young men who are at the best time in their days and it has been decades since Aleister Crowley died. This film is so important to me that I feel that it's director , composer and some of the actrors , any who would like should visit Iceland and lecture about the movie , and about primal scream therapy.
The man who leads the movie is symbolic of the author of the book Primal Scream. The therapautic subjects are symbolic of the viewer who is led into an Inferno , a chapter in his life where he must confront the dark side of his soul so that he can move on in his journey. In the end of the film it is revealed that the viewer has been put into the shoes of all the members of the group but I will not disclose how. As a splatter movie and a slasher film this film shocked me brutally , and it not easy for horror movies made by any director to shock me brutally. It did - and it has become the most recent cult classic in the history of German cinema.
Funnily this film is often linked with the New Age. It's subtitle is; Dark Side of the New Age. The fact is this film has in my view absolutely nothing to do with the New Age. It has to do with a message which becomes profoundly clear once the second film in the triology has been watched after two or three times. This film goes beyound the New Age into a form of existential angst appropriate for 21st century thinking. There are no ascended masters here or related new age themes except maybe the concept of karma but even in this movie that concept is lifted from the veil of many of it's deranged fundamentalist new age proponents. Of course we have past lives but there is no need to go into extremes about the interpretation of the meaning of that.
In this film that is done freely and in a manner that takes the film beyound almost all splatter movies that have been produced since before.
The film reminds me also a bit of the story of Arthur Gordon Pynn in H.P.Lovecraft's short stories.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Not worth the money look elsewhere, June 2, 2009
I again make the mistake of taking the advice of some reviewers and bought this horrible movie. It consists of three loosely based stories none of which are very good or scary. The first 25 minutes of this thing consists of someone relaying the back story, very dull. There is one slight scar in the film otherwise not very good. In fact the guy who put this movie together must have been a dropout from film school, he goes out of his way to use every annoying cut, slice and angle you could think up. Oh and have I mentioned that the dubbing job is not very good. Keep your money for a good horror movie, pass on this inferior film.
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