Director: Chiara Natalini (segment)
Release date: 2016
Contains spoilers
Release date: 2016
Contains spoilers
This is a film that Leila mentioned to me. It is a horror anthology set in Italy, each story being around a different city/region and each film focusing on a migrant person/community. It is a call for integration by absolutely othering the different cultures and a need for understanding – as per IMDb – but it might also be read in a more nationalistic sense given that it is the immigrant cultures/persons that are othered.
Possibly my favourite was very short and the first segment, Grandma's Remedy, which involved voudon and Baron Samedi. The vampire segment, Veneranda, was the very last segment and was, itself, rather short. So short in fact that the whole thing will be spoilt or there will be little to say.
The opening shows a woman, from behind, getting ready at a dresser in a loft or warehouse type space, cut with various roadways in the city. We are then with three men, two in a car and one puking nearby. It is a stag party, the man puking is the groom and one of his friends videos and takes photos of him on their phone. Eventually there is a call for them to go on a “slut tour”.
This consists of driving through a red-light area. They pass many streetwalkers, who seem to be from the transexual community, before the groom tells them to stop by one particular prostitute. She seems momentarily reluctant, then agrees and gets in the car. They pull up at a building and this is clearly her space, containing the dresser from the beginning.
She dances for the man and soon goes down on him as the friend films. However, he is soon screaming, and blood is everywhere. She comes up to reveal fangs and slaughters the men. She is revealed to be from Brazil. There isn’t much to say about this segment. It works, it has good atmosphere through the photography a fair amount of blood (though it fails to meet the levels in the section Rigorosamente dissanguati da vivi, which has a torture porn vibe). There isn’t really a massive narrative, however; the men may have been loud, drunk and obnoxious but they did not do anything that would make this seem anything more than slaughter and feeding. 5 out of 10 for the segment in and of itself but the film as a whole deserves more.
The imdb page is here.
On Blu-Ray @ Amazon US
On Blu-Ray @ Amazon UK
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Possibly my favourite was very short and the first segment, Grandma's Remedy, which involved voudon and Baron Samedi. The vampire segment, Veneranda, was the very last segment and was, itself, rather short. So short in fact that the whole thing will be spoilt or there will be little to say.
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| getting ready |
The opening shows a woman, from behind, getting ready at a dresser in a loft or warehouse type space, cut with various roadways in the city. We are then with three men, two in a car and one puking nearby. It is a stag party, the man puking is the groom and one of his friends videos and takes photos of him on their phone. Eventually there is a call for them to go on a “slut tour”.
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| streetwalker |
This consists of driving through a red-light area. They pass many streetwalkers, who seem to be from the transexual community, before the groom tells them to stop by one particular prostitute. She seems momentarily reluctant, then agrees and gets in the car. They pull up at a building and this is clearly her space, containing the dresser from the beginning.
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| facing a vamp |
She dances for the man and soon goes down on him as the friend films. However, he is soon screaming, and blood is everywhere. She comes up to reveal fangs and slaughters the men. She is revealed to be from Brazil. There isn’t much to say about this segment. It works, it has good atmosphere through the photography a fair amount of blood (though it fails to meet the levels in the section Rigorosamente dissanguati da vivi, which has a torture porn vibe). There isn’t really a massive narrative, however; the men may have been loud, drunk and obnoxious but they did not do anything that would make this seem anything more than slaughter and feeding. 5 out of 10 for the segment in and of itself but the film as a whole deserves more.
The imdb page is here.
On Blu-Ray @ Amazon US
On Blu-Ray @ Amazon UK
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