Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
2.5/4
To the Extreme
Chris Kavan - wrote on 04/19/2012
It's hard to review such a divisive film - I mean, when your basing your film off the writing of the Marquis de Sade, and making an anti-fascist statement - you're not going to get rainbows and butterflies, but instead inhumane depravity such as the material proscribes. This movie doesn't push boundaries, it blows them apart with C4, then grinds the remains through a woodchipper, throws that in vat of acid and sacrifices the whole thing to the world's most active volcano.
A group of 18 teens are led to a secluded villa presided over by four men and four women - who essentially do whatever they want with these charges. This a film where forced sodomy is just an everyday occurrence - where excrement is served as a meal, where praying or even acknowledging God is punishable by death - …
Rating of
3/4
Atypical, Disturbing but Strangely Engaging
Franz Patrick - wrote on 05/14/2009
Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini paints a deeply disturbing film about Nazis who kidnapped eighteen teenagers from their homes and subjected them in all kinds of physical, sexual and mental embarrassment (”torture” is the more accurate word to be perfectly honest). Out of those eight Nazis four were men (Paolo Bonacelli as The Duke, Giorgio Cataldi as The Bishop, Umbero Paolo Quintavalle as The Magistrate and Aldo Valletti as The President) and four were women (Caterina Boratto, Elsa De Giorgi, Sonia Saviange and Hélène Surgère). I have a penchant for films that defy the norm; though this film definitely fits in that category, I must admit that even this one was too much for me. It’s one thing when the audiences are forced to hear stories about the prostitutes’ personal …
