The theme of revenge is what director Spike Lee said enticed him to re-imagine Park's dark,
twisted art house film that featured extreme violence, torture and incest.
Consequently, he developed an audacious fusion of pop culture and independent
art house cinema; his
films were thrillers that were distinguished as much by their clever,
twisting dialogue as their outbursts of extreme violence.
Stemming from an obsession with the
art house film posters that decorated the exterior walls of local movie theatres, the book shows Refn's earliest visual connection with film, including the vintage visuals of SPIKED HEELS AND BLACK NYLONS, OBSCENE HOUSE and ALICE IN ACIDLAND to THE TWISTED SEX, TORTURE ME KISS ME and ZERO IN AND SC
house film posters that decorated the exterior walls of local movie theatres, the book shows Refn's earliest visual connection with
film, including the vintage visuals of SPIKED HEELS AND BLACK NYLONS, OBSCENE
HOUSE and ALICE IN ACIDLAND to THE TWISTED SEX, TORTURE ME KISS ME and ZERO IN AND SC
HOUSE and ALICE IN ACIDLAND to THE
TWISTED SEX, TORTURE ME KISS ME and ZERO IN AND SCREAM.
In spite of its theatricality however, the
film cements itself as an
art house gem through its stylish black - and - white aesthetic and an engagingly thorough series of
twists that expertly grips its audience into the numerous primary and secondary dramas boiling underneath this ensemble of intellectuals.