The films I choose to review tend to be acclaimed classics or dark and
violent cult films too, so my film watching habits of late tend to be rather serious.
Not exact matches
The opening image and the
film's deceptively somnolent aura are rooted in the
cult of decadent Victorian and Symbolist fin - de-siècle paintings of sexualised dead and sleeping woman and broken - backed nymphs, creations of an implicitly
violent male gaze.
We just heard about Vincent Cassel joining the cast of Bourne 5, and now we've got a new trailer for Partisan, the creepy - looking
film that features Cassel as a sort of
cult leader who acts as head of a closed community and trains young urchins to do his bidding, which is often
violent.
For those of us who came to the Japanese filmmaker (and nearly never returned) via his hyper -
violent,
cult horror
films Audition and Ichi the Killer, the barrage of comedies, musicals, even children's
films can be as disorienting as the grisly sights of his alienating breakthroughs.
It does have something of a reputation as a
cult film, but that would appear to be primarily because of its intense
violent moments that include Ichi slicing a couple of throats, slicing someone completely in half (with laughably - bad CGI), and several instances of Kakihara torturing others.
In this sophomore feature, Wheatley showed a fierce command of the
film medium, creating a dizzying religious parable set among a world of
violent crime and ethereal justice with dreamlike sadistic
cults operating levers best left unmolested.