DISQUS

Film School Rejects: Foreign Objects: Philosophy of a Knife

  • Tivius · 1 year ago
    Mad props Hunter for taking the trash out with this review.
    Lets get this straight: This is a snuff film hiding behind the 5th Amendment and a false pretense of trying to educate.

    "Visionary"?
    No sirs. Just petty death porn - relevant only to those titallated by such fare.

    Nor is it Art. Art is about expression and the communication of ideas.
    Such reproductions of murder are not art, for they bear no value creatively, nor do they carry a story or express anything to the viewer - other than the act itself.

    There's plenty of bad cinema out there.
    There's also plenty of good horror films which will let you get your gore-thrill fix, if that's your thing. Alright. Cool.

    Then -- there's the vileness of material like this.
    As jacked as things are in this life - no one needs more of that.
    Not for any reason, and certainly not for half assed ones.

    I'm not religious, or conservative or unimaginative.... no - that's not it.
    I'm just damned tired of all the punk-assed evil in this world.



    Newsflash Iskanov: *MurderDeathKill* - not original, interesting or screenworthy.
    Not your "vision" --- just your fetish, dude.

    Laaaaaaaaaaaaame.




    'Nuff said.
  • Jim McGrath · 1 year ago
    I got the 2-disc version online for 13 bucks and still feel ripped off! The problem with this film is that it fails to engage in any emotional/psychological/intellectual way. I got more chills reading about accounts of Unit 731 on the internet from sites like the BBC. POAK lacks any storytelling device, so all you get are scenes of torture involving people you know nothing about , so you are not in anyway invested in them. On top of that, the actors all look like Iskanov's dorm mates at college, with no effort made to even have proper early 20th century hairstyles. It looks and feels like a very low-budget music video. Much of the so-called documentary voice-overs are not audible over the industrial soundtrack. The only thing that was interesting was the old Russian guy who gave his account of the camp. This is such a shame because this subject provides so much horrifying material and the movie ends up being just some weak gore-flick. The filmmaker did not even know to get black ink for blood so in black and white the blood looks orange or something. What

    Sorry, but Men Behind the Sun remains the only one worth a look.
  • VaginalOdor · 5 months ago
    Wow that is sick. I hope the actress did not have Vaginal Odor, poor roach.