Let's be realistic.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Sexandroide (1987)**** (out of 4) I'm not talented enough of a writer to fully explain that no matter what I say it won't be able to prepare you for this French movie. Three different "acts" are performed with each of them continuing to get stranger and stranger. The first deals with a drunk woman who goes into a bathroom where she begins to bleed from just about every spot on her body due to someone using a voodoo doll. The second story has a creature torturing a woman with needles and then moving to other objects. Finally, a sexy woman performs a sexual dance for a vampire.SEXANDROIDE comes from director Michel Ricaud and it's without a doubt one of the strangest and most bizarre movies you're ever going to see. I can't possibly go into details about how crazy and nutty this movie gets because during all three stories you keep telling yourself that you're not going to see anything weirder and yet it happens. The first story is extremely strong because of the way it cuts from the woman bleeding to the man putting holes through the voodoo doll. The way this is handled is extremely effective and will have your stomach tied up in knots.The second story is just as powerful and especially with the needle piercing, which goes through the woman's nipples but then they take it to another level with them going through her tongue and breasts. I'm not going to sit here and say that I know if it was real or if it was staged but it had me convinced that everything I was watching was real and this woman was being tortured. The third and final act is extremely sexy as the woman you're watching is quite beautiful but that bizarre feeling is still all over the place.SEXANDROIDE is hard to watch at times but it's impossible to turn away from it. It's a gross art-house picture that is actually extremely well-made and it gets all the graphic parts through in such detail that you can't help but also be turned off. There's certainly not another movie out there like it, at least from what I've seen and perhaps that's a good thing?

France is a nation long at the forefront of things that are awesome. De Sade, Bataille, Sartre, Rollin, one could make a long list. But for todays purposes, lets talk Grand Guignol. A Parisian theatrical movement founded in the late 19th century which continued until the early 1960's, it served to horrify theatre goers with its gross displays of up front and gruesome gore. Performances usually involved two or more short plays run back to back, and audience member were said to variously faint or even throw up. In other words, a great success. I'm not entirely sure why the movement faded out when it did, perhaps two world wars and general cultural change were the reason but I like to think that one of the writers saw Blood Feast and promptly decided "Screw it, we've been beaten by the best". Or whatever the French equivalent would be, probably involving the word merde. Fortunately the spirit of Grand Guignol did not entirely die, instead one Michel Ricaud brought it to cinematic life in the 80's, mot glorious of decades. Sexandroide thusly is a set of three tales, lasting just under an hour in duration and delivering quite the mighty blast of sex and gore. First up a lady at a bar falls afoul of a villain with a voodoo doll and her photo. Next we have a goth chick meet a ghoul, with impressively horrific consequences and finally a lady and a vampire result in bizarre amusement. To say more would be to spoil the fun (besides others here have detailed events). Though none of the segments have any real plotting the insanity levels are high and by and large I think it best to see such fare with a clean slate. Suffice to say that the first section is something of a warm up, the middle contains some very nasty fare including some violence that looks rather too real to not be real, and the finale has (probably unlicensed) use of a classic pop tune that will have many viewers laughing out loud. Production values are generally porno standard, though Ricaud does muster occasional visual style, particularly when dealing with the voodoo doll man, using his shadow and shots of his hands and arms rather than dealing with him head on. The gore is nasty, it is more HG Lewis than real a lot of the time, but the mean edge gives it a real kick and best of all, the violence is entirely inflicted upon nude or near nude women. This is probably morally indefensible, but I don't have any problems with eroticised torture in cinema so it didn't bother me. I was more peeved by the fact that despite the title, there are no androids in the film at any point. Seems like a deliberate misnomer, whats up with that? Basically, if you like nudity, torture and utter lunacy this is the film for you. If you don't like these things, stay far, far away. Gets a hugely satisfied 8/10 from me though, job well done.

Sexandroide, the discussion is on of this movie is French or from Belgium. No one knows but what the heck. It duration is almost an hour and 3 stories are told, well, shown, because no story has lyrics. Story one involves some voodoo done on a doll that's performed with a picture. Of course the girl on the picture gets what the voodoo dolly gets, simple as that, but first she had to get naked. A bit of blood, no gore. Second story, some demon a crossing between Frankenstein and The Phantom of the Opera and a girl performing black magic, naturally the girl has to undress and is being tortured by the demon, but here comes the fun part and the main reason why this is hunt after this flick. The girl first got pearced in her nipples and i can tell you, no tricks. After wards her tongue got pierced and then her breasts. But it goes weirder and weirder and is extremely violent and gory. The third storyline is just a girl visiting a coffin, but the dead one is Dracula, he bites her and she strips naked and performs an erotic dance on off all names Tina Turner! The tree stories are soft erotic, even when the third girl spreads it nothing is shown because her full bush. So if you are into gore and naked lasses, then this is your treat but hey, no official release yet and hard to get.

This ultimately bizarre and sickening experimental French (I think) art-house production is very obscure and almost impossible to find, but that's all right, because nobody is looking for it anyway. "Sexandroide" received three extremely positive and enthusiast user comments around here, but they might just be a tad misleading. I know the three blokes who reviewed it, and their tastes are complete opposite to the tastes of …well, normal people. No offense, guys ;) … The most praising thing I could say about this amateurish & schlocky pseudo-cult film is that it is 'interesting'. It's some kind of anthology film, but the three main stories don't feature any story lines and/or mutual themes. The only things they have in common are tons of full-frontal nudity, blood and a setting that is reminiscent to a typically Parisian "Theatre of the Macabre" stage play. The first segment is unquestionably the best one, as it's straightforward and doesn't waste any time on overlong strip-acts and redundant nude dancing. The thin story centers on a lonely blond girl going to the bathroom in a filthy bar. Someone clearly doesn't like her, as an unseen man operating a voodoo doll terrorizes her to death. The poor woman's clothes are brutally torn off, she undergoes a whole series of painful mutilations and eventually her throat is slit and hung. The end. The second story takes place in an ancient catacomb, where a Gothic lady strips off all her clothes and whips herself repeatedly, before some type of SM master joins her. He takes over the whipping, and expands it with nasty nipple piercing and even an excruciatingly sick eye stabbing. The last chapter is really dull and it doesn't even contain as much gratuitous gore and sickness as the previous two. A vampire bites another Goth girl, and she promptly starts dancing – poorly – to the tunes of two whole Tina Turner songs. The added value of this last segment was completely lost on me. As I said, "Sexandroide" has a handful of interesting sequences, like the piercing of the poor girl's nipple, which looked frighteningly authentic and painful. Camera-work, editing and acting performances are better left ignored. One could really wonder who the hell – in their right state of mind – comes up with repulsive trash like this? … More importantly, who are the freaks that watch it?