Memorable, crazy movie

Just perfect...

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

** THIS REVIEW COULD CONTAIN SPOILERS. I RECOMMEND THAT IF THE VIEWER DOESN'T WANT TO HAVE THE MOVIE SPOILED FOR THEM, I RECOMMEND VIEWING THE FILM BEFORE READING THIS REVIEW. THANK YOU. **If you want my opinion, this movie was blatantly horrible. I'm not just saying this because the movie is really low budget. I have no problem with low budget films. It's as if this movie was thrown together out of a spur of the moment type occurrence. First of all, the acting couldn't be judged to be either good or bad. It's as if the writer hired some woman (which has to be crazy to perform in this movie in the first place - opinion) who doesn't mind pooping, puking, and drinking themselves over the limit, and being filmed while doing it. So, in a way it's real, in a way it's not even acting in a film. Also, there is no real plot. It's just about a woman who's being sexually abused and humiliated throughout the entire movie. It's pretty much the story of a prostitute that works in a slum, with very psychotic clients. At least that's what I got out of it. I really couldn't even understand 1/2 of it. The scenes are choppy, and there's no real purpose to any of the characters. The story goes nowhere. I really can't say much more about this movie. It is just terrible. Acting is weird, story sucks, it's gross to the point of appalling, with no purpose. When I say appalling, I mean bodily fluids appalling. Who want's to watch someone so drunk they're puking on themselves for five minutes? Why? I would NEVER recommend this movie to anyone.

I've seen many of the "most disturbing" films on everyone's lists (A Serbian Film, Audition, Salo, Cannibal Holocaust, August Underground, etc.) and I was expecting this to be a crappy, relentless gorefest with extra puke. Well, there was plenty of puking, but to me it was really more of an art film than a horror or gross-out flick -- which I understand will annoy a lot of people. Of course there is over-the-top gore too. But I thought the surrealistic techniques (lack of plot, sporadic dialogue, choppy editing, industrial/processed soundtrack, etc.) made for a really great viewing experience. Ameara LaVey did a great job in the lead, though I take it she wasn't really "acting," more just being herself. I loved the cutting in of vintage footage of the young Angela. And I thought the final bathtub scene was quite touching. I found this a lot closer to something like Begotten, or a low-budget gory David Lynch, than endurance tests like The Guinea Pig films.I think it's interesting to consider this film as a critique of pornography or the exploitation of women, but I didn't really read this film that way at all. I thought it worked perfectly well as an surrealistic interior portrait. I liked it a lot. 8/10.

The thing that I realised about this film is that it isn't a horror film. It isn't particularly 'scarring', and yeah, some bits do seem like an excuse to show mindless gore. But some elements I really liked. I liked how the videos of Angela's childhood were juxtaposed in such a way (for example, the child Angela talks of 'beauty' as now-Angela is putting her makeup on). There is more to this film than meets the eye. When Princess is given the guitar to play, she can't because she only has one arm. I see this as symbolic of the pressures put on young women to be what they are not. The man playing with her severed arm is mocking her for 'not being good enough', but then uses the arm to be sick himself, suggesting the hypocrisy of mankind.This might be because i'm an English student and read FAR too much into stuff as it is, but if you look at the film as itself, instead of comparing it to other horror films, and read into it properly, you might see why I gave it a seven/ten.

I find myself returning to watch this movie at least once a year. Having watched AntiChrist by Lars Von Trier when it came out, I think I understand why. Much was made, in the reviewing of AntiChrist, of Charlotte Gainsbourgs performance. Her bravery. Her choice to display an extreme level of intimacy on screen. I would submit that the performance of the lead actress and the construction of the main character in Slaughtered Vomit Dolls surpass Charlotte Gainsbourg in AntiChrist. Furthermore without the pretentious baggage of LVTs direction what is left here is closer to reality, and as such has a greater impact.I'll get the obvious stuff aside next. The gore. Vomit. Decapitations. Strangulations. Are nothing new. Nothing you cant see in many other places. Swallowing your own vomit? Hell, they do that on practically every episode of Jackass and Dirty Sanchez. Brains, eyes, decapitations, and the rest, even more common, everything from Saw and Red Dragon to Evil Dead. Even if done well it offers nothing new, nothing to be offended by or interested in. This sort of gore stripped of context means nothing anymore.Here the gore works to satisfy the genre and supply the setting for Angela Aberdeens psyche. The highly repetitious scenes of gore are the weakest if viewed flat, but if you watch the movie with a bit of a buzz on, they make more sense. In this state they are used to induce in you a similar mental landscape to that of the main character, partly through the spectacle but mostly through the inescapable mind numbing repetition. Through these waves of blood gore and vomit, the movie produces a clean white knight sympathy for Angela. Demanding a hero to pull her out, and supplying non.The simple plot is beside the point. This movie, I believe, is intended to be more of a roller-coaster ride. To try and get you into Angela Aberdeens head in her last hours. Make you feel her pain and understand her past and what would be her unchanging future. As such this is a very brave movie. Bravery that has been vindicated by the experience you should have if you enter this with an open mind, and are not looking for a simple gore fest.A movie I will watch again in a year or so. No doubt.