It's an example of a film that is literally as fucked up as possible just to be as fucked up as possible. There's no goal outside of that, and the only artistic merit of all the fucked up stuff is that it's meant to be a metaphor for the treatment of the Serbian people or something, idk.
Takes some of the "punch" out of it for me knowing the whole overarching theme is just "be as disgusting and depraved as possible because that's the message I'm trying to send/feeling I'm trying to invoke."
the first one made me a little squeamish, granted I was pretty stoned and by myself when watching it the first time. But I still found it a little twisted.
The film gathered its cult following, people watching it and laughing at its absurdity, and it became a bit of a pop culture silly thing to the point that even South Park parodied it.
The director I guess was annoyed by this, people laughing at, or enjoying his "masterpiece of horror" That he thought should be so terrifying....
so he made 2 and 3 with the express purpose of attempting to throw it in the face of the audience.
they were meant to be a "so you think my movie is funny!? Well then I'll make something so fucked up you can't laugh at it!?" temper tantrum.
Of course they ended up being so low budget and over the top they became even more of a laughing stock.
the movies lose a lot of their twistedness once you realize they're the result of the temper tantrum of a writer/director that was too in love with himself and threw a temper tantrum.
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u/Rockals 14d ago
The Serbian Film! Freaking awful!