Eyes of Dread

Too artsy to be sexy and probably too sexy to be art. And definitely too cheap to be popular. But it sure has a lot of interesting stuff. I love the weird and off the wall unique. So if you're into that sort of thing... People will refer to Lynch perhaps, and some might even mention Argento. But I think it's its own thing. It's unique. I would like to see this in a theatre some night. Might not be what most would wanna watch in a theatre but it has an abnormal sort of ugly beauty to it which doesn't make sense but neither does this movie totally either. Too much talking but it makes up for it in intensity. Some really creepy scenes. Plus I loved the stripper dominatrix actress: Luna Dvil, she's fantastic! And also a great performance from the lead Malin Saine.

Some will love this movie but more will hate it. Even though I found it truly unsettling and atmospheric at times, it isn't exactly your run of the mill horror. First of all: it's sloooow, and then on top of that it has a veeery low budget, and then on top of THAT the story meanders and sometimes digresses in dialogue scenes that have nothing to do with it at all. Or have they? There seems to be something of a riddle to the whole thing to me. As if everything is connected...I don't know why I get that feeling. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm making it up for myself, but I feel a strange fascination for something that seems to be dwelling under the saturated surface . As if there is this mystery within a mystery in the movie, a mystery that seems to be sort of suggested by all details put together. As if the movie is hinting at a secret that only a few can discover. And you can only discover it if you put all seemingly disconnected pieces of the puzzle together, every detail, every line of dialogue, even every choice of color. It sounds silly, and this feeling is probably an illusion. Very likely. But anyway - it comes from the movie. The way I see it, it's the atmosphere, the way it's shot, the places, even the low budget, that creates that feeling. Also things like the strong colors, the weird sounds and the weird way the actors speak - and the long striptease scenes ... all help I guess. It was trippy, I felt it. Like a good trip verging on a really bad horrible one. Perhaps it helped that I was in the right mood watching, had the right atmosphere around it, by myself in the night and so on, and didn't have it interrupted by ads and stuff. Anyway - not for everyone, in fact probably not for many. But maybe in the future it'll be a cult around it or something. I don't really believe that but maybe...