Adrénaline

"Adrenaline" proposes a string of short surrealist films presenting at various levels an interesting mix of mild gore, cynical humor and absurd. A deeper treatment of the different themes approached (predestination, suffering for art, tv interactivity, obsession, and so on) would have been appreciated, but this can be a difficult task in regard of the formula adopted here (and possibly because of budgetary constraints) by the various directors. The light entertainment this film provided me gets a 6 on 10 on my MPS (mindf*cks per second) scale.

If you enjoyed The ABCs of Death (2012), then Adrénaline might be of interest to you. It's a collection of weird French short films, all intercut with bizarre imagery of blind people in a queue. The copy I found was in French or Italian with Russian dubbing over the top, and it didn't have any subtitles, but fortunately the majority of the shorts don't feature that much dialogue. Some of them are so strange that I doubt very much if subs would have helped, but they're all interesting in their own way and short enough to ensure that boredom doesn't set in.

Here's a quick synopsis of each segment with my favourites marked by an asterisk:

Metrovision: a man boards a subway train that goes out of control.

Revestriction: a woman is trapped in a room with a descending ceiling.*

Graffiti: An old lady kills a cat and uses its blood to paint graffiti.

Le Cimitiere des Elephants: cars take control and drive those trapped inside to a junkyard to be crushed.*

Embouteillage: a man is attacked by a bottle (I think).

Corridor: a man must navigate a series of booby trapped corridors to escape from a house.*

Interrogatoire: A man is tortured and dismembered but laughs and whistles while it happens.

Urgence: An ambulance driver searching for the location of an accident causes one instead.

La Dernière Mouche: a man sticks flies to the walls of a room in a grid pattern. He mistakes a woman's facial mole for a fly and strangles her.

T. V. Buster: A couple are menaced by a possessed television.

Cyclope: a CCTV camera turns into a mechanical bug and attacks a man, who shoots it with a crossbow.*

Sculpture Physique: an artist is repeatedly punched in the face until his head is an unrecognisable mess of bumps and bruises.