Reality Bleed-Through

Before the animated cluster-bomb of everything nightmarish that is Where the Dead Go to Die, Jimmy ScreamerClauz created this nugget of insanity. It's loud, bold, psychedelic but unpleasant, I guess like a bad acid trip would be.

Brandon Slagle delivers a very solid performance as the deeply disturbed ex-lab rat, Ethan. Ethan's mind is not a relaxing place to be after the sinister Government has played around with his psyche and we are witness to some weird and bizarre sights. We are also introduced to the chilling shadow figure known as The Suicide King. This blazing eyed creature / demon has a voice that drills into your very soul and is certain to return in some viewers' nightmares.

The cast are great, the script is multi-layered and the direction tight. For a micro-budget film, this is a deeply ambitious project and, unlike Where the Dead Go to Die, it is mainly live action. However, the movie does not pull any punches and, in my opinion, it's even more graphic than its computer generated successor. There are all sorts of physical insults delivered to the human body and the camera doesn't take any prisoners. Top notch effects and editing make this an uncomfortable experience.

Part of ScreamerClauz's formula is his unique soundtrack of industrial noise, distortion and Death Metal-like music. It's a winning combination, both unsettling and enjoyable at the same time.

Recommended for fans of experimental cinema, this is a low budget diamond.

So let me just get this right out in the air, I'm a huge Jimmy ScreamerClauz fan! I really love this man's style of off the wall psychedelic nightmare fuel movies. I think it's some of the darkest and most surreal animations I've ever seen. So mind you this is coming from a fan here. This movie is really bad!! And I'm not trying to be too negative about it but the story is atrocious! The acting is mostly bad. This movie just feels real amateur hour. It mostly resembles a high school kids class video project. But the place where this shines above where its mostly unwatchable is in Jimmy ScreamerClauz's effects. They really do elevate the this production, making it feel like more than just a crap z-movie (which this is) . Some of the stuff, while primitive still looks pretty impressive. Which is really the one saving grace for this movie.

Now I can see why he hasn't tried to release this again because it's definitely not good. And I've even asked myself could this movie be better completely animated in his style? Absolutely not! The story is just horrendous! Like there's good aspects to it, and there is a better movie hiding here. But it gets ridiculous quick with way too many stories going on. Unfortunately most of the stories detract from the one interesting story that's going on with the lead character. It's funny because you can see small things in this movie that seems to be themes in his latter movies that are done way better.

Besides this movie being a novelty for completionist there's really no reason to watch this. Watch his newer stuff and just pretend like he does, that this movie doesn't exist.