I don't have the mental capacity or the stomach to finish watching the painful and idiotic animated horror film "Where the Dead Go to Die" in its entirety, although I plan to someday watch the whole thing, that day has yet to come because "Liquid Memories" just hurt my brain and annoyed me with it's pretentious bullsh*t so much that I just had ti shut it off. However, "Tainted Milk", the first short in the three (?) part anthology horror film was not really too bad. In fact, if the animation and lip syncing were enhanced like...a lot, then it'd be pretty decent. This would probably actually just work better as a short story, similar to Chuck Palahniuk's "Guts" in its gross out imagery, fearlessly disturbing concepts, and oddball sense of black humor. But, unfortunately, the final product is poorly animated and sometimes downright annoying to look at. this annoyance, of course, increased with the follow up short, but I haven't even been able to finish that trash so let's focus on this oddity for now.
Although I thought it was mostly okay, I probably wouldn't recommend it, at least not for most people...as a matter of fact, i wouldn't even recommend it to most horror fans. Because, it's not really horror as much as it is...surrealism I suppose, with elements of horror and satire and social commentary and comedy and all that jazz. The social commentary is definitely a little over the top and amateurish but, for the most part, it's tolerable and, at it's best, occasionally somewhat clever. Most people won't be able to really uncover the comedy in this short since they'll probably be too busy squirming in their seats, grappling onto their churning stomachs, trying to be rid of that ever growing queasy feeling inside. But, I'm mostly desensitized to this kind of stuff, although a few of the visuals made me scrunch my face up a little bit (I mean, who wouldn't be at least a little disturbed and disgusted by a boy having sex with a dog on top of the bodies of his dead, maggot infested parents), so I was able to laugh along with the absurd jokes. I've heard people criticize the writing heavily, but I think that's partly because they don't really get the tongue in cheek quality of this short. it's not really trying to be serious most of the time, it's just trying to provoke and disturb and prance around with comic, yet melancholic "glee", poisoning the impressionable viewer's mind for weeks to come. Some lines here and there genuinely made me crack up (particularly how the dad reacts to his dog tearing his penis off). However, overall this short fails mainly because of it's failure in the technical department as well as its sometimes overly preachy atheistic commentary. It's like if a much lower IQ Richard Dawkins was high and decided to write a black comedy inspired by "A Serbian Film" and could only convince a low budget foreign Pixar ripoff company to animate it for him. It's definitely a curio, and it has it's moments, and it's not bad per se, and it's pretty funny for the most part, and it's also quite disturbing, but it just isn't really...any good. However, compared to "Liquid Memories" it's a goddamn masterpiece!
