Sexandroide

This ultimately bizarre and sickening experimental French (I think) art-house production is very obscure and almost impossible to find, but that's all right, because nobody is looking for it anyway. "Sexandroide" received three extremely positive and enthusiast user comments around here, but they might just be a tad misleading. I know the three blokes who reviewed it, and their tastes are complete opposite to the tastes of …well, normal people. No offense, guys ;) … The most praising thing I could say about this amateurish & schlocky pseudo-cult film is that it is 'interesting'. It's some kind of anthology film, but the three main stories don't feature any story lines and/or mutual themes. The only things they have in common are tons of full-frontal nudity, blood and a setting that is reminiscent to a typically Parisian "Theatre of the Macabre" stage play. The first segment is unquestionably the best one, as it's straightforward and doesn't waste any time on overlong strip-acts and redundant nude dancing. The thin story centers on a lonely blond girl going to the bathroom in a filthy bar. Someone clearly doesn't like her, as an unseen man operating a voodoo doll terrorizes her to death. The poor woman's clothes are brutally torn off, she undergoes a whole series of painful mutilations and eventually her throat is slit and hung. The end. The second story takes place in an ancient catacomb, where a Gothic lady strips off all her clothes and whips herself repeatedly, before some type of SM master joins her. He takes over the whipping, and expands it with nasty nipple piercing and even an excruciatingly sick eye stabbing. The last chapter is really dull and it doesn't even contain as much gratuitous gore and sickness as the previous two. A vampire bites another Goth girl, and she promptly starts dancing – poorly – to the tunes of two whole Tina Turner songs. The added value of this last segment was completely lost on me. As I said, "Sexandroide" has a handful of interesting sequences, like the piercing of the poor girl's nipple, which looked frighteningly authentic and painful. Camera-work, editing and acting performances are better left ignored. One could really wonder who the hell – in their right state of mind – comes up with repulsive trash like this? … More importantly, who are the freaks that watch it?

Sexandroide, the discussion is on of this movie is French or from Belgium. No one knows but what the heck. It duration is almost an hour and 3 stories are told, well, shown, because no story has lyrics. Story one involves some voodoo done on a doll that's performed with a picture. Of course the girl on the picture gets what the voodoo dolly gets, simple as that, but first she had to get naked. A bit of blood, no gore. Second story, some demon a crossing between Frankenstein and The Phantom of the Opera and a girl performing black magic, naturally the girl has to undress and is being tortured by the demon, but here comes the fun part and the main reason why this is hunt after this flick. The girl first got pearced in her nipples and i can tell you, no tricks. After wards her tongue got pierced and then her breasts. But it goes weirder and weirder and is extremely violent and gory. The third storyline is just a girl visiting a coffin, but the dead one is Dracula, he bites her and she strips naked and performs an erotic dance on off all names Tina Turner! The tree stories are soft erotic, even when the third girl spreads it nothing is shown because her full bush. So if you are into gore and naked lasses, then this is your treat but hey, no official release yet and hard to get.

France is a nation long at the forefront of things that are awesome. De Sade, Bataille, Sartre, Rollin, one could make a long list. But for todays purposes, lets talk Grand Guignol. A Parisian theatrical movement founded in the late 19th century which continued until the early 1960's, it served to horrify theatre goers with its gross displays of up front and gruesome gore. Performances usually involved two or more short plays run back to back, and audience member were said to variously faint or even throw up. In other words, a great success. I'm not entirely sure why the movement faded out when it did, perhaps two world wars and general cultural change were the reason but I like to think that one of the writers saw Blood Feast and promptly decided "Screw it, we've been beaten by the best". Or whatever the French equivalent would be, probably involving the word merde. Fortunately the spirit of Grand Guignol did not entirely die, instead one Michel Ricaud brought it to cinematic life in the 80's, mot glorious of decades. Sexandroide thusly is a set of three tales, lasting just under an hour in duration and delivering quite the mighty blast of sex and gore. First up a lady at a bar falls afoul of a villain with a voodoo doll and her photo. Next we have a goth chick meet a ghoul, with impressively horrific consequences and finally a lady and a vampire result in bizarre amusement. To say more would be to spoil the fun (besides others here have detailed events). Though none of the segments have any real plotting the insanity levels are high and by and large I think it best to see such fare with a clean slate. Suffice to say that the first section is something of a warm up, the middle contains some very nasty fare including some violence that looks rather too real to not be real, and the finale has (probably unlicensed) use of a classic pop tune that will have many viewers laughing out loud. Production values are generally porno standard, though Ricaud does muster occasional visual style, particularly when dealing with the voodoo doll man, using his shadow and shots of his hands and arms rather than dealing with him head on. The gore is nasty, it is more HG Lewis than real a lot of the time, but the mean edge gives it a real kick and best of all, the violence is entirely inflicted upon nude or near nude women. This is probably morally indefensible, but I don't have any problems with eroticised torture in cinema so it didn't bother me. I was more peeved by the fact that despite the title, there are no androids in the film at any point. Seems like a deliberate misnomer, whats up with that? Basically, if you like nudity, torture and utter lunacy this is the film for you. If you don't like these things, stay far, far away. Gets a hugely satisfied 8/10 from me though, job well done.

"Sexandroide" is an extremely strange soft core porno/S&M horror which is literally splashed with gore.It simply has to be seen to be believed.The previous reviewers described well the plot of "Sexandroide", so I won't bother doing it again.However the second short which features a naked woman who suffers torture at the hands of zombie is a must-see for splatter fans.She has her nipples pierced and is gorily stabbed in one of her eyes resulting in gouging it out.The third short is truly weird as it involves a naked vampire woman dancing near the coffin of the vampire to Tina Turner music.I laughed like crazy during this episode.So if you enjoy watching gore and nudity you can't go wrong with this piece of ultra-weirdness.The film is also known under the titles of "Les Sexandroides" and "La Dagy de Les Sexandroides".

Although this film's title suggests some kind of raunchy sci-fi about automatons designed to satisfy their owners' carnal desires, it is nothing of the sort; rather than futuristic fembots, this obscure French anthology delivers a trio of stories featuring a gruesome voodoo ritual, bizarre 'Grand Guignol'-style performance art, and a naked vampire who dances to Tina Turner!

Story one of three sees a sexy young woman in a bar unaware that someone is out to do her harm via a voodoo doll; when she pays a visit to the ladies room, unseen forces rip off all her clothes, make her bleed profusely, and tear open her throat. Expect plenty of female nudity, and lots of unconvincing blood-letting.

In tale number two, a naked goth chick in a gloomy dungeon is tortured by a snaggle-toothed zombie who pushes needles through her tongue and breasts (a sequence that looks far too convincing for comfort); he then gouges out her eye and stabs her in the chest. Finally, the ghoul cuts into his own arm with a knife, slices open his stomach and pulls out his guts. Expect plenty of female nudity, and loads of blood.

The final story is perhaps the strangest of all: a female mourner is attacked by a cheesy looking vampire who rips off all of her clothes (hey, I think I can see a pattern emerging...) and bites her on the neck, transforming her into a sexy bloodsucker who proceeds to dance badly to a couple of Tina Turner tracks. After strutting her stuff to 'What's Love Got To Do With It?', vamp-gal stops for a canoodle with vamp-guy, who hangs a 'do not disturb' sign on the side of his coffin. Expect plenty of female nudity, cheap plastic fangs, and gratuitous gyrating to 80s pop/rock.

Most sane people would undoubtedly dismiss this as unwatchable garbage (although I imagine it's unlikely to ever land in the lap of your average movie-goer); on the other hand, those who actively thrive on z-grade exploitation obscurities are advised to scoop this one up given the chance—a more deranged, technically inept, gratuitously sleazy piece of bizarro trash would be hard to find.

6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.