Tim-Wambolt

This Halloween I chose to review Ronny Carlsson's new avant-garde short "Récompence". Shot in HD and widescreen format, the film is given a professional look that stands out from Ronny's previous experimental shorts. Récompence is a silent film filtered in hard black and white with the Adjustment Levels balanced to eliminate any gray color, lending well to the contrast of Mariette's eyes. The background music is eerie and beautiful, strengthening the atmosphere of the film, (one track even reminded me of the Cannibal Holocaust theme, a personal favorite of mine). Ronny carves his vision into his film palette like a fresh pumpkin ready to expose his fire inside. And like his previous films, Ronny leaves the story open for interpretation, allowing every viewer to take something different from the experience. Récompence explores themes of loss, fear, love and acceptance in a non-linear time line. And of course for those with no patience or imagination there is plenty of gore and nudity to provide both tricks and treats for everyone.

Ronny keeps insisting that I point out every little flaw in the film to avoid sounding biased towards my friend, leaving me no choice but to nitpick. Thanks Ronny! Personally I would favor cuts instead of fades and only one transition shot at a time for better pacing. And I could also do without the scene where Mariette walks towards the camera to the beat of the out-of-place techno music, (she appears to get bored with the length of the shot after a while, itching her nose, flipping her hair, and looking away from the camera. This may have been intentional though, remember Bizarro is the keyword here). But to point out jagged carving cuts is to miss the point of the overall great art on display here. And if I were to go pumpkin smashing over petty things like that I would never be able to enjoy any film again. This is another reason why I respect Ronny, what other filmmaker would ask a reviewer to find and point out flaws in the film? Ronny reviews bizarre movies every day so he knows what it takes to create a truly surreal experience for the viewer and Récompence is proof of that. You'll never know what to expect next in this film. A very ambitious project for a short film. And just when you finally start to admire the growth and beauty of this pumpkin, Ronny cuts it open and rips out it's guts! (Don't forget who's making this film)! Récompence has the pacing and strangeness of an Alejandro Jodorowsky movie with a unique filtered look that separates it's visuals from most films, leaving you with a final eye-catching design for a jack-o-lantern worthy of repeat viewings. Happy Halloween!

Ronny Carlsson of Film Bizarro, has a new film out called, "My Monster", the continuation of Ronny's debut short film "Video Geisteskrank", but I promised Ronny that I wouldn't give anything away...

So how do I write a review without giving anything away? Well, maybe it's better that I don't give anything away just yet because I believe that everybody will probably get something different out of this film, interpreting it in their own way. But I just have to say that he did a great job and it is very apparent that he is a born filmmaker. The underground is alive and unique! Props to the talented and tolerant lead actress, Amelie Malmberg and producer and critic Preston Carnell for his sharp eye for detail. I was really impressed by Ronny's editing and the all of the beautiful cinematography, the psychotic music (courtesy of Porcelain magGot), and all of the symbolic metaphors throughout, (many of which I can not understand and do not know if I am supposed to understand). The film is also full of August Underground homage, slasher movie suspense and gruesome gore! And man is this movie ever a mind screw!

It felt like some naked guy came running up to me with his nut sack bouncing off his thighs and then he shoved his dong in through my ear and creamed all over my brains. And then another butt-naked guy dropped out of the sky ass first, swallowing my entire head inside of his butt hole like a Venus fly trap, leaving a trail of green excrement in my hair as he slides down the side of head. And then suddenly, the first guy's ding-a-ling comes out of my other ear and catches this second naked guy in the butt hole, hanging him from his penis like a jacket on a coat rack as he then begins penetrating the danger zone, thus mixing the green poop with the white semen until it all looks like guacamole. (The first guy is black by the way, that is why his penis is big enough to go all the way through my head and into the second guy's butt hole.) In fact, (wait, why the hell am I hungry for guacamole now?) Anyways, in fact, not to be racist but let's just say for the sake of argument that the second guy is black too, that way this hump-sandwich can become some kind of metaphoric Oreo cookie, with the two black, naked gay guys that are butt-humping each other representing the chocolate outside, and all the sperm in the inside and the outside of my head can act as the white filling in the center. That's how big of a mind screw this movie was!

I apologize to Ronny if I have given away too much already and I apologize to anyone who's wiener ends up going limp while having sex with their girlfriend as a result of picturing two sweaty, butt hole naked homosexual, black men making love to my head.

But actually now that I think about it, "mind screw" is an understatement, it goes beyond that, so to better understand the sexual metaphor you must also picture another naked black guy pulling his butt cheeks apart to reveal the pink goatse center of his stretched out anus while he is sharting. Think about it!

Great job Ronny!