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A Serbian Film - Pointless trash or pointed critique?

Posted 27th October 2010 at 02:13 PM by Sam@Cult Labs
Updated 24th November 2010 at 11:29 AM by Sam@Cult Labs

WARNING: SPOILERS!

Don't read unless you've seen the film or aren't bothered about major plot reveals.


A SERBIAN FILM



IS IT ART?

DOES IT HAVE A POINT?

ARE WE DEFENDING IN INDEFENSIBLE?


When the Hollywood mainstream can turn the multiplexes into a mire of torture porn and Saw-style sadism and you can go and sit with an audience and see...
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Thirst Clip Show

Posted 12th January 2010 at 11:37 AM by Sam@Cult Labs
Updated 12th January 2010 at 11:49 AM by Sam@Cult Labs

CLIPS FROM THIRST


Coming to DVD & BLu-Ray in the UK 25.01.2010



Thirsty Talk on Cult Labs







Enjoy these exclusive clips from Thirst, the latest movie from the acclaimed director of Old Boy, Lady Vengeance and I'm a Cyborg, Park Chan-Wook.

Courtesy of Palisades Tartan




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Possession

Posted 23rd May 2009 at 07:05 AM by Sam@Cult Labs
Updated 23rd June 2010 at 12:19 PM by Sam@Cult Labs

From the Annals of DVDisgo (RIP) and DVDresurrections


Possession








Another film caught up in the UK's draconian Video Nasty clampdown of the early ‘80s, Possession is in fact more of an extreme art house movie than the exploitative hard gore horror films it was lumped in with on the Department of Public Prosecutions banned list.

First of all, a word of caution - viewers expecting bloody thrills...
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Sex & Zen

Posted 26th April 2009 at 10:50 AM by Sam@Cult Labs

Sex & Zen





Classic Hong Kong Cat III eroticism that still manages to befuddle the sensibilities years after it was first released. Mixing softcore sex scenes with costume drama, this example of libertine film making is a great example of a genre that flourished in the Far East for a while until the Chinese government cracked down on it's more explicit facets.

Sex & Zen is the everyday story of a newly married man who goes on a journey...
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Dead or Alive: Final

Posted 25th April 2009 at 11:55 AM by Sam@Cult Labs

Dead or Alive: Final





Apologies: I can only find the trailer with a Spanish narration. Enjoy the visuals. Unless your Spanish that is...


After what seems like an age, Takashi Miike's concluding episode of the Dead or Alive series finallly gots a UK outing on DVD. Tartan released the first two parts during the initial rush to release quirky Japanese extreme cinema, It was a few years before UK fans could get their hands on the concluding...
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Visitor Q

Posted 25th April 2009 at 11:40 AM by Sam@Cult Labs

Visitor Q





Visitor Q was part of a V-Cinema (Japanese "Straight-to-video genre) series on the nature of love


In which the already taboo busting Japanese director of such close to the bone entertainment as Ichi The Killer, Full Metal Yakuza and Imprint decides to try and offend everyone on the face of the earth with a low budget shot on video opus that seeks to scramble your synapses by throwing as much degradation and filth onto...
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Taxidermia

Posted 20th April 2009 at 04:48 PM by Sam@Cult Labs

Taxidermia





I've always loved extremity when it comes to cinema. Not for me the pale bloodless horror of mainstream multiplex horror movies. I'll happily sit and watch movies that offend me. I think I want to be shocked, to shake myself out of my jaded cinematic reverie. From the hideous experiment camp horrors of 'Men Behind The sun' to the brutal flip-flop of Rape-Revenge conventions in the French art-shock movie 'Irreversible', the power of film to...
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