After reading every other review on IMDb I really thought this was the film I've been searching for all my life. I love horror films and collect all the previously banned films, including the most notorious ones such as Cannibal Holocaust, Guinea Pig, etc. So you can imagine my excitement when I seen it on ebay and managed to win the auction.
I even printed off the reviews while I was waiting for the DVD to be delivered and read them to my friends and colleagues at work, they too were intrigued to hear lines like, "I seen this film 3 weeks ago now and still there is a sense of discomfort" or "I seen this film at a film festival but missed the last half of the film and the following two short movies as I had to keep my head in-between my legs to avoid fainting", oh and my favourite "few filmsleave you feeling destroyed afterwards", that one really sold it to me.
To say I was disappointed is an understatement. The basic story is, once upon a time a man lived in a village with his wife and baby. He was also having an affair and one night his wife walked in while he was doing the dirty deed with his lover. In the struggle that then ensued he accidentally killed his wife and his lover, panicked and then proceeded to burn down the village to cover up what he'd done. Only he left his baby to burn too. As he was escaping the village a wizard type guy saw him and realisng what he'd done,placed a curse (a centipede curse) on him and his family. Skip forward to present day and his granddaughter his fallen fowl to the curse with her brother now on the trail to find out what happened to her and to discover what the 'shameful' thing was that his grandfather carried out at the village all those years ago.
The rest of the film is about random wizard/priest guys and has one cool scene where a priest appears to perform some sort of ritual where he makes a naked pregnant girl barf/abort scorpions, that was pretty horrific and impressed me. Then there is the final scene, which again going back to the other reviews I read, was supposed to be so horrific that it "will never leave you". Another major let down. Just a girl puking some centipedes, yeah it's kinda gross but I've seen far worse.
In conclusion, if I had never read these reviews and just stumbled across it I probably would have quite enjoyed it, but after all the hype I don't think I've ever been so disappointed with a film. So for anyone out there who has seen all the big 'nasties' such as Holocaust, The Guinea Pigs, Mordum August Underground, etc. and read these reviews, don't be fooled like I was into thinking you found a film that will disturb you, because it won't.
Marks out of 10 as film I'd never heard anything about = 6
Marks out of 10 as film I expected so much from after reading the reviews = 2
I even printed off the reviews while I was waiting for the DVD to be delivered and read them to my friends and colleagues at work, they too were intrigued to hear lines like, "I seen this film 3 weeks ago now and still there is a sense of discomfort" or "I seen this film at a film festival but missed the last half of the film and the following two short movies as I had to keep my head in-between my legs to avoid fainting", oh and my favourite "few filmsleave you feeling destroyed afterwards", that one really sold it to me.
To say I was disappointed is an understatement. The basic story is, once upon a time a man lived in a village with his wife and baby. He was also having an affair and one night his wife walked in while he was doing the dirty deed with his lover. In the struggle that then ensued he accidentally killed his wife and his lover, panicked and then proceeded to burn down the village to cover up what he'd done. Only he left his baby to burn too. As he was escaping the village a wizard type guy saw him and realisng what he'd done,placed a curse (a centipede curse) on him and his family. Skip forward to present day and his granddaughter his fallen fowl to the curse with her brother now on the trail to find out what happened to her and to discover what the 'shameful' thing was that his grandfather carried out at the village all those years ago.
The rest of the film is about random wizard/priest guys and has one cool scene where a priest appears to perform some sort of ritual where he makes a naked pregnant girl barf/abort scorpions, that was pretty horrific and impressed me. Then there is the final scene, which again going back to the other reviews I read, was supposed to be so horrific that it "will never leave you". Another major let down. Just a girl puking some centipedes, yeah it's kinda gross but I've seen far worse.
In conclusion, if I had never read these reviews and just stumbled across it I probably would have quite enjoyed it, but after all the hype I don't think I've ever been so disappointed with a film. So for anyone out there who has seen all the big 'nasties' such as Holocaust, The Guinea Pigs, Mordum August Underground, etc. and read these reviews, don't be fooled like I was into thinking you found a film that will disturb you, because it won't.
Marks out of 10 as film I'd never heard anything about = 6
Marks out of 10 as film I expected so much from after reading the reviews = 2