If you disobey me and remain hostile to me I will act against you in wrathful hostility. I, for my part, will discipline you sevenfold for your sins.
Mad God! Mad God! Mad God!
Phil Mad God Tippett!
fear the wrath and debauchery of what
thirty years in the making looks like. enter a world full of decrepit souls, fuming decay, and vial visuals so bleak and hellish. Phil Tippett’s version of Hell within Hell, the inner depths of a destroyed…
🩸 DIVINE PUNISHMENT! 🩸
Having seen and loved Yoshihiro Nishimura’s short film Anatomia Extinction, the less graphic and slightly gory—still masterly—predecessor to Tokyo Gore Police, I knew I was in for some bloody mayhem and what a cataclysmic monstrosity this was!
Set in futuristic Tokyo, self mutilation is now common amongst civilization; it’s bad vs worse, it’s human mutant hybrid engineers vs the scummy privatized Tokyo Police Corporation. Bazooka holding, samurai sword-wielding babe Ruka, seeks her bloody vengeance for her…
It’s the Paris, Texas patch on her denim jacket for me. Neon-lit new wave rape/revenge short taking a very unconventional route showing us a woman turned vigilante with a knife and a mask guard. Just fantastic. When it ended I mega-sighed.
NEED MORE WOMEN DIRECTING REVENGE STORIES.
So far the most promising out of the bunch of the Etheria short films.
THE ACTING IN THIS MOVIE.
THE MUSIC IN THIS MOVIE.
THE CINEMATOGRAPHY IN THIS MOVIE.
THE SPEECHES IN THIS MOVIE.
THE OPENING SCENE IN THIS MOVIE.
THE SCENES IN BETWEEN THIS MOVIE.
THE ENDING SCENE IN THIS MOVIE.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS IN THIS MOVIE.
PAUL DANO IN THIS MOVIE.
My GOD.
Thank you PTA.
I'm practically speechless, but of course, I have to atleast say something besides those things stated above. PTA is a genius, a complete mastermind, I'm a huge…
“Jesus, what the fuck!”
Scott Derrickson went back to his Sinister roots with his looming trees, ghostly kids, and grain footage, offering us his best Stephen King adaptation without it being a Stephen King adaptation. Giving off strong IT vibes with all sorts of supernatural overtones and trauma afflicted kids, strictly heightened by numerous child performances— Madeleine McGraw, cast her in everything now!— that were both stellar and convincing. But… it’s Ethan Hawke for me, Ethan-motherfucking-Hawke; give the man a…
