1985 ‘Silip’ Directed by Elwood Perez
In the remote countryside of Ilongo, various women are sexually abused by local men. Two sisters meet Simon, the most attractive man in the village, and fight over him - one constantly haunted by Catholic dogma because of the abuse she suffered previously.
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Nobody flings sand at my daughters cunt.
Raw and untamed indeed! I am floored. What a remarkable film. Silip is so much more than just an exploitation movie. It explores what it means to be human, shows the hypocrisy of religion, while also shining a light on the pains of becoming an adult (here with slightly more decapitations perhaps than in real life.)
The final act is perhaps the sleaziest and most powerful one that I have seen in quite some time.
I am truly flabbergasted..
An instant favourite.
This hasn't lost any of its potency. Daughters of Eve remains one of the sleaziest/boundary shattering movies I have ever seen. You know you are in for an intense viewing experience when a movie opens with the actual beating/slaughter of a buffalo (repugnant of course, but it does serve a purpose in the overarching story). Everything that follows after that scene is just as disturbing in its own right.
There really isn't anything else like it.
A big thanks to Bob McCully for sending me his blu-ray copy. You are a legend, mate!
Holy fuck, this is absolutely terrific. Without a doubt one of the sleaziest films I’ve ever seen. Transcends exploitation. Unforgettable, incredibly moving, and wholly original. Bold, disturbing, and beautiful. The ending is truly horrific and powerful as hell. Almost impossible for me to explain how fantastic this is. Never seen anything quite like it. Not many films impact me like this did, a pure work of art. A genuine masterpiece and an instant all time favorite of mine. Loved everything about this.
Everyone go buy the Mondo Macabro blu ray, it looks fuckin’ amazing.
I can't give it a perfect score because of that beginning, which I wasn't aware of (an ox is slaughtered brutally) but I had no idea what to expect from it. It's a hypocritical sexual religious experience. The absolute pain of horniness and devotion. There's weird stuff, plenty of uncomfortable subject matter, sleazy in ways that make sleazy almost blush. I can't recommend to everyone but jeez 🤯🤯🤯
80s exploi inquest into the nature of sin, unchecked libidinal urges, the possessiveness of ego, male primacy and the scapegoating of women as victims of collective guilt in a Filipino seaside village community. A tough one to rate since it opens with a needlessly incompetent bludgeoning and bleeding of a buffalo. I am capable of watching the bodily dismemberment of deceased animals, but as a rule this kind of reckless violence done to them while they are actually living coupled with its filming for artistic purposes or otherwise is bottom line inexcusable. That was a very shitty way to open a film and it cast a sickly shadow over its remainder. But cultural relativism I guess? And it is admittedly…
On my quest to watch every Mondo Macabro release, this one stuck out both because of the clips in that montage trailer they stick on every disc, and because of that sexy cover (that kind of hair wet is always hot). Recently I’ve been trying to explore their films about pairs of women (or girls) against the world - Alucarda I loved, and I ordered Don’t Deliver Us From Evil with this but by accident they sent Don’t Open Till Christmas.
The narrative is one of those where a chain of events is set in motion and dread builds until it is released. Here, the literal catalyst is the arrival of Selda back to her home village, on a remote…
HoopTober Ocho Film 9/31
Country: Philippines
Genre: Asian Horror
On the surface SILIP might seem like a sexploitation film but there’s something terrifyingly different underneath all the grinding going on in the remote countryside of Ilocos region.
DAUGHTERS OF EVE makes for an entertaining viewing, as Filipino director Elwood Pérez kept things unpredictable but also delivered a genuinely interesting story and some rather impressive compositions. Johnny Araojo's camera is very effective in how it pulls you into the dusty beach village. As far as the content of the film goes, there’s some strong stuff in here — full frontal erect male nudity, naked children, slaughtered animals, mass sexual assault, bloody violence, decapitation, murders and deaths by burning but the payoff…
Mondo Macabro caused a lot of jaws to hit the floor back in 2007 when it released this brutal, beautiful, and very divisive story of survival and sexual mania churned out during the heyday of Filipino sleaze alongside brain-burners like Snake Sisters. The new Blu-ray reissue makes for a ripe occasion to revisit this one, which still smacks you across the head in the opening scene with one of the most heinous scenes of real animal slaughter in movie history. (Skip past the first five minutes if it's beyond your threshold, and for most people it justifiably will be.) After that it's off to the races with sweaty, sordid tale of three different women affected by the town stud and some ticked-off kids with an axe to grind. Most definitely not for everyone, but impossible to forget and a key entry in the history of extreme cinema. mondo-digital.com/silip.html
Sometimes looking at a cover will give you a specific feeling about a movie. I first saw this on the shelf of the video rental store in my city years ago and didn't think much, as there was much more outlandish Indonesian fare on either side of it calling to me.
Years later, when I started doing cataloging work for said rental store, I saw it on a shift and felt my stomach drop. The cover inspired a new dread that I could finally realize. I made a point to rent it that night and see what it was all about, not knowing what to really expect.
I was brutalized. The internal conflict of Tonya, grappling with her sexual desire…
Nunsploitation by way of Filipino folk horror. A study of guilt, shame, repression, and lust. Felt like it could have been an entry in Pasolini’s would-be “Trilogy of Death.” Besides a couple of characters, the atmosphere feels pretty timeless, with its huts and buffalo and sand and sea and such.
Opens with a nasty bit of animal violence which is at least used to make the point that life is ugly and you must recognize these things exist, which the rest of the film hammers in. Definitely a transgressive film that will make a lot of people feel uncomfortable.
This happens to be another initiation story, a theme I’ve been noticing in a good number of the erotic horror movies I watch. The title makes sense since this is all about complicity in sin and an inability to escape it.
This movie opens with the slaughter of a water buffalo...just because. Or maybe it’s supposed to be foreshadowing. The village hunk takes his freshly slaughtered meat back to his hut where the whole village apparently lusts after this dude. Including two sisters. One who’s insanely jealous and possessive of him and the other who’s extremely religious and is fighting her carnal desires. A friend returns to the village after being gone a few years all westernized now and everyone starts questioning their sexuality. The first half of this film is kind of a typical skin flick. Plenty of nudity and some random fornicating. The second half starts to get wild and almost turns into a weird horror film. Lots of…
2018 Cult Movie Challenge - Week 38
There's a lot of shouting, shagging and abuse but not much in terms of actual story. I really couldn't get into this; it's just rather grotesque for the sake of it. I did just have this on in the background so probably missed a fair bit of whatever plot was there but for what its worth the cinematography was pretty decent.
