CLIMAX OR DANSE MACABRE: "RAVING" UP THE VIOLENCE!

Rating: 5/10 (20 March 2019)

This Gaspar Noe film is purely an artistic attempt, nonetheless not original, maybe completely unintentional its reminiscence of an old story from the classic 70s exploitative film, "I Drink Your Blood". Another film that explores a group of free-spirited (and drug-induced) people but are fed rabid-infested food. They end up going mad and doing violent acts toward each other.
The film is supposed to be set in the mid 90s but the French slang, dance moves and DJ music tracks is completely off. Maybe it was a 90s "Rave" party in a multiverse location? Its definitely the "Party Monster" film reinvented but if you love dancing, this film delivers.
It rivals the recent "Suspiria" remake's attempt to re-imagined its original filmmaker Dario Argento's planned 1978 dance scene that was never filmed. That being said it borrows Argento's upside-down camera shots from his 1996 film, "Stendahl Syndrome". Another Argento reference is that the one of the DJ tracks sounded like a song from Argento's 80s "Phenomena" film.
It takes awhile for the "climax" to fully happen as a notable attempt to deconstruct "dancing" and experimental drug culture (acid, bathsalts, LSD, etc.) but falls weak. It definitely delivers on the emotion of tension, Argento should be proud!