Blatant abuse of subliminals

Rating: Null/10 (3 May 1999)

No wonder some people felt sick to their stomachs.
I rented the movie, and as an earlier comment mentioned, there should have been more shown of the previous crew. The brief flashes were simply not enough.
So being the curious soul that I am, I went through those scenes frame by frame and paid for it dearly.
I am AMAZED and SHOCKED that by simply speeding it up, these people were able to show what they did. If you want to be supremely disgusted, try it. The earlier comment mentioned that it seemed that the past crew was cannibalizing each other.. Oh my, is it ever worse than that. I know the film is supposed to be hellish/satanic/whatever, but I thought it was cheap theatrics to slip in all of those subliminal messages (because they flash by too fast to be caught, unless you watch it frame by frame as I did) Cannibalism, what looked to be crossed with some satanic XXX fun. It's blurry, but that's my interpretation of what I was seeing, and what I was supposed to be gathering from the scene.
Slowing down some of the later flashed scenes reveals more fun, predicting what "hell" would be like for the crew. I assure you that if you slow it down, you will see things that you did NOT see when the scene flashed by.
Cheap and disgusting! I'm so glad Laurence Fishburne went on to do Matrix, and Sam Neill Merlin. They are definitely happier and more prosperous of projects.