Gratuitously violent

Rating: 1/10 (20 February 2006)

I found this film to be gratuitously violent and I wonder about the physiological workings of the minds that constructed it. The film is very well made and the actors play their parts extremely well and the imagery is exceptionally powerful. However, I watched it waiting for a conclusion and found none, at the end of the movie I realised that this was simply a journey designed to gratify the minds of people who feed on the unspeakable.
Presented in black and white, which has been processed to resemble chrome/black/white with few shades of grey. Blood and guts are presented in either red or yellow and the face of a sick deviant is entirely presented in a yellow wash. There are more subtle additions as the eyes of certain actors turn from b/w to their true colour and then back again. Obviously designed to capture the horror of the magazines it has been taken from, there were scenes of torture that could possibly have disgusted Edgar Allen Poe.
I don't know how far downwards Hollywood is going to have to go to create the next level of horror, as there is not much more that we can be desensitised to.