Little Deaths

"Little Deaths" is composed by three segments with short stories of sex, violence, death and revenge in England.

1st segment: "House & Home" Richard Gull (Luke de Lacey) and his wife Victoria Gull (Siubhan Harrison) claim that are good Samaritans and invite the starving homeless Sorrow (Holly Lucas) to have a bath and dinner with them at home. However they spike the wine and when Sorrow wakes up, she is tied naked on a bed in the basement. Richard abuses of her and Victoria stays with Sorrow humiliating her while he has a shower. He hears a scream and when he arrives in the basement, he has a gruesome surprise. "House & Home" is the best of the three segments and I really had a great surprise with the unexpected conclusion of this sick tale of humiliation. My vote is eight.

2nd segment: "Mutant Tool" The former addicted prostitute Jen (Jodie Jameson) lives with her former pimp and drug dealer Frank (Daniel Brocklebank), who also abducts persons to steal their kidneys to deliver to Dr. Reese (Brendan Gregory). Jen gives her best efforts to stay clean and refuses to meet clients from the former "agency" where she worked. When Frank asks her to go to Dr. Reese, he gives some tablets for her. Jen has headaches and nightmares and she returns to Dr. Reese, but soon she discovers the truth about the tablets that Dr. Reese gave to her. "Mutant Tool" is the weakest segment, with a confused and depressing story of drugs, addictions and abductions. My vote is four.

3rd segment: "Bitch" The receptionist Claire (Kate Braithwaite) is addicted in kinky sex with her mate Pete (Tom Sawyer). She has a phobia with dogs and can only satisfy herself with twisted sex. Pete asks her to have normal sex but she invites him to have a threesome with their friend Al (Tommy Carey). Pete does not accept and she has sex with Al anyway. Pete plots revenge against his beloved woman. "Bitch" is an erotic tale of revenge totally based on twisted sex and the second best segment. The conclusion is scary with the bitch Claire transformed literally in a bitch. My vote is seven.

"Little Deaths" is only recommended for very specific audiences. My vote is seven

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When I saw the DVD at the shop I never heard or seen any review of it. But reading what was written on the back I bought it and I must say, I didn't regret it. It's a combination of 3 short stories directed by the writer of "Summer's Blood" for example. And were Summer's Blood was low on anything these 3 stories really deliver on weirdness and gore. The first part is the bloodiest one. Part 1 and 2 couldn't really happen but still they deliver the horror you are waiting for. The directors never shade away to show it all, red stuff, blood, and a lot of nudity. The first story as I said is for me the best part, definitely not for the squeamish, the second story is all about experiments done by Nazis and the last part is something weird but the score is so great. All stories have something on their own, one to watch...

This is a collection of 3 short films that loosely touch on their subjects of rather twisted stories about sex and death. I guess "Little Deaths" is a good title for the movie considering that the French use these words as a metaphor for orgasm. So the title fits each short in this collection.

It starts off with the shortest of the three movies entitled "House and home" which could fit into any horror anthology. The plot is paper-thin and revolves around a twisted rich and religious couple that lures homeless girls in for their sick pleasure but obviously messed with the wrong girl here. Honestly, this short is not too special... at first the couples dysfunctionality and the hints on their elitist self-conception seemed interesting (with the twist ending it could serve as a kind of class war metaphor) but it just leads nowhere. What still keeps this interesting is the great visuals and the performance of the actress playing the homeless girl. The shots of her on the bed are unmatched throughout the rest of the movie.

Second is a pretty strange short about Nazi Doctor experiments, a drug made from the semen harvested from a poor human lab rat fed with human kidneys and a junkie prostitute trying a rehab on the new drug and regretting it. This one is rather on the gritty side visually, throws in some esoteric elements and hints on the connection of all characters involved and how the drug makes the users see the truth when being touched. Its driven by the rather sick central idea and the images of the human lab rat but ultimately falls apart with a "twist" ending that make no sense at all and ruined the whole thing for me because there's unconnected dots all over the place. The sexual element in this story feels squeezed into the plot for the sake of it, so the whole story feels forced and fake and definitely is the weakest link in this 3-part-chain.

Third off is Simon Rumleys bit entitled "Bitch". This one is a rather bleak drama about sexual perversion, power play and dependency. Dogs play a dominant role in the plot, so the title has some irony to it. The look of this part is also on the gritty side, playing a lot with tints which are overused but work well in some key scenes. Like "Red, white and blue" this is rather a character study culminating in a revenge that ends with no winners at all. Definitely the best of all three with a great and high impact finale that benefits from the perfect choice of music.

Usually these anthology movies fall apart but despite some flaws I can sure recommend it for Rumleys bit as well as for the great cinematography and acting of the first "House and Home" part. So check it out if you are into the twisted stuff where drama meets horror.

So first off, we are dealing with a VHS type movie. (VHS the Horro franchise). Pretty much, 3 different short movies forced into one. I can tell you, minus the second story, everything else kinda sucked. Even the second story wasn't good, but at least was bizzarely unique in it's own twisted sense.

The acting is a mixed bag some are overacting, some are underacting. The writing. Honestly i think all three of these short films would of been way better off as full lenght films. I feel like having them shortened like this pulls out the magic that these movies could of had. Let me start with first story.

First story. A weird couple torture a homeless chick, Guinea Pig style kind of, and then she turns out to be a zombie, and other homeless people are zombies. That's the whole plot. I can say that the gore is weak but okay, and everything else sucked. None characters have any depth or any reason to be there. It was shock for the sake of being shocking and it was just kinda pointless and dull. I can say the acting was fine. The camera work was fine. The plot needed a lot of work and depth into these characters, why were the homeless "zombies"? Why did the couple decide to torture the homeless chick?? I was about to say it felt like a remake of VHS 1 first story, but then i saw VHS was released in 2012. But still it felt empty.

Second story. The only story i kinda enjoyed. Not because of the plot, just because how weird it is. Pretty much we got a chick with her boyfriend. She gets into pills to stop taking drugs. However, these pills are made out of a human being that has a Nazi huge shaft attached to him-her-it and this connects her to having hallucionations to the creature. I dont want to spoiler more. I can say that the plot makes not a lot of sense but hey it was unique and interesting to say the least. It's bizzare and not something you'd often see in horror movies. The acting was kind of wooden, the camera work was fine. I just wish we had a bit more informations on how exactly the pills stuff began? A bit more depth in that sector but over all this could have it's own movie with more depth and logic put into it.

Third story. This feels like totally out of left field. Both first and second stories have elements of horror in them. This, has none of that. Instead this is a drama about a couple that has a weird relationship. The girlfriend treats her boyfriend like a dog. Literally. And she always is toxic towards him, and she is treating him like he is her toy in a way. This crosses the line of her boyfriend, so he tied her up, and put meat on her naked body, and forced like 5-6 dogs onto her, and she has a huge fear of dogs, what is happening to her is unclear and i am kinda glad i did not had to see that bs. Over all this story is just ridiculous and i hated every second of it. It feels like a completely different idea then the two other tiny films. Also! Camera work in this is terrible. Everything is muffled in a blue weird gradient and it makes the scenes look way uglier.

Ultimately No i can not recommend this. I would just stay and watch the V/H/S films to be honest with you, or Tales of Halloween, both of those films are short films merged together, but they are way more interesting then what we had here. All of this felt like a forced shocker that kinda fails at being shocking at least to me, but then again it takes a lot to get me to that stage.

A trilogy of tales in the old anthology mode, the first offering, "House and Home" has an affluent couple bored by mundane lives, and looking for a little fun. The husband brings home a homeless woman for a sex game. The woman provides some entertainment and this segment has a small twist of an ending; very average, overall a 5/10' Story number 2 involves a woman, a hooker and former junkie who is recovering with the help of a boyfriend, her previous pimp, now involved in bizarre medical experimentation's with a doctor using a new drug for detox. It gets a bit sadistic and I would give it a 6/10.

Number 3 is "Bitch" a couple behaving badly, including the boyfriend wearing a dog mask. This one is a complete waste of time and pointless. The last five minutes is wickedly clever but the lead up is tedious and silly. A 3/10.