Mal Nosso

This movie had me on the edge of my seat! ( for the first 45 mins). Then it took a dive for the worse. It completely falls apart and becomes another movie. I didnt like the second half at all and I believe this could have been way better. Once again i don't write spoilers so i wont get into the aspect of the movie. I recommend this film without a doubt, But if you make a horror movie stick to horror dont jump all over the place with drama. I wont watch this again.

A middle-aged bold man called Arthur watches a snuff video on the dark web, a bound woman is scalped then shot in the dead. Not pleasant but this certainly started off strongly. Arthur then meets up with Charles the killer in a bar to arrange a hit. Arthur goes home, meanwhile Charlie picks up two lesbian hookers, takes them home and kills them. No spoilers but when Charles carries out his hit it is a real curve-ball (plus a good jump scare), how he manages to shoot two people in the head sat at an indoor table when he is outside is another matter. From now on it gets weird. And boring, the film is very talky and whilst I don't speak Portuguese the acting is poor. I bought this DVD (thankfully cheaply) partly because I liked the sleeve artwork featuring a demonic figure in silhouette, sadly the demon in the film looks terrible. As does a clown who is some kind of supernatural mentor (?) to Arthur. The film did start off reasonably interesting but what then follows is slow, boring and very confusing. I hated it.

Rather slow-paced, the movie takes its time developing its (very few) characters before an equally slow, but quite apotheotic, final.

This is one of the most violent movies I have ever watched. Then, if you are unpleased with vile gore, do no watch it. That does not mean I did not like the film. Indeed, if you deal well with exploitation footage and like horror genre, you will notice that this Brazilian independent film is a gem. With at least four different segments, which complement the previous either as a sequence or as a flashback, the movie transits through various horror subgenres, always with skillful technical outcomes. The first is the most brutal and hard to watch: it is the realistic and gory, in the mondo cane style, but obviously being a slasher. Then, the film becomes quite different, with many supernatural elements, sometimes oneiric ones. Both plot twists do surpise, but prepare espectator in opposite ways. The psychopath sadist killer is one of the most evil characters I have seen in cinema, but he is just a human. At least two others are archetypal figures, and they guide the main character in his quest... in mysterious ways...

From what I saw in the trailer, the movie looked like a terror, like many others. But the script surprised me, there was a reason for things to happen and most of the film is a drama. A choice that can change lives and save people. There are parts of the movie that are kind of gore, but I can only remember two or three extremely violent scenes. I liked the script.