A Perfect Child of Satan

I stumbled upon this short film completely on accident. It was apparently A Lucifer Valentino film... I would've seen it earlier if I had ever seen It in Lucifer's filmography. But man am i glad I stumbled into it. Chelsea Chainsaw played the role of deranged harlet beautifully. Just the right tinge of cringe to make you say, wtf?

A Perfect Child of Satan (2012)

** (out of 4)

This short film from Lucifer Valentine has us introduced to a prostitute. The first portion of the film we get to know her and then we see her go meet a client who apparently is much more than that as he's going to change the prostitutes life.

A PERFECT CHILD OF Satan isn't a good film but it's certainly not an awful one. Basically the film tries to be clever because it wants to make us care about this girl and then shock us with the events that follow. I must say that the short was rather predictable and it took a bit too long to get to the twist and its violent aftermath. IF you're a fan of the director's work then you might want to check it out but there's certainly nothing special here.

What's the point? It wasn't boring (although it was awfully made, with terrible editing and a lot of filler content), but it just felt pointless. The first 15 or so minutes are pretty repetitive and have no real purpose, but due to the short length it doesn't get boring. It could still have lost 10 minutes. The last 5 minutes are really the reason you watch it, but what's the point? Is it for the gore? If so, then there's way too many cuts to see it clearly, and the close-ups are just too close up to see much. Is it to be scared? It's not scary, and, although it's mildly unsettling, there's some elements that are laughably bad (mainly the sound and the handling of the obvious twist at the moment it occurs). With that being said, is it so bad it's good? I did get a good laugh out of it, but outside of the one moment where the twist occurs, it's just pretty bad with a lot of random jump cuts and bad camera angles. Nothing to laugh at.

But really, why watch it? There's better movies that you could watch no matter what your reason is for watching it.

Having suffered through every single feature film from rapist/manipulator/abuser/all around bad person/director Lucifer Valentine and despising all of them other than the pseudo-documentary Black Metal Veins which is a horrifying film about heroin addiction and not Valentine's vomit/rape home movies edited into a feature. I figured I would give his one short film, which is also his second highest rated film, a watch because I hate myself and well...

It's predictable and kind of uninteresting but I was never really bored by it, I think the fact that it is a short film really helps in keeping it watchable. As an added plus it doesn't have any vomit or super explicit on screen violence. It actually has a plot to it and tries to develop the main character. The acting ain't too good but to be completely honest, I still found the last 5 or so minutes to be very uncomfortable and, dare I say, disturbing.

Basically the film is about a woman who is a prostitute meeting a guy online and believing he is the man of her dreams and you can tell where it goes from there.

This film and Black Metal Veins are proof that Valentine can make an interesting film without just making fetish gore out of his home movies of rape and vomit.

The man is still a monster mind you and I will never purchase or support his work directly so I'm not gonna recommend this film but If you REALLY want to seek it out just find it somewhere online for free.

Idk why but i liked the story and its actually kinda cool the found footage style is really cool but the end messed me up but i wish this movie was more messed up BUT this movie didnt feel like a typical gore p00rn movie and i didnt really like the vomit gore movies but this one was diffrent it just hit diffrent and the gore and stuff felt real and the acting wasnt even there like it felt like i was watching a real found footage film and the end felt like a snuff film i hate snuff but fake snuff is pretty cool and this movie was pretty darn good i am running out of words but watch it is amazing.