Visions of Suffering

This movie kinda reminds me of 2000's karim Hussain's movie called: subconscious cruelty. Both are bizarre, wierd surreal and both are going on in someone's head, except this one was very Russian. Not a bad try, worth watching if you are sick and tired of Netflix but nothing compare to the other one.

Visions of Suffering is the purest definition of "style over substance" that I can really think of. There's not much of a plot, and what there is of one is pretty... uh... stupid (some nonsense about vampires, drugs, dreams, goth chicks, and a broken telephone). But you don't watch a film like this for the plot -- it's all about the imagery, right? So, yeah, if you watch this film for its imagery, you're probably going to enjoy yourself -- it's EASILY the most insane movie ever made. Honestly, I thought a lot of the images were brilliant, though about half of them were cheesy (maybe intentionally?) in a seriously "Look how many VST plugins I have on my DV editing program!" kind of way. Note the images themselves aren't bad, it's some of the cheesy filters the director puts them through. Unfortunately, we're probably going to be seeing a lot more of this in the future from other young independent directors...

Really, at two hours and six minutes, the film feels about two times as long as it should be, and the initial shock of what you're seeing starts to turn to annoyance at around the half-way mark. Especially that strobe light -- god, turn that thing off. I can safely say most of it wasn't boring, but a LOT of fat could have been excised, mainly all the shots in the rave. On the other hand, I have to give points to the shockingly effective gore and some hilarious dialogue. And despite some of the cheese in the images, there are some that are unbelievable: one shot near the end of a 3D scythe and a man's testicles blew me away. And that's all I'll say about that...

So, long story short: This film is nothing like El Topo or whatever other films this has been compared to, it's not an "art cult film", it's NOT Lynch-like (I swear, every somewhat weird or somewhat experimental film on IMDb gets called "Lynch-like")... it's more of a bedroom DV experiment with a lot of interesting shots and a lot of silly effects. This film could have been brilliant if a good 30 minute chunk of it was taken out. As it is, it's occasionally genius, oftentimes disturbing, but usually only mildly interesting. It's a film you'll never forget, though, which offers kind of a contradiction: after the movie is over, you will say, "That was the most messed-up film I've ever seen!" for sure, but you won't really remember what made it so messed up. It's just a constant onslaught of visuals and weird sounds, but it too offers something of a contradiction. If the point of the director was to make a bunch of insane visuals, why even waste time with the silly storyline and characters? There are just a few too many elements at work here to be able to define this film as "good"... so, don't go in expecting a "good" film, but if you want to see something more messed-up than Begotten, Pinnochio 964, Tetsuo, Happiness of the Katakuris, and Holy Mountain COMBINED (though, again, it's not really like any of those movies), you should check this out. Definitely worth one watch though I highly doubt even fans of this would want to pop it back in for a bunch of repeated viewings.

One should see this movie for the special effects that are in it almost as if one is watching a movie of David Lynch or Guy Maddin. And wasn't that last one somehow connected to Madonna maybe I am wrong Mets music is very important here as well it's suppresses the people who are Russians and the people who are watching it are the audience's and plenty of sexual references as well all of which weekend say it is important like taking too many drugs or Coke that's how it goes in life it isn't easy but it's the way it is and they keep on dancing and moving their hips like the sexual plays Old Harry's but it's really about the camera work the camera work is one of the greatest in the latest 10 to 20 years ever seen inshallah Hallelujah yes and that is a reason to see the movie for the special effects.

Andrey Iskanov is one of my favorite directors, his films are his own, he has so much style and mostly it works. This is definitely scary, and it's hard not to get sucked into it. The effects are decent, the film itself is very creepy and dreamy, as it is ultimately about our nightmares filtering into reality when it's raining. The darkness and sadness of rain opens our souls up to our inner demons slipping into consciousness

This movie is so creative. I was stimulated by the otherworldly feel of the "Visions of Suffering". Lots of vignettes, special computer effects, as well as practical makeup. Perhaps the most effective part of the film was the sound effects and the really creepy music.

There are parts where you won't be able to take your eyes away from the screen. Loving that. Honestly James Wan should watch this and learn.

This movie is pretty dark and the pacing is slow. As soon as the movie starts you get to watch the protagonist's nightmare. It's pretty intense, loving that too.

There is so much the movie accomplished without the desperate James Wan flash. If you want something genuinely interesting and different, give this one a watch.