Horsehead

By certain aspects, "Horsehead" made for me thought of the Dario Argento's Inferno : both movies have in common to be enigmatic, fascinating, of a total pictorial beauty, but also to rather hermetic and difficult to access.

Horsehead risks hardly to embarrass and to divide the spectators. The movie is not indeed an entertainment popcorn and will ask a real effort of attention and especially an emotional participation and a total dumping in its universe.

Horsehead indeed takes the shape of a nightmare in the shape of mysterious puzzle, plunging her heroine into a terrible, dreamlike, fantastical, gory and erotic universe.

Following the example of "Lords of Salem" (Rob Zombie - 2012), Horsehead is for my part one of the most interesting proposals of the fantastic movies seen for a long time.

(sorry for my English...)

This movie is indeed well done! The acting was good, the scenes and locations were perfect! The symbolism. And just the general quality of the movie was outstanding! I just had difficulty knowing what was going on much of the time. Also, there wasn't good flow for me. I had to watch it separate days to finish. Horsehead was a beautiful piece of cinematic art that wasn't that entertaining as a movie.

This is a bizarre movie that does a very good job depicting the nature of the nightmare, not the bad dream itself, rather the malicious entity that causes sleep paralysis and bedevils the victim with awful dreams. If you are unfamiliar with the folklore I suggest you look it up as that knowledge may congeal the seemingly disjointed story in your mind.

The imagery was beautiful while the story was rather simplistic, although I feel if the story was more complicated it may have distracted from the nature of the nightmare (horsehead) itself. There is so much communicated through the nightmare images that no narrative is needed to explain the journey if you are acquainted with the folklore.

I am usually generous with stars here, so I hope this is a good explanation of why I give it a 7 star review.

My first view of this, was a little more entertaining than the few time's I tried to re watch this. I found it interesting and it had cool sequences of her nightmares that were pretty intriguing. I liked it and thought that was interesting. Sadly I have re watched it a few times and don't usually finish it.

It seems like a good movie, but I guess I don't get it and the theme's are more interesting to me since I don't fully get it. I'll be honest I rarely get movies fully and like the actor's and visuals or settings way more than the content, so detailed content and further meaning usually buzz my tower at high speed and then are gone... lol.

Give it a try for horror with deep meaning... I think. Hopefully you like it, I almost did... but I still give it a chance now and then for the hope I will since it made such a good first impression.

While for some the most famous Horsehead will still remain one that can be seen in Godfather, is this movie an "offer you can't refuse" to watch? That depends on your viewing taste obviously. The movie itself has wicked ideas and some crazy story elements to it, that are not something you are used to see in "normal" movies.

It's still not really great, even though the acting is decent enough and there are enough good effects (not really for the squeamish, even if there are more explicit movies out there). There's also nudity involved, though with all craziness going on, I'm not sure that's something to be upset about or looking forward to. Decent effort, that might not make sense to everybody (which I reckon was intended)