Review of Sexandroide

This ultimately bizarre and sickening experimental French (I think) art-house production is very obscure and almost impossible to find, but that's all right, because nobody is looking for it anyway. "Sexandroide" received three extremely positive and enthusiast user comments around here, but they might just be a tad misleading. I know the three blokes who reviewed it, and their tastes are complete opposite to the tastes of …well, normal people. No offense, guys ;) … The most praising thing I could say about this amateurish & schlocky pseudo-cult film is that it is 'interesting'. It's some kind of anthology film, but the three main stories don't feature any story lines and/or mutual themes. The only things they have in common are tons of full-frontal nudity, blood and a setting that is reminiscent to a typically Parisian "Theatre of the Macabre" stage play. The first segment is unquestionably the best one, as it's straightforward and doesn't waste any time on overlong strip-acts and redundant nude dancing. The thin story centers on a lonely blond girl going to the bathroom in a filthy bar. Someone clearly doesn't like her, as an unseen man operating a voodoo doll terrorizes her to death. The poor woman's clothes are brutally torn off, she undergoes a whole series of painful mutilations and eventually her throat is slit and hung. The end. The second story takes place in an ancient catacomb, where a Gothic lady strips off all her clothes and whips herself repeatedly, before some type of SM master joins her. He takes over the whipping, and expands it with nasty nipple piercing and even an excruciatingly sick eye stabbing. The last chapter is really dull and it doesn't even contain as much gratuitous gore and sickness as the previous two. A vampire bites another Goth girl, and she promptly starts dancing – poorly – to the tunes of two whole Tina Turner songs. The added value of this last segment was completely lost on me. As I said, "Sexandroide" has a handful of interesting sequences, like the piercing of the poor girl's nipple, which looked frighteningly authentic and painful. Camera-work, editing and acting performances are better left ignored. One could really wonder who the hell – in their right state of mind – comes up with repulsive trash like this? … More importantly, who are the freaks that watch it?