2016 Once at the villa, the movie descends into largely pointless scenes of vaguely trippy sexy stuff. Join FandangoVIP. Sadie’s motivations, her whisper-gasp reflexive sexual nature and the film’s nihilistic distance to the viewer remove much of what might have made the story interesting. Eyes wide whatever.
The unanswered question I have regarding this movie is what the thought process behind it being made in the first place was…. It’s a film that leaves a bad aftertaste as it concludes, the kind of film which makes you want to scrub your eyeballs with over cleaner to be rid of the stench. ", I thought this was going to be one thing and it was, but there was a bit more going on than I thought going in.
Francesca is really just kind of there. It will also draw some strong comparisons to Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and even I think that is the case here. 2.5/5, _______________________________________________________Watched as part of the Horrorx52 challenge on Letterboxd09. You will come back to us soon enough. Even with that preconception, I had no idea how fascinating this was going to be - in both good and bad ways. Learn more. Soft core lesbian scenes failed to make the movie titillating and the leading actress had zero appeal. The supporting cast are all equally inept, perhaps a factor more to do with Clark’s screenplay and Goodwill’s direction than what the actors are able to elicit. Mr. Twelftree is wallowing in clever put-downs here, but his grammar is more shocking to me than the movie. How do they get away with it?
Compulsion’s idea of kinkiness is two women having sex, someone being choked, people wearing masks, and ritualistic murder.
I've said it before, I'm…, Kinda like the Lightbringer sword from Game of Thrones: Looks like fire but doesn't put off any heat, "Pain is something to master. Exactly how does one join a secret murder sex cult? Insider Perks. Earn 125 points on every ticket you buy.
The movie doesn’t care. They usually don’t connect to anything or move the story along, they just look cool.
Thrillers are, by their very nature, meant to also be thrilling, and Compulsion is anything but. Movie Review – Compulsion (2016) Principal Cast : Analeigh Tipton, Nina Senicar, Marta Gasatini, Jakob Cedergren, Jan Bivjoet, Peter Gadiot, Anita Kravos, Valentin Merlet. Erotic Horror________________________________________________________. The film’s solemnified grandiosity is unearned, the fabulous Italian locations far more interesting than the people inhabiting them in this film. And I'm not sure what all else. Uh oh.
© Letterboxd Limited. It's very clear Sadie has one goal in mind, and it's to be as art house as it fucking can. Coming out of this movie I could see what kind of movie it wanted to be, which is an erotic mystery thriller in the vein of Eyes Wide Shut, but the execution was just not right. The film is utterly absent substance, unless that substance is sexy bodily fluids. Movie Reviews; Star Wars Guide; Awards Watch; Indie Movie Guide; Family Guide; House Of Screams; Weekend Ticket; My VIP Account. I have to agree that Compulsion isn’t much of a movie. The film makes no sense whatsoever, and the focus on sexual violence for pleasure is startlingly off-putting here, a dark, dangerous narrative road for a film to take in today’s cinematic landscape. COMPULSION - Kritik ÁLEX DE LA IGLESIA, JAUME BALAGUERÓ und PACO PLAZA - alles namhafte Größen im spanischen Horror-Genre, die… The cinematography looks great but has no soul. Characters are generic, Tipton makes a forlorn and insufficient leading lady, and the film’s decadence and sexually perverse staging lack any kind of resonance or complexity beyond the limited development on the screen. Ever since…. Rate This Movie: SYNOPSIS: The lives of two neighbours within an apartment complex couldn’t be more different than night and day. Share. Have you ever noticed that there appears to be a direct tie between the erotic and the monstrous? Starring: Bradford Dillman, Dean Stockwell, Diane Varsi, Orson Welles.
At what point did all movies decide that the best way to depict kinky sex is by everyone wearing fancy masks? There’s no real point to Compulsion at all. Why? The plot is just riddled with holes and the ending is made clearly apparent early on. Not to wallow in. Compulsion has nothing going for it. Rack up 500 points and you'll score a $5 reward for more movies. Except not, because it's kind of boring. There is nothing to Compulsion, neither story nor titillation nor good representation of WLW. The location scout is the MVP of the movie as the villa they shoot at is beautiful.
It’s not as if poor character work is limited to Francesca though. What the film has going for it is mostly the cinematography. Like Nic Refn made an EYES WIDE SHUT knock off for Skinemax. There’s no reason to see it. i am on a roll this monthhhhhhhhhh <33333333. It’s borderline obnoxious, this film, with its hackneyed “horror” elements and sense of distasteful psychological torment within the walls of such a magnificent location – the villa the film occurs in is beautiful indeed – and I lost count of the number of times I checked the “remaining time” on my player. There’s not even any explanation of this whole sex cult thing Sadie finds herself at the centre of. Why do they sacrifice people? Hey, cut this film a little slack, will you? Film data from TMDb.
It looks fantastic. Here, she shoulders the film and her weakness as an actress shows. Enter your email address to subscribe and receive notifications of new posts by email. That quality makes way for some absolutely mesmerising cinematography by Davig Ungaro, like seriously beautiful, ethereal orchestral music and experimental segments that had me tuned in but all in all it comes across like the filmmakers are trying way too hard to achieve that kind of avant garde process that works best when it comes naturally. It was beautifully put together, and sorry – you have to give the creators a lot of credit. You can probably catch the sex scenes on Pornhub and skip the rest, you’ll have a better time. Rated the #39 best film of 1959, and #3360 in the greatest all-time movies (according to RYM users). However, Thierry is there to be used as a sacrifice because that’s what kinky sex is, I guess. Casual titillation and the chance to see star Analeigh Tipton’s nude form is about Compulsion’s only drawcard, what with its Basic Instinct-lite tone and hamfisted Eyes Wide Shut excuse for sexually taboo behaviour being so clumsily handled it begs the question as to who not only edited this film, but how did it ever get released? Mobile site.
I don't believe in guilty pleasures, but this is the sort of movie that comes to mind when I think of the term. A better attempt to hide the true nature of whole trip could have added a lot of doubt and tension to the film. If you’re reading this, you’ve now learned that Rodney loves movies and will continue to write about them until he falls over dead. The visuals are better than the story because that’s clearly where the focus is for this movie. It will also draw some strong comparisons to Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and even I think that is the case here. Psycho-sexual thrillers are a decidedly rare beast in Hollywood these days, at least the prominent ones anyway. i feel as if the producers were trying a bit too hard to make this some ethereal, avant-garde type movie with the orchestral music and massive castle and the jewelled clothes. Report this film. Enjoy it for those things if you like those sorts of things and don't bother feeling guilty about it. Synopsis: A young woman, a former lover, and another of his exes hook up at an exotic Italian villa for a weekend of sexual discovery. I just wish more thought had gone into the plot. Sadie also brings along Francesca, a dancer she meets. Near the end of the film, Theirry shows up. But really, I didn’t mind this. Beyond the aggressive amount of objectification this movie does to its female actors and the lengthy sex scenes between Sadie and Francesca, the fact that Francesca is so unimportant to the narrative proves how little the director regards women, female sexuality or the possibility or queer sexuality. It's not totally clear, but then there are a lot of pills ingested that make the lead not really reliable as far as what she's…. If you’re doing this kind of film, you need to do it right, and Compulsion doesn’t. The sex scenes are not sexy. Genres: Crime, Legal Drama. Compulsion is a hodgepodge of stupid and a barely comprehensible lethargy of inaction. I think more people will dislike this than they do enjoy it. Compulsion is a movie that will no doubt divide audiences.
The mix of mystery and murder, the hint of animalistic vengeance in Basic Instinct tapped into the world’s collective fear of sex used as a weapon. The story makes no sense, the character aren’t enjoyable or appreciably interesting, and the drab, nigh monochromatic tone the film takes with its visuals and story ruin any sense of sensuality or interesting sexual flavour. It’s largely Sadie choosing between her two male lovers. To sum this movie up quickly, it has some surprisingly nice shots and a few okay scenes. On a further negative note, Tipton’s decision to get her tits out in this film is particularly egregious, as poor a career decision as Taylor Kitsch’s to make Battleship. Why was she wearing a necklace on her face?
Yep did check the run time a few times & largely agree with your review but your choice of vocabulary is almost as obnoxious as the film itself. Overall not a good a movie at all, but not the worst I’ve ever seen. At the end, Alex, in the car, doesn’t look at Sadie. How did this all originate? I think more people will dislike this than they do enjoy it. Someone saw Eyes Wide Shut too many times in art school. The Mad Movie Man. Sadie—a young female novelist—and an enigmatic woman named Francesca, are enticed by an ex-lover to join him at his Italian villa for a weekend celebration being held to honor the release of Sadie's latest book.
I doubt that’s what Goodwill and Tipton hoped for though; Compulsion is a trainwreck of boobs and blood and inane “thrills” as a result. Directed by: Richard Fleischer. Notable and not-so-notable BDSM themed movies. Twitter Facebook Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email.
When you’re kinda horny and curious at 3am and you’re browsing Showtime for a come up...this really delivered. 2010s 2018 Analeigh Tipton compulsion country: UK Craig Goodwill genre: drama genre: thriller language: english Marta Gastini negative review. Please consider supporting the site by purchasing your WLW movies through any of the amazon affiliate links. It's shallow, meaningless, and nothing but beautiful people wearing beautiful clothes in beautiful places until everything stops being beautiful, or becomes beautiful in a different sort of way, if you really insist on imparting meaning here. Compulsion is about Sadie, a writer of erotic memoirs. Sadie and the other guests frequently imbibe hallucinogenic drugs. Buy Movies.