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Post by gorepolice on Mar 2, 2013 12:04:52 GMT -5
"Set against Sin City, Las Vegas, "Murder-Set-Pieces" tells the story of a fashion photographer whose vocation is murder - a voyeuristic nightmare of blood, sex and brutality."
I came across a full page ad for this movie years ago while looking through the Village Voice saying how it was brutal, gory and completely offensive. Needless to say, me and my sister HAD to go see this film. Apparently, only about 3 theaters in the U.S. were showing it, and one of them happened to be here in NYC.
I remember going in there were only about 4 or 5 other people, and 2 of them were making jokes about how my sister (obviously the only female in there) would be squeamish and wouldn't be able to take it. Those 2 people left halfway through the film. We stayed and enjoyed every uncomfortable minute of it.
This is one seriously messed up movie. Its got gore, rape, necrophilia, and child murder just to name a few. This film has been released in 2 different versions, both with their share of problems. The theatrical release is 105 minutes long, the unrated director's cut is 90 minutes, and the R rated version is 83 minutes.
I own the unrated version and while I'm glad the gore is all there, lots of set up stuff is missing. You don't see how he meets and baits most of his victims, and the entire scene where he goes to the fortune teller is gone. Some of these scenes are in the R rated cut however. Unfortunately, the theatrical version of this film has never been released.
I would definitely NOT recommend the R rated cut, but the unrated version makes the film seem like a pointless gore fest and is also damn near impossible to find. Oh well, at least I had an awesome time seeing it in the theater.
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Post by endo on Mar 2, 2013 15:14:46 GMT -5
That sounds like something I need to see. Sounds like one of those movies I won't want to keep watching but will have to, lol. Just the other day I watched Begotten, because I was on some site and it was on a list of the most disturbing horror films ever. It was even featured in one of Marilyn Manson's videos. I don't know what exactly I was seeing, but I didn't think it was disturbing or even scary. It was bloody and a lot of cutting with razors, but it's filmed so grainily that you can't see any detail. So, that was disappointing.
I'll see if I can track this one down somewhere.
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Post by gorepolice on Mar 2, 2013 17:21:43 GMT -5
Begotten is one of the most pointless and boring things I ever watched. There was some blood, but all I remember was a lot of walking and graininess.
I really wish there was a DVD with the full version of this film. It just doesn't have the same feel in either of these formats.
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Post by endo on Mar 2, 2013 17:39:40 GMT -5
There's a guy on the Pirate Bay that has this movie up. His description is Swedish I think, but at the end it says NC-17, which according to IMDB is how it was released in theaters. What scenes could I look for to know if it is indeed the NC-17 version? You said the fortune teller scene, so if that's in it that's good, but how do I know I'm getting all the gore?
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Post by gorepolice on Mar 2, 2013 18:42:39 GMT -5
Does it have a run time? You'll know what you're getting based off of that.
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Post by endo on Mar 2, 2013 18:48:02 GMT -5
No run time. I used Google translate and got this...
Horror from 2004
With its startling violence are Murder-Set-Pieces to the most notorious class movies. We are thrown into the depraved life of the Nazi "photographer" who amuses himself by photographing young girls in his studio. But when their beauty makes the excitement of the big hit he was an uncontrollable desire to kill! His anger and frustration resulting in sadistic rape, prolonged torture, perverse humiliation and murder. He does not stop until the screams fade out. And the "photographer" likes to hear beautiful girls scream ... Murder-Set-Pieces is gore horror with the most prospective journalists to leave salons. When Lionsgate (who also did "Saw"-successes) released the film in the U.S. in 2007, had to be cut down as much as 23 minutes! No other film in history has had such drastic measures to avoid the U.S. "NC-17" limit.
So, I don't know what to make of that. Hard to tell. I can just get the unrated one if this isn't the full one, pointless gore is OK.
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Post by gorepolice on Mar 2, 2013 18:54:47 GMT -5
I have no idea what to make of that either. I guess you can take a chance and see what you end up with. The run time will let you know what you're in for. The NC-17 theatrical cut was never released, but if you somehow end up getting that I'd want a copy myself.
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Post by endo on Mar 2, 2013 18:57:46 GMT -5
Alright, I'll get this one. I'll let you know the run time after it finishes. Hopefully we'll have a winner.
Ah man, I just translated some of the comments, this is a DVD rip. So not the one you saw I'm guessing. Now I at least hope it's unrated, he doesn't say anywhere about that.
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Post by gorepolice on Mar 2, 2013 19:07:43 GMT -5
I don't think 97% of the people who saw this film watched the version I did lol.
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Post by endo on Mar 2, 2013 19:12:51 GMT -5
You caught it at the right time. If this one is at least unrated, I can live with that. But I'd love to see the full version.
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Post by gorepolice on Mar 2, 2013 19:16:45 GMT -5
I'd love to own the full version. I guess I'll settle for having this director's cut though.
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Post by NDX on Mar 2, 2013 19:55:22 GMT -5
This is the chainsaw to the face movie you told me about years ago, isn't it?
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Post by endo on Mar 2, 2013 20:20:51 GMT -5
Oh, I gotta see this.
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Post by gorepolice on Mar 3, 2013 18:57:31 GMT -5
It is indeed the chainsaw to the face movie.
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Post by NDX on Mar 3, 2013 19:13:34 GMT -5
Yeah, still gonna pass on this one. I don't have the stomach for all that.
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