Making a good horror flick is not easy, and I'll never make a statement saying otherwise. There's a certain.. artistic awareness and comprehension you need of the genre to even be able to make satire of it. I've seen the film Found on which this was based upon (a film within a film), and, while my edgelord 18 year old self loved the film for its gore, and shock value, I've come to respect the performance and twists, even the outta nowhere coming-of-age story it presented on a seemingly rather low budget. Now, as my googling capabilities have determined, the film was both written and directed by the dude who did special effects for Found, and it was even financed by a kickstarter which is really neat. The problem is, I don't think he had the first clue about what made the.. uh.. original a pretty decent horror film.
Having stated before, I'm a pretty hardcore edgelord. No gore in film is enough to make me feel uncomfortable, and I've seen just about all the practical effects can offer. What my uncreative little frontal cortex understands of filmmaking is, the moment you show your goriest scene in the first few minutes, it kinda loses it's edge later on.
Focusing on the plot- it's the exact same serial killer story you've seen every time since Jack the Ripper felt like he appreciated the confines of a womb. Kid gets put in an absurdly aggressive home with mom and sister tormenting him emotionally and sexually and one (1) decapitated rabbit propels him on his crusade of vengeance. Now let me get this straight- the acts of murder can be done so well in a psychological sense, adding to the mental state of the killer as the story progresses, as can be seen in Angst (1983), with the whole plot advancing from it. But Headless just throws that outta the window and gets you a good old fashioned skull-fornicating with a ladies head. Okay. Someone optimistic would say, yeah okay, now is this sets a base for his future adventures- will he descend into even more depraved waters, does the head symbolize the duality of man or his conflicting consciousness of murder, empathy and need for love? Does he want to stop, or reach some metaphysical goal? Let's continue. He kidnaps another lady and in an expectation subverting twist he cuts her head off and fornicates with it. Now you're thinking: okay nice one, you got me, now what other messed up stuff can you show me? Take a big bloody guess what the next 4 murders heavily feature. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom showed less poking into someone's brain with a tool. The flashback scenes would be great if they didn't feature the absolute cheapest pseudo-Freudian reasons for his trauma your unborn child has seen a million times already. Yeah, I also remeber when my mom kept me in a cage and my sister took a leak on me, but when I broke out, the spooning I did was not related to her eyeballs. The cinematography was nice and emulates the 70's horror film alright.
Having stated before, I'm a pretty hardcore edgelord. No gore in film is enough to make me feel uncomfortable, and I've seen just about all the practical effects can offer. What my uncreative little frontal cortex understands of filmmaking is, the moment you show your goriest scene in the first few minutes, it kinda loses it's edge later on.
Focusing on the plot- it's the exact same serial killer story you've seen every time since Jack the Ripper felt like he appreciated the confines of a womb. Kid gets put in an absurdly aggressive home with mom and sister tormenting him emotionally and sexually and one (1) decapitated rabbit propels him on his crusade of vengeance. Now let me get this straight- the acts of murder can be done so well in a psychological sense, adding to the mental state of the killer as the story progresses, as can be seen in Angst (1983), with the whole plot advancing from it. But Headless just throws that outta the window and gets you a good old fashioned skull-fornicating with a ladies head. Okay. Someone optimistic would say, yeah okay, now is this sets a base for his future adventures- will he descend into even more depraved waters, does the head symbolize the duality of man or his conflicting consciousness of murder, empathy and need for love? Does he want to stop, or reach some metaphysical goal? Let's continue. He kidnaps another lady and in an expectation subverting twist he cuts her head off and fornicates with it. Now you're thinking: okay nice one, you got me, now what other messed up stuff can you show me? Take a big bloody guess what the next 4 murders heavily feature. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom showed less poking into someone's brain with a tool. The flashback scenes would be great if they didn't feature the absolute cheapest pseudo-Freudian reasons for his trauma your unborn child has seen a million times already. Yeah, I also remeber when my mom kept me in a cage and my sister took a leak on me, but when I broke out, the spooning I did was not related to her eyeballs. The cinematography was nice and emulates the 70's horror film alright.