Tough as it is. It’s one of the weirdest horror movies I’ve seen. In fact, of course, you have to say “like horror movies.” Despite the fact that the picture has all the typical signs of horror - mountains of corpses, monsters, chopped-urinary, etc., the bundle here, of course, is dramatic. The film, of course, is primarily a drama. It is the malice of Homo sapiens, its animal and herd essence, its natural and evil gut, that the authors show simply brilliantly. It’s a heavy movie, and it’s the first movie I’ve ever seen that’s almost physically painful. It reminds me of the old Soviet “stuff”. However, what is clear: the depiction of cruelty and evil is not caricature-cinematographic and quite conventionally formal, caused by the genre of cinema, namely the life-life, which we can all face (and face) in the world around us in reality.
In general, I would not advise you to watch horrors, after all, this category of films should entertain a person only by letting a little adrenaline into the blood from fear. In Mmmmonstroy, horror no longer appears as entertainment, it acquires a metaphysical, existential character, the horror is not emotionally perceived through an external, but in itself, pure, per se. The horror of understanding human nature.
That’s why I’m not surprised by the movie’s low ratings. The genre itself is quite niche, with a limited target audience, which does not really need a complex semantic substrate, because it quite understandably prevents viewing such a movie as entertaining and time-killing. This particular work largely prevents the specified Central Asia from enjoying its viewing due to the absence of the very genre assumed and direct as a stick plot predetermined horror film. Whether it’s good or bad, I honestly don’t know.
Well, other disadvantages are also obvious: the strange illogicality of the plot and actions of the characters of the film, which are due not to the internal logic of the events in the film, but to the whim of its authors, who want to influence the emotions of the viewer in this way according to their creative talents. As for me, this is bad, the authors could not find more subtle expressive means.
In general, I will not review the film, but I will highly appreciate it for going beyond the limits of the genre.
7 out of 10
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