For part two of our deep dive into sex in horror, we look at 2022’s “The Surgeon” and the provocative festival film “Black Eyed Susan”.
We continue our look at sex and horror with a topic we have never discussed before. Both of this week’s movies claim to deal with sadomasochism. One of them goes too far – but not in the ways you expect. The other does it in a way that makes you wonder why they even mentioned it was a part of the plot.
The Surgeon from 2022 is about a performance artist who gets caught in an S&M love triangle. At least, that is what the logline tells you. A better description would be an incomprehensible wanna-be psychosexual thriller that throws everything at the audience, whether it makes sense or not.
Lots of pointless nudity, shocking twists that end up meaning nothing, and characters you will not be sure what to think is just part of one of the worst movies we have ever had on our humble little podcast.
You can watch The Surgeon now on Tubi.
Black Eyed Susan makes much more sense.
It is about a man who takes a job testing a sex robot whose AI learns through punishment. It is a provocative film that never holds back. It also introduces themes that are important in today’s society, whether we want to think about them or not.
The problem is that it has good ideas that it does nothing with. In a type of story that pretty much requires nudity, when is it too much? How strong of a point can you make when you are literally dehumanizing a character? When is a person so far down on their look you don’t even care to look for them?
Black Eyed Susan asks a lot of questions – and many of them are interesting, but do they overcome its glaring faults?
The film is currently not yet available to watch outside of the festival circuit, but you can read another take on the film from the Fantasia Film Festival right here.
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Every week AIPT Movie Editor Nathaniel Muir and his cinema partner in crime Blake Heath discuss indie and genre movies you have have never heard of, the ones you cannot hear enough about, and the ones you never want to hear about again.
Episode 372 ‘Ebola Syndrome (1996)
It has been a bad week for people who enjoy physical media. ‘GTA VI’ is not getting a physical release, Playstation games are not getting physical releases after next year, and Sony deleted over 550 movies from user libraries. We also talk about the awesome summer box office.
Sometimes it seems like the days of good old fashioned extreme horror are gone. It was fun to look for movies that everyone talked about but few people had actually seen. In today’s world, it is easy to find any movie that you have heard about. And the worst offenders are nowhere near as bad as they are supposed to be.
At least that is our opinion. But can you blame us? When we hear that movies like ‘Terrifier’ are supposed to be extreme horror, it is hard not to think this way. We decided it was time to take a look back. We literally went to a category that have previously made us feel uncomfortable.
‘Ebola Syndrome’ is a Category III Hong Kong movie that checks off all the boxes for extreme horror. This movie has all the trigger warnings. Despite the constant racism, misogyny, and assault, there is a shockingly good film here. It is funny, creative, and well-done. But is it worth watching?
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