A Serbian Film Review By Lost Zombie

30th November 2010

A few days ago I saw A Serbian Film. There has been a lot of hype around this film with claims of “goriest movie ever” and tales of how the printing company refusing to make an actual print for cinemas due to the content contained in the film and people getting sick and walking out. Make no mistake, this is one hard film to watch and in some ways does live up to the hype surrounding it.
This film tells the story of a cash strapped semi-retired porn star Milos (Srdjan Todorovic) who is lured into doing one film that will pay enough money to look after him and his young family for good and then some. How ever he has no idea what the film is about and with only the eccentric director’s vision (played by Sergej Trifunovic) of an art house porno vision to go on. It’s needless to say our protagonist has no idea the horrors that will befall him before the end.

I won’t go into spoiler territory here so I’ll leave it at that but be warned this isn’t your normal gore type film even though it has been compared to films like Martyrs and Inside ( both of which I really liked) A Serbian Film is not really a horror film, instead it delves into the child porn area and there for presented a different kind of of horror. And despite the content and the places this film goes a lot of it if you watch again is what you think you have seen rather then what you actually have. Although you are lead down a very specific path and you are meant to be moved by this film the makers do want you to hate this film.

Director Srdjan Spasojevic will tell you that this film is a metaphor for the injustices that the people in Serbia have faces from the government over the last few decades. With this knowledge the film does make more sense and seems in some ways justify its self. But The Godfather was an allegory for American capitalism but what I love about them films is the journey of Michael Corleone and the other characters in the film. At the end of the day I’m not all that interest in what the film is supposed to represent I want to be entertained and horror is my favourite type.

Maybe I’m getting old and have lost some of my movie loving magic but I became so aware that this film was going very far out of its way to repulse me and to leave a lasting impression this is backed up by the final line uttered in the film which was out of all the rape death, blood, erect penises, newborns and children is the only thing from the film that I took with me after leaving the cinema.

You may be forgiven for thinking that such a film would be on the cheaper end and a straight to DVD fair. But this film is very well produced and directed. plus i have to mension the acting the acttors really do sell this will everything they have and it totaly works you will belive what your are seeing even if you cant. This film looks on par with any other film out of Hollywood and is all the better for it.

So to sum up A Serbian film will mostly go by unnoticed by the general public and be sought after buy people looking to see what surly has to be up there in the best of the video nastys and depending that you can take what you about to watch and can keep an open mind I’m sure this one will become that film that your horror geek friends will put on just to see how much of it you can take before you switch off. This is one for the hardcore horror fan only.

3 stars

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