Where The Dead Go To Die (2012)

My rating 6.5/10

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This is a like it or hate film and there's pretty much no inbetween. I'm on the like it side and find this slice of mind melting insanity fascinating!. It's an anthology consisting of three stories and all are extremely fucked up!.

Directed by Jimmy Screamerclauz who also animated it, wrote it, produced it and created the music for it, all while pretty much learning how to animate as he went along which is pretty impressive!.

In the first story "Tainted Milk" a young boy is told by a demonic dog called Labby that his parents soon to be born baby is the antichrist and it needs to be killed. We see Labby biting the dads dick off, pulling the unborn baby from the mothers womb which is thrown to the ground, and when the boy wishes for his parents to be alive again Labby says he'll grant the wish but only if he can have the boys virginity. And yes, we do see that. Of course the parents and baby remain dead and the boy ends up taking the baby outside to bury it. We also get a bunch more nightmarish imagery throughout this one too.

In "Liquid Memories" a drug addict serial killer brings people to an abandoned church where he kills them and extracts their memory gland fluid and injects it into himself. He then experiences their memories in vivid detail. When a hooker comes in after having her eye ripped out he kills her and injects her memories. This takes him down a hellish spiral of more nightmarish imagery including encounters with creatures known as Shadow Beings. Being driven insane by these memories he ends up shooting himself.

The third story "The Masks That Monsters Wear" is the most disturbing and hard to watch as it deals with a young boy with a siamese twin growing on the side of his head. He wears a mask to cover it up and eventually gets to know a young girl in his class he has a crush on. Sadly, the girl is being forced by her father to create child pornography videos with anyone who's willing to pay the father. When the father wants the young boy to have sex with the girl while he films it the boy decides to take care of things by shooting the girls father and his own father when he catches him watching one of the videos. I find this story truly horrific and heartbreaking and I struggle to watch it all the way through when I revisit this film.

A lot of people complain about the annimation style and voice acting in this film, and yeah neither are great, but I find this just adds to the whole surreal, messed up and disturbing aura the film has. It will come as no surprise that a lot of the violent, nightmare imagery comes from the directors experiences from bad acid trips. Definitely not for the easily offended, and genuinely disturbing, this is like nothing you've ever seen before. I've watched it many times now and everytime I find something new to fuck with my mind... Awesome!.

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