Director: Srdjan Spasojevic
Writers: Aleksandar Radivojevic, Srdjan Spasojevic
Stars: Srdjan ‘Zika’ Todorovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Jelena Gavrilovic
1 Hour, 44 Minuntes
Link: https://amzn.to/31wjHDh
Synopsis
Note: This is mostly clean review, but all the trigger warnings in the world won’t help you with this one.
A man and woman come out of “Le Club Filth” and have rough sex in the alleyway. The camera pulls back to show a little kid watching all this in a porno movie starring his own father. His mother comes in and turns it off. Milos said he was watching it because his old manager called and wanted to meet with him later today. Milos has a huge shelf full of his old pornos, but he’s retired and mostly respectable now.
He meets up with his manager, Layla, the next day. She has a project, “It’s artistic pornography of the highest level,” she explains. It involves a lot of money. Milos’s brother is a cop, and he interrupts their meeting. She leaves, and the two men talk. Apparently, the manager has a “special talent” that made her a prime porn star.
Milos is bored and broke, and he decides to do the special project so he has enough money that his wife and son will be comfortable. He wonders why anyone would offer him so much money after he’s been retired for so long.
The next day, a car and driver are waiting to take him to this new job. He meets Vukmar, the producer of the film. Vukmar compliments Milos, calling him a great artist. Milos always filmed his scenes on the first take. Vukmar says he makes films for special, exclusive clients, nothing for the masses. He shows Milos the contract, and the numbers are very high. He doesn’t get to see the script, and Vukmar says if he knew what he was shooting, he wouldn’t be as good. Milos signs the contract, and then we see one of the strangest “training montages” ever. Meanwhile, Milos’s brother is crushing on his wife.
Milos goes to the big house where they’re filming, and a guy who looks very “mafia” walks out with his two bodyguards. Vukmar insists everything is prepared and perfect, and Milos has nothing to worry about.
The day finally comes, and the driver gives Milos an earpiece so that he can hear instructions. The driver then drops him off, and a guy with a camcorder is there filming from that point on. He goes inside, and there’s another cameraman in there. He walks down a hallway with a woman and watches a girl get yelled at by her mother. That’s about it doe the first day.
The second day, there’s more mother-daughter drama for the camera. Afterwards, there’s kissing with the woman. The woman gets him off while he watches video of the young girl putting on makeup on a video screen. That’s about it for the second day.
That night, Milos calls his brother and asks for a background check on Vukmar. The brother’s getting weird over Mrs. Milos. It’s getting weird for Milos, and he’s not stupid; something more is going on. Layla tells Milos to suck it up and take their money.
On the third day, Milos is blindfolded before getting in the car. He watches a women get beat up, who then services him. A little girl comes in, and Milos yells that he can’t work like this! A man grabs him and tells him to hit the woman while she works on him. Milos tell Vukmar that he won’t stand for any kind of torture. That’s the third day.
Vukmar’s background check comes back, and there’s not a lot on him. He’s a filmmaker, but he’s never done anything anyone has heard of. It sounds like no big deal.
On the fourth day, he really doesn’t want to go, but figures he ought to resign in person. He goes to see Vukmar. Milos starts to think Vukmar is insane when he says “the victim is the one who suffers most.” He shows Milos a video with a woman giving birth, and the guy who drives the car does the delivery. Then the man does something awful to the baby. Milos hides his eyes; he can’t watch. Vukmar screams, “It’s newborn porn!” Milos leaves but doesn’t get very far before he passes out.
He wakes up in hos own home covered in blood. His wife and son are not there. He goes back to Vukmar’s place with a crowbar as he tries to remember what happened. As he goes in each room, he recalls what happened there. He had been drugged with cattle aphrodisiac and forced to perform for the cameras. With a machete. He finds videos that show that Layla was involved with all this beyond just bringing him the deal, at least before they pull out all her teeth and chain her up. He then remembers it all, in great detail.
One act of brutal sex follows another until the drugged-up Milos eventually figures out that two of the people he performed with was his own wife and young son… Then things get really bloody!
Commentary
The cinematography and production values are really high in this one, especially considering the subject matter. It all looks good. The first sixty minutes are well-acted, normal drama with some sexy bits. After that point, things get twisted, and go way downhill fast.
I’ve seen this one before, and I did not realize how much of a story there was before the weirdness starts; all I remembered was the gory stuff. And the gory stuff is especially memorable. This is, if not the most twisted movie I’ve seen, at least in the top three.