Sex, Lies and Video Violence (2000)
"Sex, lögner & videovåld" (original title)

Director:

Richard Holm

Writers:

Johan Holm, Richard Holm

Stars:

Mike Beck, Johan Holm, Zara Zetterqvist

Cast

Credited cast:
Mike Beck	...	Micke (as Mikael Beckman)
Johan Holm	...	Franz
Zara Zetterqvist	...	Little Sis'
Camilla Henemark	...	Camilla
Micke Dubois	...	Hot dog vendor
Jan Larsson	...	Alien / Weirdo / Leatherface / Kind-Janne / Man shot by Robocop
Anders Ek	...	One of the droogs / Man shot by Robocop
Kaj Steveman	...	Dealer / One of the droogs
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ankie Bagger	...	Girl shot in nose by Robocop
Mel Brooks	...	Stressed old man
Ellinor Geete
Richard Holm	...	Weirdo
Jörgen Holmstedt
Anders Jacobsson	...	Man shot in the head by Robocop
Peter Jansson	...	Man chased by Darkman

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

hallucination | violence | spoof | vomit | insanity | 

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Horror

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Details

Country:

Sweden

Language:

Swedish

Release Date:

5 May 2000 (Sweden)

Also Known As:

Sex, Lies and Video Violence

Box Office

Budget:

SEK 50,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

68 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The idea for the film came when director Richard Holm, who then worked with marketing at SF (Swedish Filmindustry), received a Robocop-suit as promotion for _Robocop 2 (1990)_. He had just finished The Resurrection of Michael Myers Part 2 and thought, "We gotta use this in some film." Ten years later, the film was finished.

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Goofs

'Mikael Beckman''s hairstyle varies radically between different scenes, due to the film being shot over an extended period of three years.

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Connections

References Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)

User Reviews

One of maybe five good Swedish action films

This was an enjoyable movie with lots of violence, and quite good effects for being an low-budget independent production.

There is a lot of cameos too - mostly Swedish celebrities who were well-known in the eighties, and Brandon Lee of course (he has two short lines if i recall it correctly.)

In English, the title of the movie would translate as "Sex, Lies, and Video Violence", which of course is inspired by the title of Soderberghs "Sex, Lies, and Videotape". At the time the movie was made, and before, there was a lot of debate in Sweden about "Video violence", that is, all the violence that could be seen on VHS videos, and how that would affect the youth, what measures should be taken to stop this,...