Extase de chair brisée (2005) User Reviews

A violent post apocalyptic exploitation masterpiece with a surreal touch

[filmbizarro · 8/10 · 20 April 2010]

"Extase de Chair Brisée" is directed by the men behind the company Cinéma Abattoir, Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt and Frédérick Maheux. I could sum up my feelings for this film in one sentence, and it would be something like "a violent post apocalyptic exploitation masterpiece with a surreal touch", but that wouldn't do it justice. The film starts out with a girl who walks next to the train tracks, and two goons in metal masks attack her. They beat her, kick her, and eventually undress and sexually assault her. Along comes a girl all wrapped in bandages, and she has another metal masked goon on a leash. The bandage girl has a blow torch that she uses to burn the poor woman, and then they all leave her for dead. But in the veins of "I Spit On Your Grave", she isn't exactly dead. Dressed in black clothes, white skirt and a gas mask, the woman is back for revenge. After this, you know the drill. And I couldn't have said it better, because she literally uses a drill for her revenge, except for the final revenge; the bandage girl. She has something extra for her. More specifically, a knife strap-on. The entire film is black and white, and most violence is out of focus so we can't really see it, but it all adds up to the artistic side of the film. This films stands out a lot because it has an obvious plot, and it feels like a mix of your typical rape-revenge film and the underground film "PIG". That can't turn out bad.

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Extatic Chaos

[mazelord · 8/10 · 5 August 2010]

Although the subject of rape/revenge has been exploited in many films since the shocking "Irreversible", this short movie has a definite artistic take that differentiates it from its class. The photography is alternating from clean to rough while the industrial soundtrack supports the display. Although filled with graphic violence, it isn't trivial and the final scene will leave you wondering if the punishment isn't somewhat worse than the crime. A dark look into a possible future filled with insanity and crime, sometimes reminiscent of Paul Auster's "In the Country of Last Things" and of Shinya Tsukamoto's "Tetsuo", worth discovering despite minor production faults.

even worse for your ears than eyes.

[MyStIk_z · 2/10 · 17 July 2006]

This short movie had some potential, but the sound track ruined everything. After 16 minutes of pure sound chaos, nobody applauded, nobody except the filming crew. (who were there to present their movie to Montreal's Fantasia festival.) People where quietly saying how glad they were this was over. I Still don't know if this "Sound" was by purpose, or has been caused by a defect in the speaker system of the theater but anyhow, the next film has been correct, with no sound problem at all.

The photography was quite accurate, except a few goofs (we even saw a finger in the lens) and shaky hands... The story had some good too, but the entire film could have been reduced by half its running time...