Why not register?


Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 13 posts ] 

All times are UTC [ DST ]

Author Message
PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:11 am  Post subject: Singapore Sling (1990)
Reply with quote
User avatar
Offline

Master Of The Dead Donkey
Joined: Wed Jan 14, 2004 8:34 pm
Posts: 759
Image

IMDb

Quote:
Plot: A mother and a daughter live in a large home, playing games of sexual domination and re-enacting the murders of various servants that they have hired and then killed. A private detective comes searching for Laura, a woman he is fixated on but whom they have killed. They imprison him, using him as a sex toy and torturing him.

Singapore Sling is a film difficult to describe. You could try and call it a deranged collision between film noir, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane ? (1962) and a John Waters film played straight. At times it comes close to Fellini's grotesqueries or a lesser-budgeted version of Peter Greenaway in shock-horror mode. (The scenes of the women languidly letting food slobber down their clothes and masturbating with it come very close to the same assaults on fine dining that Greenaway conducted in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover [1989]). The film is shot in exquisite black-and-white and classical music plays on the soundtrack. At close contrast to this are a series of thoroughly demented goings-on - women ravaging each other with strap-on dildos (and a rather nasty climax where the dildo is replaced by a knife); scenes of eating food in the messiest way possible; a lot of sex scenes and a good many of the two women (who spend the entire film wandering around in 1920s lingerie or half-naked) masturbating. In one truly demented scene the male lead is tied down to the bed, ECT paddles jammed against his forehead and he left convulsing in shock while the other woman rides him and then moves up to piss on his face. In another such scene we watch in exquisitely photographed detail and all to the accompaniment of classical music as human entrails are removed from a body and placed on a bench and earrings delicately hung from pieces of meat.

It's a bizarre film to try and get a grip on, particularly in terms of what is meant to be happening. The acting is quite theatrically OTT. Characters often talk direct to the camera. One has no real idea why characters act the way they do. Trying to follow the plot is like trying to get a grip on an oiled fish. Why was Laura killed ? Why do the mother/daughter reenact her murder and that seemingly of other maids they claimedly lure to the house for the express purpose of killing ? Or are they even really a mother and daughter ? Is the daughter really Laura ? Is Singapore Sling really a detective searching for Laura or, as is suggested at one point, someone who fell in love with her and became obsessed with finding her ? Everything is bafflingly ambiguous. If this side of the film had been explored further it might have made for an intriguingly existential variation on a film noir thriller. But as it is it is never quite wielded with sufficient sophistication to make it more than passably intriguing film (and one that, at 113 minutes, does become somewhat long and indulgent) carried largely by its gross-out factor.

[ http://www.moria.co.nz/horror/singaporesling.htm ]


Finally a DVDRip, from Karagarga (I *think* the ripper was KamuiX - thanks!).

Mostly english-spoken, hard-engsubbed in the most annoyng way for the greek-spoken parts.

ed2k: Singapore.Sling.1990.cd1.DVDRip.HardEnSub.XviD-KamuiX.avi  [700.95 Mb] [Stats]
ed2k: Singapore.Sling.1990.cd2.DVDRip.HardEnSub.XviD-KamuiX.avi  [699.18 Mb] [Stats]

Image

Image

[ Add all 2 links to your ed2k client ]

_________________
https://images.dead-donkey.com/images/mayaandghedeminild1.png


Top
 Profile  
PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:59 am  Post subject:
Reply with quote
User avatar
Offline

Dead But Dreaming
Joined: Sun Dec 19, 2004 7:34 am
Posts: 282
Location: Behind the lead pantomimer
Thanks Trep! :D

Your heart is as large as the boxes they snuck behind those subtitles :o

Annoying subs or not, this is a great find! :beerchug:

_________________
https://images.dead-donkey.com/images/arniedollavatar2wm.jpg


Last edited by kamlem on Sat Aug 19, 2006 6:41 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Top
 Profile  
PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 1:43 pm  Post subject:
Reply with quote
User avatar
Offline

Lunatic Of Gods Creation
Joined: Mon Jan 05, 2004 5:45 am
Posts: 965
Its a weird one, but mesmerizing. Non-horror, though.

_________________
https://images.dead-donkey.com/images/avoy2.jpg


Top
 Profile  
PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:13 pm  Post subject:
Reply with quote
Offline

Demon Of The Abyss
Joined: Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:42 pm
Posts: 1376
Location: Hell de Janeiro, Brazil
Wow! love the torture ones... thanks a lot, trep

_________________
https://images.dead-donkey.com/images/explosiongif.30kbsv7.gif


Top
 Profile  
PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:16 pm  Post subject:
Reply with quote
User avatar
Offline

Demon Of The Abyss
Joined: Wed Aug 24, 2005 2:40 am
Posts: 1301
Location: Where Evil Dwells
Genre: Comedy / Crime / Horror / Thriller :o Yes, it´s horror allright. And some other things...

_________________
Can´t get this signature thing to work... Oh well, f**** it!


Top
 Profile  
PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:55 pm  Post subject:
Reply with quote
User avatar
Offline

Site Admin
Joined: Sat Nov 02, 2002 1:35 am
Posts: 19779
Location: En España
*Tags restored*

Tip: Don't use HTML when posting ed2k links (I generally just remove it anyway these days, so its just more work for me).
If you just post the ed2k links, and press preview, you can hit the stats next to the links and then check the existing sources and the actual original tags. :)

_________________
Mouse nipple for the win! Trackpoint or death!


Top
 Profile  
PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:04 pm  Post subject:
Reply with quote
User avatar
Offline

Lunatic Of Gods Creation
Joined: Mon Jan 05, 2004 5:45 am
Posts: 965
I've seen this one. Trust me, its not horror. If giallo movies are non-horror, this one is a mile from horror. Oh well, no skin off my neck, either way.

_________________
https://images.dead-donkey.com/images/avoy2.jpg


Top
 Profile  
PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:10 pm  Post subject:
Reply with quote
User avatar
Offline

The Devil, Probably
Joined: Sun Mar 27, 2005 2:43 pm
Posts: 2250
Location: C.L.R.'s Grave, Hackensack, NJ
Those are some worst hard subs I have seen in years! Thats a shame the picture looks nice.

_________________
SO BAD ITS GOOD! [bad-good.org]
Watch tits and gore and creepy dudes and pull out yer teeth and burn sensitive areas and drown while crying and fart babies!


Top
 Profile  
PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:46 pm  Post subject:
Reply with quote
User avatar
Offline

Master Of The Dead Donkey
Joined: Wed Jan 14, 2004 8:34 pm
Posts: 759
About horror/non-horror... I posted it here because this movie has a long history of being sought after by horror hounds, and it's mostly been reviewed in horror-oriented mags. I think it fits here. Giallo is another story as it's a whole genre. This movie is that sort of weird thing a la Eraserhead or Migrating Forms (I'm not making comparisons here) defining its own little genre.

Not that I care where it ends posted - and I agree that it's not your usual horror movie by a thousand miles and then some. I just thought it fitted here. You know I'm not shy of posting to non-horror if I think it's the case.


Top
 Profile  
PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 12:01 am  Post subject:
Reply with quote
Offline

Will Tear Your Soul Apart
Joined: Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:16 am
Posts: 550
Location: somewhere on Emerald Island
whoa! great to see this movie in such quality. the rip I have is kinda shitty, and the movie... well, one has to see it for oneself... highly recommended.


thanks a lot! :beerchug:

_________________
Rich Pop Stars Make Good Socialists

Image


Top
 Profile  
PostPosted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:30 pm  Post subject:
Reply with quote
User avatar
Offline

Demon Of The Abyss
Joined: Wed Aug 24, 2005 2:40 am
Posts: 1301
Location: Where Evil Dwells
Clicked yesterday but forgot to say thanks, so:
Thanks! :beerchug:

_________________
Can´t get this signature thing to work... Oh well, f**** it!


Top
 Profile  
PostPosted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:24 am  Post subject:
Reply with quote
Offline

The Practice Girl
Joined: Fri Jul 18, 2003 3:08 am
Posts: 6099
Location: Back in the glistening folds of Barbara Bush's Twat
Looks alot better then the rip I had before so thanks Trep..I'll amend the collection to reflect this rip now.When you think of exploitation...this is one of the movies that comes in mind. :mrgreen:

_________________
Small Time Rippers - 2003-2008 - R.I.P.


Top
 Profile  
PostPosted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:15 pm  Post subject:
Reply with quote
User avatar
Offline

In Hell I Burn
Joined: Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:45 am
Posts: 378
Location: Italy
Thanks a lot, this film is pure crazyness! :beerchug:


Top
 Profile  
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  

All times are UTC [ DST ]

Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 13 posts ] 


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 6 guests


Moderator: Movie Mods

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
cron
Frontpage / Forums / Scifi


What's blood for, if not for shedding?