As soon
as Ronny Carlsson has made a new
film I know I just have to have it as soon as possible. I like the innovative
ideas and the ambition this you Swedish filmmaker! So when he released Video Geisteskrank on VHS I knew
that I needed it! The general interest of this release (on the ancient format) was
very low but I’m very proud over my limited numbered copy “1”. The film itself
is also available on the anthology-DVD Experimental
Films Through the Lens of a Shitty Camcorder (which I believe has been
sold out!).
But regardless
of the availability of the film I’m very impressed by the director’s competence
when it comes to creating spellbinding sound/image combinations. All the music
and sounds in the movie are just perfect to the graphic imagery. The style of
the film seems to be inspired from the silent movie era and it’s just superb. I
get the feeling that Ronny’s had a
lot of fun making this and I really think that rubs off on the viewer. Apart
from the silent films there’s obviously also inspiration from the infamous August Underground movies and there are
bits and pieces here and there that manifests this quite clearly I think.
But if I’ll
be completely honest with you I think this is more interesting than it´s more
known inspirational sources! There’s a lot of suspense and horror when the
films main character put starts to violate an innocent woman. The story is very
simple but yet kind of genius. The main character (portrayed but Ronny himself) has this list where he needs
to checks out one thing at the time, sort of a bucket list. First thing out is
something “innocent” like killing a hitchhiker, after that he aims to vomit on
two girls, which finally leads up to where the movie takes place – violating
the innocent woman…
The
killers mask, because the killer is mask, is another stroke of genius! It´s a
pig head which might not be the most common mask in the business. It looks very
original and horrifying, even real and that’s something I for one don’t take
for granted when it comes to movies like this!
8/10
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