[Lucifer]

ReGoregitated Sacrifice

by: NECROMAGICKAL


Within the cinematic genre of horror, we have become accustomed to the splattering of blood and the evisceration of the human creature upon our ocular perceptions. Yet blood and guts have become cliché in the modern horror film. We have become immune and desensitized to the fright and disgust that the horror film is intended to evoke, by its very natures, within our psyche.

As our collective visual consciousness evolves as a society and greater universe, the grotesque aesthetics of the horror film must also grow. The insatiable deviance of the contemporary horror fan demands more from the arsenal of seemingly finite biological slaughter and fright. We are no longer shocked by the visual presence of torture and death. We have seen such things ad nauseam. Nausea is exactly where Lucifer Valentine, the regurgitating progenitor of "vomit gore", arrives into the open mouths of the horror genre.

Lucifer Valentine, the Satanic hierophant of Roman Showers and lubricating emetophilia, has invoked utter repulsion within the stomach of horror fans with his fringe classic "Slaughtered Vomit Dolls". His films are of course not simply expressions of visual disgust through blood, gore, and bile. They have a much deeper and primal resonance. One may say that the films of Lucifer Valentine are cinematic expressions of the unstable uncertain realities of Quantum mechanics.

Lucifer Valentine has returned unto existential celluloid planes to unleash the second in his series of murderous bile erotica with the film ReGoregitated Sacrifice. The film continues the tragic ethereal demise of Angela Aberdeen, played with seducing psychological unraveling by Ameara Lavey.

ReGoregitated Sacrifice, like its predecessor, is a hallucinogenic non-linear journey between the life and death of Angela. It is a cinematic example of what the tortured soul may experience within the post mortem Bardo of the Buddhist as well as its experiencing of quantum multidimensional realities.

ReGoregitated Sacrifice surpasses Slaughtered Vomit Dolls in terms of the degree of bile and blood, as well as erotic visual. The Presence of the Black Angels of Hell introduce, among its many esoteric cinematic connotations, the role of rape and torture of the feminine by the feminine. The prevalence of lesbianism with sex and death represents the all too ignored aspect of the creative-destroying complex of the feminine archetype. Like critics of so many films where questions of woman hating is always pointed, the role of the Black Angels of Hell will perhaps quell such allegations.

The cinematography and camera work, performed by Lucifer with secondary work by The Black Kid, is excellent artistically. The various technicalities and style reflect perfectly the hallucinatory and often demonic experiences the death of consciousness from incarnation may experience. The special effects were created by Arcanum Design Works, who also worked on Slaughtered Vomit Dolls, and Chris the Heathen Valagao. The blood and carnage within ReGoregitated Sacrifice ranks with any professional film and has a realism to parts of it that makes one question whether Valentine in reality made a snuff film.

It is a film that, like its predecessor, will more than likely be misunderstood by the common denominator of horror and film fans. It is more than a mixture of sex and death showered with vomit. It is more than simple shock value cinema. It should be considered as a film testing limitations and forming an evolving symbiotic relationship between the experimental and horror genre. Besides watching with an open mouth, from becoming nauseas yourself, it should be watched with an open mind.

Written, directed, photographed, edited, and scored by Valentine himself, ReGoregitated Sacrifice illustrates that Lucifer is certainly a talented and controversial character within the horror genre. His ability to transform tabooed subjects into shocking and frightening art indicates that he will be remembered, and not forgotten as many independent controversial filmmakers are.