[Lucifer]

hey y'all !! i thought ya may find this interesting: here's two new reviews of ReGOREgitated Sacrifice, the first from EVOL666, and the second from Josh Haney --- what i think is cool is the "kind" of reviews that they are, that they show a part of the spectrum of viewers that clearly either want to enjoy the deeper meanings and psychological concepts of RS, or that don't enjoy them or consider those concepts to be particularly important to the viewing experience, INTERESTING !!

REVIEW by EVOL666 :

I was amongst the first to pre-order his original film, Slaughtered Vomit Dolls, after seeing a particularly interesting and "tasty" trailer online. Anyone who has read my review of SVD on IMDb (available here: www. imdb. com/title/tt0811073/usercomments-1) will recall my obvious disdain for the original film. Personally - I just didn't get it. But my initial review led to contact by HorrorMovieFans. com, which led to an extremely in-depth, interesting, and often amusing interview (available here: www. horrormoviefans. com/the_lucifer_valentine_interview. htm) conducted by myself with Mr. Valentine. During the interview, I developed a bit of an affinity for the...uh..."quirky" director - and offered to both review ReGOREgitated Sacrifice upon it's release, and to also conduct a follow-up interview after watching the film. I've been in contact with Valentine on several occasions over the past (almost) two years following our initial interview - and today (or 6/25/2008 depending on when this review hits...) I received and viewed my screener of ReGORE. Part one of that deal is what follows - the interview is in the works.


So - having not been impressed or otherwise entertained by Slaughtered Vomit Dolls - would ReGOREgitated Sacrifice prove to be a more entertaining or interesting entry - or would it leave me as high and dry-heaved as the previous film?

Note: Some "spoilers" may follow - especially for those who have not seen the first film.


ReGOREgitated Sacrifice (from what I can gather...), continues the descent of Angela Aberdeen - bulimic stripper-turned-prostitute (played by once girlfriend of Valentine, Ameara LeVey), and starts moments after her suicide-by-drowning that ends the first film.
What transpires over the next hour-plus of ReGORE, is a montage of rape, graphic murder, and fetish-porn elements - and of course, what would a self-respecting "Vomit-Gore" film be without tons of puke??? The scenarios that take place during this film, and Slaughtered Vomit Dolls as well, are connected to and take place during the same time as the suicide of Nirvana front-man, Kurt Cobain, and (as Valentine puts it):

"the Kurt Cobain connection deals with the idea that the lines of realities can be intertwined and blurred nearly beyond recognition and the content of occurrences from parallel/tangential dimensions/planes of realities can become mutated and COMBINED to form New Hybrid Realities.
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Got that? me neither - but that's OK...

Anyway, as Aberdeen moves from life to the after-life, she is visited by the "Black Angels of Hell" - a pretty sexy duo of incestuous, twin-sister demons who serve as "protectors" to Aberdeen, and destroy the fragmented personalities that manifest themselves in Aberdeen's horrifying visions...or something like that. Even after watching the Special Features that try to explain the basic concepts of both films - I'm still pretty lost. But that's not what's important. What IS important to a relatively "simple" fan of sleaze/gore/porn films such as myself, is what's displayed on-screen. To avoid a shot-by-shot recounting of the film - let's just say that once the ball gets rolling, the audience is treated to all manner of graphic torture and near-pornographic sexual fetishism (focusing mainly on golden-showers, incest, lesbianism, and emetophilia) that fans of subversive viewing material will likely get a kick out of. I also have to say that ReGORE has about the most "interesting" ending since Jorg Buttgereit's 1987 underground favorite, Nekromantik.


It may sound as though I'm lampooning ReGORE - but honestly, I'm not. I have to admit that I actually quite "enjoyed" (if that's the right word for it...) this particular entry. In speaking with Valentine, and as is obvious from the section of the Special Features of ReGORE that tries to explain the director's "visions" of his films - the director has decided to take some very heady and intellectual concepts, and put them into a film that is visually a cross between an H.G. Lewis splatter-film, fetish porn, old-school '70s "roughie", and still a solid dose of "experimental"/art-house type elements. Being that I'm a fan of most of the aforementioned genres - I was entertained by this second entry, even if the more "brainy" elements escaped me.


Though the film isn't really any more "linear" in terms of plot than SVD was - I found ReGORE far more watchable for several reasons. Valentine still uses a bit of the music-video-style quick-cut editing techniques (that I personally found more nauseating than the film itself...) that he employed in SVD - it's not nearly as prevalent in ReGORE. The gore scenes are more protracted and "steady" for the most part, which is a major plus in my book. The scenes involving nudity are also far more explicit, and not to be a dick, but most of the women in the film are hotter than in SVD - another big plus for me.


Regardless of the fact that I may not (and probably never will) have caught onto the intellectual themes of ReGOREgitated Sacrifice or it's predecessor (which is not the director's fault, and is far more my issue for not understanding the finer points of Jungian quantum realities...or whatever...), I still found the sequel to be an interesting watch on a visceral, visual level. Though I've seen all of the basic visual elements of Valentine's second offering in other films - be them under the guise of horror, pornography, or art-film - ReGORE is a unique and original take on one broken individual's descent into hell.


I personally will be interested to see what the last in the "Vomit-Gore" trilogy holds, and also Valentine's other projects which (when I last spoke to Valentine...) included a short film about date-rape, and a full-length documentary about a group of black metal friends that all kill themselves. At least it's good to see that Valentine branching out into "lighter" fare...

8/10 for ReGOREgitated Sacrfice: Heavy gore and tons of explicit nudity/fetishism (often taking place all within the same scenes - face it, what's better than boobs, butts, and twats other than bloody boobs, butts, and twats???) make this one an overall winner for me..