Ga-in falls prey to various and unprovoked attacks by those around her. At first her aggressors are acquaintances at school. A studious overachiever named Eun-kyung Oh Yeon-seo feels slighted when she is passed over for an opportunity, so she comes after Ga-in with a pair of scissors. A family curse is often metaphorical in storytelling; characters feel fated or burdened by past acts committed by their ancestors.
A variety of horror movies adopt this mode of curses, whereas Voices approaches the concept literally. Ga-in learns the source of her hereditary affliction when she seeks refuge with a long-lost relative Kim Seong-jun along with the above said classmate, Seok-min Park Ki-woong. While other stories at this point would explain in detail how to remove the curse, this one only raises more questions.
Frustration aside, the lack of concrete answers actually helps maintain a consistent level of dread until the very end. Voices negotiates the terms of its own premise all throughout; a supernatural force might be at play just as easily as a logical explanation encompassed by coincidences. An unearthly reason for everything is very well possible, but the director plays both sides of the argument.
Countering the surreal moments is the grounded notion that the family curse is really a coping mechanism. This is how someone contends with the bad things they have done in life while preserving the idea they are still good regardless of their offenses. If the ambiguity feels unsatisfactory, the story eventually makes a bold and conclusive choice.
Voices is a passionate movie in spite of the many unidimensional characters. Anger, guilt, shame. Audiences are also more locked into the story and its immediacy. Once the danger begins, there is no letting up. Several days worth of attacks and deaths become an endurance test for those watching. Voices strikes fear into the viewers on a deeper level. The gratuitous and graphic violence within is not likely to do more than catch the eye. Ga-in lives comfortably, surrounded by loving family and friends.
And without trust there is nothing. Voices benefits from stylish and sleek direction, a relatively high body count accentuated by ample bloodletting, and a sort of narrative uncertainty not so readily found in teen horror today. When it was first released as part of the After Dark Horrorfest, Voices was unfairly lumped in with so-so East Asian horrors being indiscriminately bought up and distributed.
In comparison to its contemporaries, the movie is unique. Top review. Old people, gore, and a midget throwing dinner plates. There's no real plot to the movie. It's just a loose collection of ideas strung together in something resembling a plot. That ultimately makes it one bizarre movie. This rivals a Blood Diner or Ichi the Killer for just sheer strangeness.
It's not necessarily good but it isn't bad either. I can't really score it as that would imply this is an actual movie and not some bizarre experiment in performance art gone horribly awry.
The only real gripe to have with the movie outside of the fact that it looks like it was shot on video, is the aforementioned story. Really, it plays like three different movies.
The first third is typical slasher sleaze, the middle is some bizarre form of social commentary, and the last third is a survival film. Really I would've tightened the script up and put it more on a Nightbreed route with the daughter eventually accepting the freaks and finish it out in a finale of bikers vs. But really I'm guessing that wouldn't have worked as it looked like their budget was already being stretched thin. AngryChairr May 18, Details Edit. Release date February 14, United States.
United States. Center Ring Entertainment. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 37 minutes. Related news. I remember seeing back when it was new and it being just what I needed at that time in my life. This is like those movies but cheaper and dumber. Warwick Davis seems to be having fun as a villain.
Did I watch a low budget masterpiece? A pet project of an expert in his field? A goofy nod to shitty horror movies of old? A home movie between film making senior citizens? A high budget is given to practical effects and a full sized talented crew. The thing is, I think this movie is entirely intentional behind every detail of the film.
From the bad acting and voiceovers to the grainy filming and expertly executed special effects. Why is there an elderly biker gang? Why not! It's surprising something so regional-feeling came from the mind of Gabriel Bartalos, who has worked in the industry for decades as a special effects artist, but hey, he clearly didn't compromise his very particular vision!
There's a character with a giant brain, and get this, his name is brain! This is possibly one of the most unhinged movies I've ever seen!!
Honestly thought this was gonna be a rip-off of House of Corpses and it starts off that way but I honestly cannot summarise what the hell this movie is by the end!!
I think my personal fave scene is when the main character's dead family appears to her in a vision with a random cute bunny to let her know that forgiveness is okay, but she says "fuck it! I like to think Warwick Davis said, "Sure, I'll be in it, but only if I get to throw dinner plates the whole time. Directed by long-time special effects expert Gabriel Bartalos, Skinned Deep has the mad energy of Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 let totally loose.
I had to check a summary to make sure I didn't dream the bits near the end, because this movie gets crazy. I'm surprised this isn't more popular. It's not really my kind of schlock it leans a bit Troma , but it's wild and memorable.
It's gross and silly and Warwick Davis has a bottomless plate launcher on his back.
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