Bad Brains (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Bad brains |
| Original title | Bad brains |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ivan Zuccon |
| script |
Ivo Gazzarrini Ivan Zuccon |
| production | Emanuele Cerquiglini |
| music | AcidVacuum |
| camera | Ivan Zuccon |
| cut | Ivan Zuccon |
| occupation | |
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Bad Brains is an Italian horror thriller from 2006. Directed by Ivan Zuccon, the leading actors are Emanuele Cerman, Valeria Sannino, Christiana Vaccaro and Mateo Tosi.
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Davide and Alice are siblings and a couple, but they share a dark secret. As children, they shared the desire to kill. Together they murdered their brother when he was a baby. More murders followed shortly afterwards, first of her mother, then, as they grew up, of other people.
Always looking for a "pure soul" to use to justify their actions, countless victims die or are tortured by them. Barricaded in an abandoned company premises, the siblings can calmly pursue their "search" until one day a stranger enters the warehouse. He is immediately tied up and threatened, but he is unimpressed. The stranger claims that if he dies, Davide dies too. Whenever a couple is killed, he also claims, his hands bleed.
When Alice finally kills him, a moth flies out of his mouth, which is immediately mistaken for the ever sought-after disappeared soul. Davide then kills himself in the hope of getting a new life through the moth. The moth appears as a symbol in a sequence from the past in which Alice sits with her mother and draws a butterfly. The mother replies that it is a moth.
The film takes place on several levels. The present is the main level of the film, often sequences from the past are shown, visions or delusions of the people and insights into the "snuff videos" developed by the siblings.
Throughout the film, a special victim, the "doll", is held in a dark room and tortured. Clearly disoriented and bleeding, the woman keeps stepping into the action until she is finally released because Davide has killed himself and Alice is pregnant and wants to flee. However, the chances of the "doll" to survive are slim because it is exhausted and wounded.
14 years later (presumably) Alice's daughter enters the empty building, finds the couple's recordings, looks at them, throws up, sees that her hands are bleeding and runs into the bathroom to wash. Davide appears in the mirror and scoffs at her that there is blood on her hands and the film ends with her words "Get out of my head", which Davide often said to himself in dreamlike sequences.
Reviews
The website Cinefacts explained: "For a low-budget film like BAD BRAINS a decent implementation, which, however, has one big flaw: 'The film has been shortened', which cannot necessarily be seen as an incentive to buy."
Web links
- Bad Brains in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The film at Cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information and criticism at cinefacts.de