Nails (2003)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Nails |
| Original title | Гвозди , Gwosdi |
| Country of production | Russia |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 60 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andrei Iskanov |
| script | Andrei Iskanov |
| production | Andrei Iskanov |
| music | Andrei Iskanow Alexander Shevchenko |
| camera | Andrei Iskanov |
| cut | Andrei Iskanov |
| occupation | |
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Nails ( Russian Гвозди , Gwosdi ) is a Russian independent film directed by Andrei Iskanow from 2003.
action
The main character is a professional killer who eliminates public enemies for the Russian government. He lives secluded in a small apartment. He is plagued by nightmares and visions that give him headaches. When he collapses after completing a job, he accidentally discovers an article in a magazine that describes a similar problem. The man had tried to heal himself by driving nails into his head. The killer starts with a nail. His pain disappears and for a while he deals with “ magical images ”. When the visions return, he drives seven more nails into his head. His girlfriend, also a killer, comes to visit and realizes that something is wrong with him. The visions begin again and he retreats into the bathroom, where he drills his forehead with a drill. Intoxicated, he kills his girlfriend, whom he considers a monster. As the visions get worse and worse, he begins to operate on his brain.
Two psychiatrists are investigating the strange case. The killer is still alive, but he has 40 percent of his brain removed and is completely blind. A strange device and a straitjacket stabilize the man.
background
The experimental film was made in Khabarovsk with a minimal budget. It is Iskanov's debut film and was marketed in the United States by Unearthed Films , which has a number of similar films such as the Guinea Pig film series . The German dubbed version was released on DVD by Cult Movie Entertainment in.
At the beginning Iskanov uses black and white material, but uses psychedelic colors and effects for the visions and nightmares . The drilling scenes are typical splatter effects . The film is underlaid with post-industrial sounds.
In Germany, the film was also re-released under the title Cruel Behavior and Head Full of Nails .
criticism
Together with the second film Visions of Suffering, the film is part of the early work of Philosophy of a Knife director Andrei Iskanow. The two films made him known among horror movie fans in the United States, while he continues to go barely noticed in Russia. Was compared Nails again and again with the early works of David Lynch ( Eraserhead ), the Guinea-Pig series and Shin'ya Tsukamoto Tetsuo: The Iron Man .
“While it's a raw movie, technically grungy and unschooled, NAILS already exhibits a unique quality of imagination and a remarkable intensity and assurance in execution, along with fierce originality, unremitting grimness and a dogged will to keep an audience utterly unsettled in every possible way . ”
"Although Nails is a rough film, technically speaking dirty and amateurish, it already shows a unique ingenuity, a remarkable intensity and security in execution, together with sophisticated originality, tireless doggedness and an irrepressible will to unsettle the audience in every respect."
“The experimental horror film refers to early David Lynch works. Its director is considered the future hope of the underground . "
Web links
- Nails in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Review. Dreadcentral.com, accessed August 13, 2010 .
- ↑ Version overview for nails . Online film database , accessed August 13, 2010 .
- ^ A b c Rogan Marshall: The Dangerous Visions of Andrei Iskanow. Part 1: Nails and Visions of Suffering . In: Up Against the Wall . No. February 5 , 2007 ( online [accessed August 13, 2010]).
- ↑ Nails. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 1, 2017 .