Carnage for the Destroyer

Starring:Chiara Mastroianni, Ãngela Molina, Lio, Lucia Sanchez, Esther Gorintin, Marilyne Even, Clovis Cornillac, Jacques Gamblin, FÃ©odor Atkine, Bernard Sens, Pascal Bongard, RaphaÃ«lle Molinier, Julien Lescarret, Juliette Noureddine, Luc Delhumeau, Catherine Gleize, AnaÃ¯s Gastout, Fifi, Bruno Ballone
Director: Delphine Gleize
Studio: Fox Lorber
Product Type: DVD

Product Description

Resurrect a bargain with THEY CAME FROM THE GRAVE! This low-priced set includes 5 gory features on 4 discs, complete with enough bonus features to fill several coffins. Includes: MY DEAD GIRLFRIEND (2006), CARNAGE FOR THE DESTROYER (2006), DEAD & ROTTING Special Edition (2002), FILTHY McNASTY (2002) and MULVA: ZOMBIE ASS KICKER! (2000). A $65 retail value! Please see individual titles for a complete list of bonus features.

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Insert standard bull joke here.
The Bull Still Has Powers
Trajectory: The Pulsing Global Balls of Coincidences
Truth is stranger than fiction...
"It's a moment when all doubts vanish."

Carnage for the Destroyer
Starring: Chiara Mastroianni , Ángela Molina , Lio , Lucia Sanchez , and Esther Gorintin
Director: Delphine Gleize
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
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ASIN: B0000YTOX0
Release Date: 2004-02-17

Description

There Are No Coincidences. Only Connections. An audacious and award-winning film that traces the bizarre, often magical effects a 1,000-pound Andalusian bull has on a disparate group of characters.

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Insert standard bull joke here........2006-12-14

Carnage (Delphine Gleize, 2002)

The last thing I expected from Carnage was that it would be such an amusing little movie. Gleize's conceit is a now-familiar one-- take one item and show the lives through which it passes-- but instead of taking one item and passing it whole (as in Robert Altman's famous series Gun), Gleize takes a bullfight from the movie's opening scenes, in which the bull himself is killed and the enthusiastic young toreador is horribly gored, winding up comatose and needing a new liver in the hospital. The bull is rendered, and the movie follows various pieces of the bull's remains, and the intertwining stories of the characters who end up with some of them.

Much has been made of the initial bullfighting scene, which is choreographed and shot in a beautiful, almost dreamlike manner. And while all the praise of that scene is justified, it eclipses the scene of the rendering a bit farther into the film. It has the same qualities, but they are applied to a much more mundane setting, and they are almost intensified in the application. It's an utterly fascinating, if short, scene, that gives some insight into Gleize's talent as a director.

As for the rest of the film, it's almost on, but not quite. It never seems to get a handle on what it wants to be, and thus pinballs from tragedy to silliness, with hefty doses of cleverness and with thrown in for good measure, as well as more than a modicum of coincidence (one can explain this away by the sort of magic-realism trope that seems inherent to this subgenre); while watching Carnage, you get the idea that there's a great film buried somewhere close to the surface, but that it is never quite realized. Still, what's here is usually fun; it's not a failure by any means. ** ½

The Bull Still Has Powers.......2006-10-02

Carnage is a film that is set into motion, at the very beginning, when a young bullfighter is gored in the arena. The bullfighter and the bull exchange penetrations in this dance to the death. The bull is killed in the arena by the final sword wound while the young man falls into a coma. The bull is processed, as most bulls are, and his body moves out into the world in pieces.

The story then illustrates how we consume these animals. People come into contact with the bull's various body parts at a restaurant, at the grocery store, a taxidermist's workshop and a research lab. Each person's life seems to be `touched' by some sort of unexpected, seemingly miraculous event that brings change and transformation. The changes we see are at times brutal and inspirational.

The film was brilliant in the way that it handled classical subjects of mytho-poetics in an understated subtext. For those looking to understand the film on this level I would bring your attention to a young girl named Winnie who has an epileptic seizure early in the film; This can be read as the initiation of a Shaman who undergoes a symbolic "death and resurrection." It parallels the coma of the young bullfighter that was gored at the beginning.

After a series of amusing, disturbing and tragic events, in the lives of those who were touched by the bull, a final miracle resolves the crisis that initiated this story wheel. The bullfighter is resurrected by events put into motion by the bull's death and subsequent consumption. Thus the dance continues, made possible by an unspoken covenant between man and beast to do battle, die and then live again. As a witness to the magic in this dance, Winnie assimilates the bull's power in the end with a child's toy; she wears a pair of glowing, flashing horns as an audience member in the arena. She is a fountain of bliss and a function of nature's wonder.

Sage choices in editing and music along with a strong cast of actors brought this story to life. Delphine Gleize is a talented filmmaker right out of the gate. I would repeat the observation made earlier that this is not a film for everyone. It's a film in multiple languages and carved into different connected stories. If you enjoy straying off of the beaten path from time to time and enjoy foreign films, I highly recommend this.

Trajectory: The Pulsing Global Balls of Coincidences.......2005-10-01

CARNAGE is a stunning film - though from the outset it should be made clear that it is not a film for all audiences. For those who cringe at gore, those who are frustrated by nonlinear storyline, and those who feel uncomfortable with magical realism - beware. This is a two-hour plus journey that demands concentration and suspension of belief to glean all of the multilayered meanings it holds.

Stylishly opening with the elegant dressing and preparation of a handsome young bullfighter discussing his incipient time in the ring with his father, the film moves into a the bull ring in Spain and while the young bullfighter is gored, a young girl watches in horror on a television in France. Thus the sequence of coincidences begins. The dead bull is dragged from the ring, butchered, and his various parts (meat to restaurants, horns to a taxidermist, testicles, eyes, etc) are sent to unrelated places in Spain, Belgium and France. Along the way we meet the child who observed the goring on television and discover she is epileptic and draws pictures where dogs are larger than humans (because her's is!), an actress searching for her center, a therapy group bonding and yielding primal screams while nude in a pool, a taxidermist who lives with his mother (the wondrous Esther Gorintin of 'Since Otar Left') and his estranged anatomist brother married to a woman pregnant with quintuplets (neither brother speaks to their damaged father), and so many more. Each of these characters encounters one form or other of the dead bull as food, souvenirs, gifts, etc: each time the consequences of these coincidences add greatly to the story.

Meanwhile our gored bullfighter lies in coma in need of a liver transplant and it is one of the various women touched by the bull's demise in some way that dies in an accident and becomes the saving liver donor to the young bullfighter. The manner in which all of these myriad coincidental effects of the original bullfight mesh (altered relationships, rejoined parent/child schisms, deaths, altered lives) are sewn tightly together by the end of this apparent conundrum of a story.

The cast is uniformly exceptional. The camera work and pacing are mesmerizing, making the willing eye of the viewer see far more than previously thought possible. Writer/Director Delphine Gleize is truly a talent to closely observe. The audience for this artwork may not be large, but for those souls seeking unique films this one is Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, September 05

Truth is stranger than fiction..........2005-02-01

While this film doesn't aspire to foist a "truth" upon the viewer, it perhaps best understood as an exercise in following a thread, seeing where it leads and how it intertwines with the different chracters presented in the film--interesting, but with inherent limitations. I give four stars for great casting, excellent music and cinematography, and scope of the issues covered. A good first film; hopefully things can only get better.

"It's a moment when all doubts vanish.".......2005-01-16

The film "Carnage" blends together the lives of various characters who are all connected by the body parts of a dead bull. The bull is killed in a bullfight, and then the various bits are sold and dispersed across several countries.

The various characters include:
-Carlotta (Chiara Mastroianni), an insecure young actress
-A bizarre old taxidermist and her ungroomed son who live in a squalid trailer
-An obnoxious scientist and his pregnant wife
-A married couple and their only child, Winnie (Raphaelle Molinier)
-Alicia (Angela Molina), a mother with a mysterious past & her schoolteacher daughter
-A young bullfighter

The film's themes are life and death. Several births take place, and several deaths occur throughout the film--the emphasis is on the cycle of life and rejuvenation. Characters who are intimately connected seem to experience difficulty understanding one another. Winnie's teacher, Jeanne, for example, can't understand why Winnie keeps drawing her dog bigger than humans, and she insists that Winnie needs to be more accurate. Winnie, a silent, observant child who suffers from epilepsy, doesn't bother to explain to her teacher that her pet dog, a Great Dane, is indeed bigger than she is. Similarly Jeanne and her mother, Alicia never really discuss the very serious problems in their relationship--although Jeanne lobs several snide barbs at her mother whenever there's an opening. The actress, Carlotta, seems to be experiencing problems connecting even with herself, and so she's attending classes to help change that. Some of the other characters--the taxidermist and her son, for example--are just too bizarre and too unpleasant to contemplate.

I have never had the best luck with films in which a physical object is tracked as it changes hands ("Red Violin", for example). I tend to find these films somewhat pieced together, and "Carnage" is exactly that--there are moments in the film which are excellent, but the film seems to become more fragmented as it progresses. Scenes that seem totally unconnected to everything else (the burn victims choir, for example) don't exactly add to the cohesion. The film includes footage of bullfighting, scenes in an abattoir and scenes involving taxidermy. The soundtrack is excellent, and the DVD also includes 2 short films from the same director, "Dirtie Basteroz" and "A Castle in Spain". Overall, this is an artful film--perhaps too artful. While I can't say that I enjoyed it very much, I won't automatically dismiss other work from the director, Delphine Glieze. In French, Spanish, Italian and Polish with English subtitles--displacedhuman

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The Destroyer!
THE POWER OF METAL!!!!! WILL PREVAIL!!!!!!
the WORST film by Chris Seaver yet... yes, the same guy who gets rejected by Troma again and again

Carnage for the Destroyer
Starring: Chris Seaver , Travis Indovina , and Teen Ape
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The Destroyer!.......2006-09-04

Once again, these reviews are plagued by people who, no matter how hard they try, will NEVER get Chris Seaver's delicious brand of nut-slapping humor.

Carnage is one of my favorite LBP movies. It combines the power of epic fantasy metal with enough blood, Seaveresque jokes, and lovable characters than you can shake your stick at. The tension between Teen Ape and Choach is hilarious, and watching Meredith Host play a Dominatrix is priceless. If you like horror, and you love bawdy, laugh out loud humor, you'll love Carnage!

THE POWER OF METAL!!!!! WILL PREVAIL!!!!!!.......2006-04-19

Ok yeah the last review was honest and true.. but I think they missed the complete point of this..

LBP movies are all about BAD OVERACTING, IMMATURE GROSS OUT JOKES, SILLY DEATH SCENES, and BAD GORE, not to mention obsurd endings...

This movie is awesome... it's all about a metal head teen geek that is obsessed with mythology, dragons and Halloween who accidentally ressurects a greek god of destruction APOLLYON aka the DESTROYER....

A strange cast of characters such as...CHOACH (the preteen looking sex god,full of himself, but still manages to get some tail), TEEN APE (a regular in the LBP films), MORGANA (the dominatrix obsessed with urinating) And another cowboy guys obsessed with Hank Williams, Merle Haggard & George Jones (but I can't remember his name right now.. crap) create an unusual splatter film for all strange little children to enjoy!

This movie is full of obsurd yet hilarious acting, goofy jokes, some nasty nasty yet FAKED smut, and more..

IF you were a teenage metal head.. you should definately check this out you'll get the jokes as where others wouldn't!

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the WORST film by Chris Seaver yet... yes, the same guy who gets rejected by Troma again and again.......2006-04-15

This is bad. Your typical no-budget video installation from hell project featuring bad lighting, sound that came from the mic on the camera most likely, a script (if you can call it that) written on the back of a gum wrapper, and acting that goes from bad to even worse over the course of the movie.

For all newcomers to the Chris Seaver (his fanbase probably only registers double-digits) he's the bad Troma wannabe filmmaker who think that all there is to Troma is blood, gore and boobies. And maybe he's right. But Troma does it better than anyone else and apparently they've rejected Chris Seaver's work ranging from his "Heather & Puggly Drops A Deuce" deal to his proposed "Sgt.Kabukiman sequel" to his now delayed "Dolphin Man" movie. Troma clearly doesn't want to work with this guy *hint* hint* So now Seaver is distributing his work through a company even poorer than Troma, Tempe Entertainment, which deals in soft porn.

And that is what this film is... bad splatter gore soft porn that doesn't have enough T&A to satisfy the porn crowd and doesn't have enough 'horror' to truly qualify as a scary movie. So why are you watching this movie? Hopefully, the answer is: you are not!

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