Vashirdfel
Simply A Masterpiece
Crwthod
A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.
Erica Derrick
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
sfleuryfacebook
I had such high hopes for this movie and yet it crashed and burned. It promised a mix of elements that I love, a campy, cult, horror musical in the likes of Rocky Horror or Little Shop yet it just turned out so wrong. The one thing I did appreciate was the production design, with the detailed sets and the elaborate and spooky costumes, however, it was all lost to the catastrophe of the film. The acting was one dimensional and cringy, the editing was atrocious and repetitively pulled me out of the film, there were many useless scenes and introductions and each song sounded like it took a minute to write. Again, I really liked the concept and wish it could have worked out better.
jbar19
Wow. I had really high hopes. The makeup and art direction were excellent. GREAT costuming. The story, music and lyrics were atrocious, self indulgent and pedantic and the whole production screamed of low budget, gay, off Broadway theater.Imagine if Tim Burton lost a bet and was forced to direct a movie written by a 15 year old with a circus clown fetish.But the worst part of this story is that the libretto/Lyrics lacked any sort of meter or cohesiveness. The lyrics stubbornly refuse to rhyme or even stay relevant to the song. There is no sense of structure to the song. AND then the author repeats these mistakes as if to highlight them. My Imitation of the fault in the lyrics"Reds are Red Violets are blue, no one is going to help the sheep remain in the light that muddies the water." no one is going to help the sheep remain in the light that muddies the water." no one is going to help the sheep remain in the light that muddies the water."No meter, no rhyme, poor structure. Very little to see here. Poor Paul Sorvino.
Pixie Noir
A few years ago I was really into Emilie Autumn and I had seen Repo! around that time because of the Emilie Autumn fan group. But I really didn't pay attention to her after early 2011.I found out about a month ago that Emilie had a new album and stared in the devil's carnival, which I had heard was a great sequel to Repo!. I listened to the soundtrack even before watching the movie and adored it. I felt the songs and what I had seen of the fantastic costumes and make-up held up to my love of Repo!. But once I finally saw the movie, I was sadly underwhelmed.The concept was fascinating but it lacked a well structured storyline for each character in the carnival. I wanted more from the scorpion and I wish Emilie & The Bloody Crumpets characters had spoken parts. I just overall felt it should have been longer as well, it was too short IMHO. Maybe if it was longer the characters could have been developed better, who knows??? Still in love with the soundtrack, I'll hold that dear to me but never gonna get over how underwhelmed I was with the characters in the movie. If you love Repo! I probably wouldn't recommend watching this.
nicothodes
So I had low hopes for this going in, as I thought Repo! was a bad film trying too hard to be edgy, but I like Emilie Autumn so I figured I could give it a go. After all, Repo! was at least fun to make fun of.This film didn't even have the decency to let me laugh at it. The music is atrocious and to make it worse, most of the people can't sing. It's also disturbingly misogynistic. Never mind that the greedy woman obsessed with her looks is what should be an outdated stereotype, she is forcibly stripped and whipped. While she is being whipped, carnies crawl between her legs. It's all so obviously done for titillation, as she's left in frilly pants and there is no blood (which allows the filmmakers to ignore how horrific this is and just go "yup, she had sexual assault coming to her, damn thief").Unfortunately, that's not the worst thing about the film. No, there is another woman who is there because she was...killed by her abusive partner? What? Why is she in hell? Then she decides to trust this guy who she runs into, and he kills her. Then Emilie Autumn sings this song about how she should have known better than to trust him and this is clearly all her fault. Yeah, no. Abuse victims are not to blame for the abuse inflicted on them. Ever.So yeah, the women there get tortured and murdered for fun (a previous reviewer said that it would have made more sense to have the thief be crushed to death under the weight of the things she's stolen, which would have both made sense and removed the rapiness), and the guy gets sent off to heaven with nothing remotely bad happening to him.Movie, you promote victim-blaming and you sexualise a woman being tortured. You are bad and you should feel bad.
