Nails
by Andrey Iskanov
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Actor: Alexandra Batrumova, Andrey Iskanov, Svyatoslav IliyasovDirector: Andrey Iskanov
Brand: Repnet LLC
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Russian (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-16
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Unearthed Films
DVD Reviews of Nails
DVD Review: A Surreal Nightmare
Summary: 5 Stars
I got this movie for Christmas as a gift from my grandma. She understands I love horror as well as anime and manga and I had asked for this film as well as Visions of Suffering for this year's gift. I just watched the movie early Wednesday Morning and was floored, it was if I had dropped LSD and watched my TV come to life.
How to explain this film? Well Let's say Quentin Tarantino and David Lynch met at Cannes and decided to remake Eraserhead with an assassin instead of a guy with big hair. The plot structure is not linear, more of an arc. An assassin, played by the director's resident composer Alexander Schevchenko, is having nightmares about his previous kills and decides to solve his problems by hammering 6 inch nails into his head after reading an article about a man who had over 500 nails in his head and suffered no problems whatsoever. It works. . . too well. Suddenly we are thrust into this day glow colored world where the line between reality and fantasy blurs in gory fashion.
Having seen "Philosophy of a Knife", the director's pseudo documentary on Japan's Unit 731, I knew what to expect just not how it was presented. Mr Iskanov is becoming the Russian arm of the Splat Pack, a group of directors in the US whose films are extremely violent. But unlike Eli Roth or James Wan and Leigh Whanell whose films are more show than tell Iskanov is more of the artistic cousin of the pack filling his film with surreal imagery reminiscent of the Brothers Quay or Luis Bunel's "Un Chien Andlou" The gore is there, oh yes it's there in spades, but it is an afterthought,and has no real purpose. The star of the show and the audience's focus is the visuals and story, allowing us to get involved like never before.
It is a shame that Mr. Iskanov's films are not more widely recognized as those of his foreign counterparts like Dario Argento or Takashi Miike. If you haven't seen this movie, pick it up. I guarantee that you will never be the same.
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