Flowers

Multiply The Human Centipede and A Serbian Film x 2 and you get Flowers!! Not recommended for weak characters with weak stomachs, there is a risk of health damage! It's a dark depressing thing! Flowers is a cheap underground movie that is definitely not for the mainstream and normal audience. But it is also not downright stupid with no plot, there is more here than anyone would have thought before watching it. It is silent, so not a word is spoken for the whole film. We follow the plot only through symbols, images and metaphors, which is interesting but requires a certain amount of attention and imagination. In a way, it is a kind of perverse art for jaded viewers. The film takes place in a place called Crawlspace, where six dead girls are going through their purgatorial "pre-crawl", crawling amongst decomposing corpses, entrails, dirt and shit. Into this, of course, we find out about their previous lives through photos and peeks into rooms. At the same time, we also get to see what the sleazy pervert above them is doing in the house, and at times he does some really insanely twisted things in there that I didn't care for. The whole thing takes place in a disgusting setting, the music is very impressive and disturbing, the actresses who went into it have my personal respect, the atmosphere is surreal and the make-up and the practical effects are good. (The scene where one girl wants to stuff her guts back into her stomach hit me the hardest). I've definitely never seen anything like this and anyone who likes weird, experimental and twisted films would be in for a treat. Others won't pick up the film, will condemn it and throw it in the trash, which is perfectly normal for a film this controversial. I, however, will probably never forget it. 7/10. (24.03.2021)