VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

bookito Well I watched this movie the same way I cook my chicken No matters how you cook it it will taste the same. So I thought to give a change to this chicken. Is very rare to watch a movie nowadays and say, wow We deal with Hollywood big money as we deal with Juntin In music. Everything is fake and bad and people makes you Think is the only one truth. Well this is a movie that goes to your nerves, Is not the gore of this movie that caught my attention If was the cruelty and the love in extreme situations. When you are completely lost what you decide or when the Pain brakes you. Was like an eternal lover looking for Real love. But the last scene ...lost. So we come back it was jusf not to find somebody as he said in the Beginning of the movie. Just a psichopath with a movie. Or at least the end of the movie can give you more. Little more. Well done, very well directed. Good fx for the age . the only sifference with other serial killers movies is with this one you will not laugh. For me recommended +18

redrobin62-321-207311 I first saw this movie about a year ago. The version I had back then was slightly blurry and lacked subtitles so, in essence, a silent horror movie. I thought at the time that the movie was "just" okay. I didn't bother looking for the subtitles online because I figured, "Eh, what could they be talking about? I'm sure it's pretty standard based on what was on screen." Wrong!The dialog was essential to the movie. The doctor, with his stoic presentation, was an absolute mind f*ck to those two lovebirds. It gave the film much more layers than I'd thought.As a student of extreme human behavior I try to understand what motivates people to do the things they do - go to war, torture people, burn down villages, convince one group of people that another group is worthless and annihilate them, genocide is in their best interest, etc. On one level it sucks that the innocent lovers were randomly chosen to be experimented on like that. No one has the right to perpetrate such discomfort and malice upon another, but the fact of the matter is, it does exist and we can't turn a blind eye to it.The second level is mankind is forever searching and experimenting and trying to discover different ways to live, survive and improve his way of life. Experiments on man and animal, as gruesome as they have been over the years, have occurred often for our benefit, from testing shampoo and mascara products on monkeys to getting mice high so they can test anti-narcotic drugs on them. No, that's not fair, but it is what it is. It does exist. We can protest all month long on the streets of every living metropolis in the world but mankind will still push on, some of his ways will be to our liking and some won't.I thought the acting was well done in this film, from the doctor's matter-of-fact stoicism to the genuine fear in the victims' faces. The music was eerily apropos, too - classical music playing while the most gruesome activity imaginable is going on. That contrastive idea worked in 'A Clockwork Orange' and it's also effective here. As a psychological thriller 'Grotesque' is a success. As a gorefest it also surpassed the expected.On a personal note, the playing of 'Pomp and Circumstance' at the end made me angry. It reminded me of high school, a time when I was bullied, neglected, made fun of and, for the first time, considered suicide. It's interesting, and probably fitting, that 'Pomp' would show up in a film like this. Maybe the director knew that the people who would see this film would themselves have been the victim of bullying and may even have PTSD. It's been said that victims of abuse who expose themselves to new images of violence is a phenomenon that does occur but this "repetitive compulsion" hasn't been fully explored. http://www.cirp.org/library/psych/vanderkolk/Watch this film if you dare, not as entertainment, but as a cautionary tale. It explores the depths of man's depravity well, and you may as well see this version because Hollywood won't touch this subject matter with a ten foot pole.

chribren "Grotesque" is a Japanese horror movie directed by Koji Shiraishi year 2009. This film only runs for at least 70 minutes.Not much plot is in this movie. A sick doctor kidnaps a couple and torture them in different ways, often in gory ways.As a torture movie, this film can clearly be classified as a "torture-porn", or more likely "gorno". With a lot of torture throughout this film, it can also be called a modern variant of the infamous "Guinea Pig"-film series, especially the first two movies being "Devil's Experiment" and "Flower of Flesh and Blood", which "Grotesque" seems to pay a homage to.Like other films like "Ichi the Killer" and "Murder-Set-Pieces", this film was said to be available in Norway with an 18-rating, only to get banned later by Medietilsynet (the Norwegian answer to MPAA). Even on the Danish DVD I have it clearly says that this film is banned both in Norway and the UK.In the UK this film is banned by BBFC, because this film has minimal narrative or character development and features more humiliation, brutality and sadism.Absolutely NOT for weak stomach and any viewer under the age of 18.So, can you manage to stomach through this Japanese hell of a movie, which is even worse than "Hostel" and "Saw" altogether?

Andres Salama A Japanese entry into the torture porn genre is more graphic yet at the same time less powerful (not to mention entertaining) than similar Western movies, like Saw, Hostel or a Serbian Film. A psycho who dresses as a doctor (and strongly resembles a young Takeshi Kitano) kidnaps a young couple and subjects them to all sort of degrading tortures. There is at least one powerful erotic scene as the captor fondles the bound captive girl genitals during several minutes. And there is an outrageous ending that resembles the ending of some of Takashi Miike's films. But for most of the time, I found this film pretty dull.