NEONS

I don't remember when was the first time I heard about Bruce LaBruce, but I do remember a story from around the time we decided to start Sex Before Suicide fanzine (pre-Neons). That was in September 2009, my friend Zero and I just saw the Etrange festival's program in Paris and were totally bummed when we realized we missed the 'carte blanche' of Bruce the day before. We were pissed! Firstly, because this is one truly talented filmmaker, and secondly because he was introducing his movie Otto Or Up With Dead People, as well as a selection of movies he chose to show. The next day, we went to see some japanese pinku flicks in the aftermoon. The evening screening was great, Larry Cohen's God Told Me To was playing and it was weird as fuck. Those who've seen the movie understand what I'm saying. To get back to Bruce LaBruce, when we were back home we had this discussion about how No Skin Off My Ass plot was similar to an anecdote in Zero's life, and a subj...

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« We're all Frankies... We're all lying in hell... » Do you know this song,  'Frankie Teardrop'  by Suicide? Because Combat Shock's plot is based on this song. The movie follows one day in the miserable life of Frankie, a Vietnam veteran deeply and dangerously traumatized by his experience in the jungle. Every day. Every night. Every single minute he is haunting by his past and can't help it but trying to remember what happened back there. Flashbacks give us clues throughout the movie. He got lost in the jungle while on a mission, and can't recollect how he got there, stalked by a group of vietnamese. He finally ended prisonner, tortured and locked up in a cage for months and months, slowly falling into insanity. He woke up at the hospital, where he spent two years recovering. He is now living in a slum near the railroad in Staten Island, New York, with his wife and kid whose deformed due to agent orange effects. Sick and tired of hearing the cre...

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A lot of people talk about snuff movies, this urban legend running for years about amateur movies showing real murders on screen. But what is really a snuff? Because if it's only a murder caught on a tape, we can witness a lot on the magic box called TV. Is the  video  of the bullet passing through Kennedy's head a snuff? Is the exploded skull of  Budd Dwyer  in a live conference on TV a snuff? Or the videos of executions live from death rows, the defenestrations of a hundred of people from the 11/09 are snuff? Most people would say no. Maybe so it's a movie showing a chosen victim suffering, screaming to death under torture, showing visually shocking and repulsive details... Mondo films, like the most famous one «  MONDO CANE  » from 1962, are considered as the snuff pioneers I guess, as for many years people thought these fake documentaries about violent rites from old tribes were real. Such as all the trials and rumors about CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST or j...