skrub_lyf3 OK so this film is seriously low budget and ended pretty quickly. BUT! this film was filled to the brim with a morbid sense of humor, revenge love, hate, anger, regret and tragedy.The film was complex but at the same time so.... SO SIMPLE. had an amazing sound track. it seriously has a helluva old school hell raiser/ deal with the devil-esque feel to it. especially when it came to the netherealm. Pearry Teo made this film phenomenal in all aspects.i found it in a box of movies on a burnt DVD. the cover was unreadable but could see the cover portrait of the Ouija tattoo (not actually a Ouija tattoo more of an alchemical map) so yeah i was determined as hell to find a way to watch it. finally got it to play on my best friends DVD and we both watched this film with our jaws on her mattress. lol. ESPECIALLY at Mr. SKINNIES DANCE! definitely a recommended film. thank you pearry teo for making this mind boggling Melt your brain style film.

gavin6942 An off-world look at the superstitious repercussions of tattooing an Ouija Board on your body. Hagen, who has a dead wife believes that he can revive her from the dead. Travis, a man who lost his brother and wants to join him in the afterlife. Morbius, a bartender who is betrayed by those he loves comes back from the dead to take revenge. And a strange man only known as Mr. Skinny protects the secrets of the Ouija Board and how the stories weave and affect each other. (summary taken from the director) Let me begin by praising this film before I explain why I gave it a mediocre rating. The best thing I can say is that this film has strong visuals, some appearing too quick to really analyze... but this works well, allowing the imagination to fill in the gaps. If there's a single redeeming part, it's the Mr. Skinny Show, especially the bouncing ball suicide song... who else can sing about the Easter bunny and sodomy? Also, there is a really nice score and soundtrack with a steady beat, and some industrial influences (not unlike Charlie Clouser's "Saw" work). I'm unclear who was responsible for this, or I would single them out... the music here deserves to be heard and be known.But yet, despite the great visuals, other parts come across as shot with home video, with too much shadow and realism. The first ten minutes drags on... the barbershop janitor, Hagen (Santiago Craig), is quite boring, and his droning on is simply blah. On the other hand, the character of Travis (Chad Grimes) is interesting, talks smoothly and he has the look -- if anyone knows how to open the gates of Hell, it's him. His side business is fascinating. But one good character does not make up for a bad one.The influences seem to be "Saw" and the work of Clive Barker. The skin map is kind of like Clive Barker's "Book of Blood" in a way, and others have compared this film to "Hellraiser". The plot is a bit sketchy, with the film focusing more on scenes of torture than much else... it seems heavily influenced by "Saw" with its traps (and the aforementioned music). While more artistic, it's not necessarily more disturbing -- a finger cutting scene did not faze me at all.Can you really use ketamine (Special K) to get off heroin? I suppose it's an improvement, but a ketamine addiction is nothing to sneeze at, either.While the visuals were great, the story was messy and dragged at times... I wonder if this could be fixed with the right editor? I would have to give this film a second viewing to properly review it, since I didn't grasp everything the first time through. But, unless my opinion radically changes, I think viewers would be perfectly safe in avoiding this title.

hinesgtrservice Necromentia takes from the horror genre as a whole and nearly steals from the great mind of Barker. The film isn't without it's individual style or creativity, though; the art style and atmospheric sets were very effective in creating the mood. The plot definitely holds your attention as well.The largest issue I found was that their time line simply did not work. There are basically three main characters whose fates ultimately intertwine throughout the film. In the often backwards form of storytelling here, two of the big events somehow happen 11 months apart and at the same time. Yeah, it didn't make sense. Perhaps the writers just forgot that they told you certain things happened 11 months prior to the opening scene, but things could not have happened the way they did in this movie. I won't get into it, because it will make your head hurt, but the way they laid the time line out just does not work. I'm a huge Barker fan and I really think that Hellraiser has been the finest example of well- done horror since it's release. This certainly takes from that, but comes nowhere near. The premise certainly is interesting, and the characters are interesting. A few of the characters in hell are just cliché and goofy - the gas mask guy standing out as a complete fail. Bottom line is that this film actually had some potential, but poor acting, sloppy and forgetful writing and a few poor visual choices prevent this film from being a recommendation. Don't listen to the people telling you it's great, it's most definitely not.

dschmeding Necromentia is a nice little underground horror movie that is taking a bow for Clive Barkers mighty Hellraiser. The basic concept of people fiddling with the occult to take a peek into the beyond (except for here they don't use a Rubik's cube but rather S/M body carving and occult symbols), the music, the demons with the hooks and chains on their faces... I guess its pretty obvious. Anyway, Necromentia is not a plain rip-off. It deals with the fate of 3 different characters whose fates are connected as you understand by the end of the movie which is kind of told in a reverse fashion. The movie is rather slow but tends to break out into some gory face bashing and twisted body-modification stuff. The visuals are gritty and green-tinted like in so many movies nowadays but the look of the movie is pretty cool. There is also some pretty twisted scenes here like the fore-mentioned S/M carvings (which in one scene start like your typical torture porn just to turn out to be a chick paying to get cut up by some kind of male fetish dominatrix) or a demon with a pig mask seducing people to commit suicide. The whole setup of these scenes is really great, so I was rather disappointed to see hell and its demons presented in such a low-tech fashion. Basically all hell visions are filmed in a dark corridor with steam pipes. In the beginning it works and the eerie feeling of the flickering lights looks great until you see every demon in this setting. The demons are pretty straight and often remind of a Marilyn Manson Video with gas masks and all the typical gimmicks... nothing special except for one which looks really messed up.There is really some potential here but the way they presented the core of the movie, which is hell, as well as the plot that pretty much leads nowhere are a real let down. So the interesting story telling devices and visual are just not enough to get Necromentia above the average.