Demons cross the divide between the world of dreams and waking reality to capture a victim and drag him back to their nightmarish realm.
A szenvedés víziói, 恐怖的梦幻, Visões do Sofrer
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you cannot tell me this isn't a 120 min industrial/nu metal music video
This is a crazy ass movie. Highly recommend. It is quite sexually explicit so watch with caution.
This has some of the most haunting and creepy imagery and atmosphere I’ve honestly ever seen. The use of green on a dull tainted lens with the somber sounds of wind through trees in the background is literally nightmare fuel. And what’s even better is that that is what the movie is about. Vampires and nightmares.
Some of the scenes look cheaper than others, and the movie drags a bit in the middle before picking back up, but overall its a really good “extreme” film.
If you want to watch this it’s currently on Amazon Prime for $3.99.
WATCH THE 85 MINUTE DIRECTORS CUT, NOT THE 2 HOUR VERSION.
Number of watches: 2
I survived Visions of Suffering.
Honestly this felt less like a movie and more like accidentally downloading a cursed AVI file from some abandoned Russian horror forum at 3AM.
The whole thing gave me a lil Melancholie der Engel and Philosophy of a Knife (of course) vibes with all the disturbing and disgusting imagery mixed with surreal nightmare logic. Constant flashing edits, repeated shots, rave scenes, ugly early CGI nightmares, body mutation, slow motion, metal/dark ambient music blasting into your skull for two hours straight. Feels more like a two hour nightmare music video than an actual narrative film.
And ngl the body horror energy reminded me of Tetsuo at times. Just flesh, decay, noise, screaming, wet darkness and psychological…
this along with 100 gecs would literally kill an Amish person if played for them
It’s been well over 3 years since I originally viewed this film, and in my original viewing I watched the first cut of the film. I was always quite fond of the film as well as Iskanov’s other film, Nails, but never viewed the Final Director’s Cut of this film until now.
Visions of Suffering, in both cuts of the film, deals with a man obsessed with death who has bizarre nightmares he can never decipher as well as getting random and cryptic phone calls. After his phone breaks one day, he calls a repairman over which somehow triggers the monsters of his dreams to escape into reality. Outside of that small explanation, there’s no real way to explain this film.…
I have nightmares almost every time it rains. These dreams are so real that I can smell death after awaking. But I thank heaven that I can always wake up.
And that's how the movie starts. A nightmare that ends with a death scene. The story is about the link between dream, death and raining.
- Dream, as a reality rejected by our minds.
- Death, as an eternal odyssey that haunts everything and everyone.
- Rain, as a magical tool that lets you see the reality in a totally different light.
Considering these favorable elements of mine, put into such concepts like that, it became so clear to me, what the mysterious repairman quotes in the middle of the movie:
If you die in your sleep when it's raining during the day, you'll stay with the dead forever.
Absurd visions. Great movie.
A great example of the patented Iskanov Braindrill Technique™ (IBT™): nonsense interludes to anesthetize the senses followed by onslaughts of DV-vomit and bodily goos. Just barely worth the abominable runtime even if it's just for the Shevchenko soundtrack and the scattered tidbits of nastiness.
I'm glad Visions of Suffering didn't stick with that edgy faces-of-death shit because I want to watch a movie, I don't need to see any more real life horror. I don't know how many people are going to run out to watch more suffering at a time like this, but if you do be warned: at least half of this 2-hour movie has strobe lights.
They could have cut at least an hour of footage from the goth torture club, the endless necrophilia scene with disgusting sound FX and men beating women to a pulp but that's just personal preference.
The "men in black" Russian vampire-aliens were creepy as hell and the sound FX felt like an assault on my…
85 min DX Cut
I like Iskanov's stuff but I don't know if I would recommend it to anyone, and that especially applies here. Rly dug the Hot Topic visuals juxtaposed against some truly atrocious shit. Some of this I did NOT want to see 😡 visions of suffering, indeed! Watch Nails instead.
This is some of the best colorful nonsense out there.
(Note: viewing date incorrect)
Has a certain level of low budget charm but unfortunately a lot of that gets increasingly stripped away by how inane and preoccupied with T&A it is. The segments in the forest and the apartment have little bits of cool animation and the latter does a good job of building a claustrophobic atmosphere but it regularly cuts to a goth club where women strip off and gyrate for the camera and you can just smell the guy behind the camera who convinced these girls to do this because "we are making a movie." Hope they got paid at least. These segments also go for shock tactics but are undermined by how ineptly they're carried out. A woman gets viciously beaten…
Edit: Forgot to mention how fucking fantastic the sound design is, along with the score and soundtrack it's literally fucking perfect.
This is everything I love about cinema in one. A low budget disturbing horror film with imagery straight from a bad drug trip splattered all over it and shares similarities with just about all my favourite filmmakers yet this is made by a person barely anyone has heard of. This is beautiful, in so many ways. But it's also kind of amateur and lackluster but yet again I got so so so much out of this. I'm tired and my head is too clouded to write a proper review. I watched the two hour version and I'm pretty sure the directors cut is the shorter one but I'm not too sure. I'm at a loss for words now but I will be revisiting this.
