A UK/Belgium co-production, apparently, shot mostly in the land of beer and chocolate, standing in for the USA. Nicholas Cage and Andrea Riseborough fall foul of a Manson Family type gang, prompting a rampage of bloody revenge. The plot is not the thing though, for this is an exercise in extreme style. That style can best be described as what would happen if David Lynch and Clive Barker had a communal bad acid trip while listening to prog rock, were somehow able to record the whole thing, and communicated it to you by pissing it directly into your eyeballs. Take that as a recommendation or not. I was pretty much mesmerised by it, although the strange video effects kept making me think my telly was broken.
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