Taeter City (2012) | Gory Action

Non-stop ultra violent splatter gore. I was going to say this is really similar in tone to 2013's Hotel Inferno but when I looked it up I saw it was the same director, so there you go. The concept is kind of cool, an authoritarian cannibalistic society where criminals are slaughtered for meat to feed the citizens. It's like something right out of a Dark Horse comic. A few things I enjoyed, the lead has very unique facial features, but it's not fx, it's like a birth defect or something. But he's not treated as some kind of freak because of that, instead he's just a regular character. The ideas themselves are unique, and differentiate it from something like guinea pig or a beelzebub "movie". The green video color grading gets very old very quick, it's a cheap and lazy technique that makes everything look bad. Green lighting would have actually looked 10x better if you wanted a green cast and all you need is a light and a gel. The most obnoxious thing about this film though is that 99% of the entire movie is made up of extreme closeups. I understand the budgetary constraints with a project like this but come on, you cannot tell WTF is going on when you are zoomed in ALL THE TIME. There's not much of a story to speak of by I have a feeling that's not really the point so it gets a pass on that.

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