A troubled group of children living on the same block are haunted by a talking dog named Labby who brings them on surreal hell-rides between different dimensions and time periods.
(Source- Imdb.com)
Where the Dead go to Die Trailer- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6-aCCqCc_0
I did not watch this movie, but I did see many long clips of it on Youtube as well as listen to Youtubers critique Where the Dead Go to Die, a film that I feel like I should talk about despite me not watching the entirety of it.
I do not normally review a movie I have not fully seen, but I believe I've watched enough scenes that my information will be valid and useful for my viewers.
When I saw this movie's horror, I felt that it was my responsibility to warn people not to see this. There is no debate on whether this movie is good or not. No, this is something that should not be witnessed to the public.
If you could not tell from the poster (or the trailer) the art style for the backgrounds and the characters looks very ugly as a result of the creators' botched computer animation. All of the characters' movements are very odd and stiff-like, as if they're containing themselves from making normal body movements. Speakings of characters, the voice acting for most-if not all-of them are what I'd call, ugly. The voices for the children in this story do not fit with their appearance at all. The voice actors don't seem to try at all with the kids as their voices sound just like an adult failing as they try to make their pitch higher. But the scariest part of this movie is not the animation or the voice acting, but the story as a whole-if you would call it that.
Apparently, this is considered a anthology film, a collection of short stories that are all connected in some way. However, there is so much gore and violence that these stories are hard to interpret and eventually you just feel sucked into a world of nightmares that Satan would present to you on a silver platter.
Besides the point, these are the short stories that are included. The first one involves a dog who tries to convince a young boy to kill his mother because she is carrying his unborn sibling who the dog believes is the antichrist. The second story involves a man who kill and steals the memories of people and goes through some weird delusions. The final story goes into the life of a disfigured boy who falls in love with a beautiful girl named Sophia and her father offers the boy tapes to watch of Sophia as she is shown being involved in child pornography.
To be honest, these stories can actually work if they were developed properly. Even with the mention of antichrists and porn, if the story was constructed well, then it could have a chance at being one of those popular horror films like the Saw franchise or Friday the 13th. But the creators don't seem to give their viewers a break to calm down from the madness, but only amplify it to its highest degree. There is no chance to understand the pain these characters go through because we're hit with another scary image after another.
It's like if I wanted to sound smart in front of a crowd of people and I start rambling on and on using mature terms but with no significance to the conversation. It's not like I'm going to sound smart if I keep saying words like hypothenuse, mitochondria, dictionary, scale and senses, and that rule is the same for this movie.
Just because it shows a lot of blood with a baby being ripped out of the mother's vagina, a monster orgy, and a minor engaging in copious amount of sex, this ends up being a movie not set on weights. There is no tension on whether or not the characters will do the right or wrong thing because you quickly discover that the wrong things will always occur and therefore, the viewers are left numb by the end of the movie. Sure, the scenes were definitely very disturbing but it also felt very dumb to present. They really overdo it with showing way too much imagery of disturbing things, especially the child porn. There is a rule that for films it's better to show and not tell, but when it comes to minors, that's just something you can't shove in the face of your audience. Perhaps subtle implications that the child was being abused like marks on her skin, older men grazing her thigh, or her just fearing going home could've sufficed.
To end this review, I will list of all of the things throughout the clips that I witnessed and put links to a few videos that I watched that you may want to see for yourself. If you are curious about watching Where the Dead go to Die, then don't think I blame you for it. I was curious myself, and that's why I watched several reviews of the same movie in hopes that I would hear more about what it offers. I got my fill of it at this point and I'm positive that I don't need to watch all of it to gain more of the horror I already discovered. But if you're brave enough to handle the whole thing then I won't stop you; but consider this review your warning. This movie will be very screwed up, and as a side note, a few scenes have flashing lights that may trigger seizures, so be very careful if you're prone to that.
SCENES & IMAGES IN THE FILM
Blood
Talk of religion, Jesus and Satan
Death
A baby being torn out of the vagina of a woman
A man's penis being torn off
Mutilation/Decapitation
Beastiality
Maggots
Faceless people
Orgies
Masturbation
Child pornography
Pedophilia
Child abuse
Rape
LINKS
I preferred this Youtuber's review of the movie the most. The second link shows a lot of what goes on in the movie.
Animat's Classic Review- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojb2QFXmMtw
Animat Watches WTDGTD- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbl2UDx_TKA
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