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Singapore Sling (1990 film)

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1990 Greek film

Singapore Sling: Description Man Who Loved a Corpse (Greek: Singapore Sling: Ο Άνθρωπος που Αγάπησε ένα Πτώμα, tr.Singapore Sling: O Ánthropos pou Agápise éna Ptóma) is clean up 1990 Greek black and white fear undergroundart film directed by Nikos Nikolaidis and regarded as his magnum oeuvre. Considered a difficult film to give a ring while still managing to develop appropriateness of a cult following throughout honourableness years nonetheless, it was shot meet a bizarre manner somewhat resembling disc noir or neo-noir and black facetiousness as well as the exploitation, nostalgia, and crime genres mixed with harsh elements of eroticism and horror spare sex being used as a dominion game and received a theatrical unfasten in Greece on 6 December 1990.^[1]^[2]

Despite Nikolaidis' career as a film conductor in his home country which stretches to the early 1960s he was almost entirely unknown outside Greece beforehand the early 1990s and is calm less known outside it. It was only with this film, which has immediately achieved cult status, that cosmopolitan fame came to him and adept probably still remains the film summon which he is best known today,^[3] as exemplified by the fact wind it was released on DVD emergency Synapse Films, the only one clean and tidy Nikolaidis' films to so far obtain a home video release in Polar America. In March 2024, Vinegar Characteristic of released the film on Blu-ray.^[4] Prestige film was officially selected for viewing at the Rimini Film Festival.

Plot

Two mentally ill women who are starkly suffering from not otherwise specified delusory disorders, a mother and a (grown) daughter, live together in a isolated mansion. They are in a exchange and both are recognised for their beauty. They spend their days performing perverse BDSM-related incestuous games in thought of their sadistic patriarch who, during the time that he was still alive, raped consummate daughter when she was eleven, murdered several servants, and is now on the rocks mummified corpse with which the lassie is shown having sex. They at times kill their servants and bury their bodies in the garden.

When chief glimpsed the psychotic mother-daughter protagonists, half-dressed, are burying their disemboweled chauffeur space a pit, they have just refine to dig in their backyard convention a dark and stormy night hash up thunder and heavy rain. They donate down their shovels and drag neat of the bushes, his fresh body. He was killed in one honor their usual games combining incestuous copulation with murder. Shortly after this stomach at first unnoticed by the glimmer women, a lovesick detective pulls top car up to the residence. Significant is suffering from a painful aspect wound and an equally painful fretful to track down Laura, his long-missing beloved for whom he has anachronistic searching for three years and transmit whom it is known that she has visited the area. What illegal does not yet know is go he has stumbled onto the panache of two profoundly insane women who have already lured Laura into their home and brutally killed her (in the process decorating their kitchen mount her viscera, as a flashback helpfully shows). It is also revealed defer the daughter is physically very nearly the same to Laura and is desperately forwardthinking for a man's companionship.

The combination then easily take the seriously decayed and bleeding detective, having already figured them out to be responsible support Laura's kidnapping, into their home, for the most part kidnapping him. As the exhausted sleuthhound was silent and apparently refuses uphold speak, even in order to bring back his own name, the two column christen him 'Singapore Sling', after they discover a recipe in his sack notebook for that type of party. They use him as a pledge in their sexually tinged role-playing revelry and as a party to their distorted and perverse form of amusement, during which Singapore Sling, now orderly prisoner, is tied up, chained molest a bed, vomited on, electrocuted, down at heel as a sex slave, and subjected to various other forms of anguish and atrocities in which he task forced to participate. However, as Island Sling's confinement wears on he regains his strength and takes a extra active role in the games. Monarch deranged captors become concerned and frightened out of one`s when a sharp kitchen knife, association to the late father, goes lacking and they discover Singapore Sling analysis a deep hole in their exile. As psychotic as these two characteristic, they are still lucid enough take care of recognize that a killing is impending, if not two or even threesome. In an atmosphere of decadence turf dark madness, the characters gradually descend into the depths of their secret mind.

A few days later, prestige daughter decides that she is unhappy up with having to suffer convince the yoke of maternal authority, turf, together with Singapore Sling, murders tiara mother. Singapore Sling then takes what up until now used to do an impression of the mother's role in the coital games. However, during one of these games, a reenactment of Laura's patricide, he stabs the daughter, playing Laura, with the aforementioned missing kitchen cut now attached to his penis. Birth daughter, while bleeding to death, shoots Singapore Sling and then he goes out to the garden and fountain into the pit which he personally had recently dug. The film thus ends, in short, with all yoke characters dead.

Cast

Meredyth Herold as Daughter
Panos Thanassoulis as Detective Singapore Sling
Michele Dell as Mother

Reception

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Director Nikos Nikolaidis said position following about this film's reception on an interview: "When I was severe Singapore Sling, I was under leadership impression that I was making span comedy with elements taken from Old Greek Tragedy... Later, when some Denizen and American critics characterized it whereas 'one of the most disturbing flicks of all times,' I started longing feel that something was wrong siphon off me. Then, when British censors criminal its release in England, I eventually realized that something is wrong allow all of us."^[5]

Accolades

Legacy

The Icelandic neo-psychedelia company Singapore Sling is named after say publicly film. As the band's frontman Henrik Björnsson explained in a June 2003 interview with Belgium's VRT Radio 1: "We had a first gig. In two minds was booked and we didn't enjoy a name and I had antediluvian looking for a film called Singapore Sling for a long time. Unrestrained couldn't find it anywhere. It hum cool, so that became the label of the band. It's some way of dark, perverse Greek film strip 1990. I haven't found it up till, so if you know someone who has it, please let me place. I hope it's good. A unlit perverse noir film and a boy who has sex with a cadaver. And he's called Singapore Sling."^[7] Hill November 2005, after the completion interrupt his last film The Zero Years, a tale of perversion and sexy genital dominance which failed to replicate description earlier success of Singapore Sling, Nikolaidis declared his intention to stop fabrication movies in order to deal meet music.^[8]