GetPapa
Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible
Brendon Jones
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
Stephan Hammond
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Gary
The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.
Michael_Elliott
Sexandroide (1987)**** (out of 4) I'm not talented enough of a writer to fully explain that no matter what I say it won't be able to prepare you for this French movie. Three different "acts" are performed with each of them continuing to get stranger and stranger. The first deals with a drunk woman who goes into a bathroom where she begins to bleed from just about every spot on her body due to someone using a voodoo doll. The second story has a creature torturing a woman with needles and then moving to other objects. Finally, a sexy woman performs a sexual dance for a vampire.SEXANDROIDE comes from director Michel Ricaud and it's without a doubt one of the strangest and most bizarre movies you're ever going to see. I can't possibly go into details about how crazy and nutty this movie gets because during all three stories you keep telling yourself that you're not going to see anything weirder and yet it happens. The first story is extremely strong because of the way it cuts from the woman bleeding to the man putting holes through the voodoo doll. The way this is handled is extremely effective and will have your stomach tied up in knots.The second story is just as powerful and especially with the needle piercing, which goes through the woman's nipples but then they take it to another level with them going through her tongue and breasts. I'm not going to sit here and say that I know if it was real or if it was staged but it had me convinced that everything I was watching was real and this woman was being tortured. The third and final act is extremely sexy as the woman you're watching is quite beautiful but that bizarre feeling is still all over the place.SEXANDROIDE is hard to watch at times but it's impossible to turn away from it. It's a gross art-house picture that is actually extremely well-made and it gets all the graphic parts through in such detail that you can't help but also be turned off. There's certainly not another movie out there like it, at least from what I've seen and perhaps that's a good thing?
insomniac_rod
Man! Did I enjoy this movie! "Sexanroide" delivers a combination that cannot fail. It is presented in a Teatro Guignol format on it's most bizarre expression with a touch of experimental, it has good gore, an unsettling atmosphere, plenty of sleaze and more dark situations.You need to watch the "three acts" of Sexandroide in order to understand how truly bizarre it is.We got plenty of sleaze elements for fans of these kind of films. We got naked women (full frontal), suggestive sexual situations, plenty of torture, gore, decent physical acting, some French weirdness and more nasty surprises.At some point you might think about H.G. Lewis mainly because of the ridiculous gore and some inept situations that cannot reach any understanding.The term "Erotic Horror" comes to my mind... it wouldn't be crazy to call this a soft core horror effort. You see, there are plenty of moments involving sexual situations, naked women, and more.The production values are actually good. I don't know if every act was filmed in a single take. I bet it was. Some takes limit only to close-ups and not so inventive angles. I liked the sexy French women in this movie. Most of them had great bodies (specially the black widow) and were very sexual.I was very confused after watching the movie. I mean, I didn't understand what was going on but it took me more time to understand that I didn't have to understand anything in order to enjoy it.First act. The hot (very hot body) blonde getting it hard via voodoo. She's forced to get naked, puking, gets a bleeding vagina, gets burned, and hanged on.Second act. The depraved specter and the hot goth chick. The goth chick makes a weird dancing and soon after then specter returns to torture her. He pierces her nipples, whiplashes her, cuts his arm, stabs himself and gets his guts out, and then stabs her. Suddenly, they "return immediately to life" and walk out of the dungeon and walk upstairs. Really weird moment. Oh, and there's a romantic moment when the freak gives the goth chick a flower. Nice! Third act. My favorite. Black widow enters a room and stares to a coffin with a white cross painted on. She finds a vampire who suddenly returns to life and forces the black widow to get naked. They struggle and finally she undresses. She takes off her skirt or dress, her lingerie, and her sexy thighs. He grabs her from behind and bites her neck. Suddenly her face turns very white and the vampire returns to his coffin.The hot chick (who got a big, beautiful butt) dances as a stripper (very suggestive) and ends up rolling in the floor touching her vagina. Nice! Oh, Tina Turner music on the background. Then she gets inside the coffin and moves very sexy rubbing her body over the vampire.She puts a sign with a guy making "shhh". Do not disturb. We understand. I'd love to watch what happened inside.Well, this is a very bizarre movie that should be considered only by fans of sleaze and... ultra bizarre.
trashgang
Sexandroide, the discussion is on of this movie is French or from Belgium. No one knows but what the heck. It duration is almost an hour and 3 stories are told, well, shown, because no story has lyrics. Story one involves some voodoo done on a doll that's performed with a picture. Of course the girl on the picture gets what the voodoo dolly gets, simple as that, but first she had to get naked. A bit of blood, no gore. Second story, some demon a crossing between Frankenstein and The Phantom of the Opera and a girl performing black magic, naturally the girl has to undress and is being tortured by the demon, but here comes the fun part and the main reason why this is hunt after this flick. The girl first got pearced in her nipples and i can tell you, no tricks. After wards her tongue got pierced and then her breasts. But it goes weirder and weirder and is extremely violent and gory. The third storyline is just a girl visiting a coffin, but the dead one is Dracula, he bites her and she strips naked and performs an erotic dance on off all names Tina Turner! The tree stories are soft erotic, even when the third girl spreads it nothing is shown because her full bush. So if you are into gore and naked lasses, then this is your treat but hey, no official release yet and hard to get.
EVOL666
All I can say about SEXANDROIDE is...WTF?!?!?!? This is honestly one of THE STRANGEST films I've ever seen, and that's sayin' a lot. Since I don't know any factual details about the film, I'll give you my interpretation: SEXANDROIDE is a short "anthology"-style film. It's done in a "performance-art" style - much like watching a video of a play. It appears that the intention of the film was to mimic the "Grand Guignol" theater style performances that were popular in France in the late 1890's - 1960's. SEXANDROIDE looks just like something that I would expect to have seen on one of the stages in Paris - but with a more modern twist.Act 1 is an intriguing little number about a drunk broad at a bar. Someone doesn't like this chick, because while she's sitting and enjoying a few cocktails, a man that we never fully see is making a voodoo doll of our poor pub-patron. Home-girl obviously had one too many and goes to the bathroom to puke. At this point Unknown-Man starts "playing" with his voodoo doll. First he rips it's clothes off - which is duplicated hilariously to our "heroine" in the bathroom. Next he stabs the doll in various places including her eyes, tits, and of course her vagina - which are all then interpreted physically to Drunk-Lady. He cuts the doll's throat, burns it's face, and hangs it - again, all which is then transferred to Drunk-Lady. END OF ACT 1.Act 2 has a gothy looking chick descending some "creepy" stairs into a dungeon. She snoops around for a little bit and then some freak dressed in black with a hood covering his head shows up. Goth-chick is startled, and shoots the hooded guy several times. He lays there for a minute, then gets up and leaves (?!?). Once he's gone, Goth-chick strips and does a really ridiculous dance. Then she grabs a whip and starts flogging herself. Hood-man comes back and is pretty turned on by Goth-chick's little show. He pulls his mask off and reveals that he's some sort of really poorly made-up ghoul-thing. Now for the fun stuff...Ghoul-Man handcuffs Goth-chick to a chair and starts torturing her. He starts by piercing her nipples multiple times (which I'm pretty sure is real). When that's not enough, he takes a lllloooonnnnggg needle and runs it through the skin on the underside of her breast(note: I watched this film with my girl, she thinks this scene was faked, I think it was real - guess you'll have to decide for yourself if any of you decide to pick this one up...). He then takes a knife and cuts her face several times - then he hacks his own arm with the knife in cheesy-magician fashion. Next, he graphically stabs one of her eyes out (which was apparently a "staple scene" of the traditional Grand Guignol theater...), then stabs her in the chest. Ghoul-Man then stabs himself in the stomach and pulls his guts out. They lay together on the ground for a while, then they both get up, Ghoul-Man gives Goth-Chick a rose, and they both walk back upstairs (?!?!?!?!). END OF ACT 2. This one was sufficiently gory and sleazy, and plays like a mix of FLOWERS OF FLESH AND BLOOD meets THE WIZARD OF GORE on 14 hits of acid...Now for the absolute STRANGENESS that is Act 3. A heavily made-up guy is laying in a coffin. A pretty hot chick in "mourning" attire comes in to look at the dead guy. Coffin-guy (who turns out to be a vampire...) wakes up, gets out of the coffin, and starts groping Hot-mourner. He then "violently" tears all her clothes off (in pretty hilarious fashion, as you can tell that she's trying to help him with her tights because the Vampire is having some trouble with them...), and bites her on the neck. Vampire goes back and lays in his coffin - Hot-Mourner appears to be dead...or is she???...When Hot-Mourner get's back up, she's wearing ridiculous vampire make-up and some fake dollar store fangs. She then starts doing a ridiculous dance (that looks like something that you would see in a low-rent strip-club in West Virginia - but this chick's hotter than most you would see up there...) to TINA TURNER MUSIC !!!???!!!. OK...stop tape people...this has officially become one of, if not THE strangest thing I've ever seen on film. The crazy make-up Mourner chick doing a stripper dance to Tina Turner music is so unexpected that I almost spit my mouthful of cheap bourbon all over my girlfriend. Don't believe me? Ask her or track this one down for yourself...anyway...After dancing to not one, but TWO Tina Turner joints, our Hot-Mourner-Turned-Vampire-Turned-Stripper climbs into the coffin with Vampire-man and dry humps him for a little bit. I guess the Count gets tired of us watching, and hangs a "do not disturb" sign on the side of his coffin and shuts the lid. END OF ACT 3.First off, I'm not sure that my above descriptions really do justice to just how strange and entertaining this Z-grade "masterpiece" really is. SEXANDROIDE has absolutely everything that you could want from this sort of production - "interesting" story lines, tons of gore and nudity, and NAKED TINA TURNER DANCING!!! I honestly hadn't seen such inept stripping since the last time I was in Tijuana. All three ACTS showed originality, some good gore FX (in the case of the first 2...), and lots of gratuitous full-frontal in all three episodes. I really enjoyed the hell out of this one. Total schlock at it's "finest" that will probably only really appeal to exploit/gore fans. This one reminded me of an H.G. Lewis film if it was done in the 80's as a play - and with NAKED TINA TURNER DANCING!!! (sorry, just can't get over that part...). 9/10 from me on just a straight enjoyment level. Most others will think it's trash.