Develiker terrible... so disappointed.

Cortechba Overrated

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Red-Barracuda I think it would only be fair to say that Singapore Sling is more than a little bit on the weird side of the cinematic spectrum. The story in this Greek oddity takes place over the course of one stormy night. A psychotic mother and daughter, who live in a remote villa, imprison a man whom they christen Singapore Sling. Much strangeness follows.This has to be described as a true one off. In some ways this may very well be a good thing, as this is a movie with some content elements that can charitably be described as somewhat unpleasant. But it's no ordinary exploitation shockfest; it's an experimental art film as well. For starters, its shot in black and white and it's full of strange dialogues, deeply unusual characters, visual invention, genre clashing and an absolute barrow load of transgressive material. Consequently, it's very hard to categorise. It one solely recommended for those with a taste for the bizarre. It recalls film-noir, with its hard-boiled voice-overs from the main character – except this is delivered in Greek, while the mother and daughter speak exclusively in English; ordinarily details like these would raise questions but in this case it just seems par for the course. This man, Singapore Sling, pursues an ex-lover who vanished after visiting these women; her name is Laura which is a nod the 1944 film-noir…I think.But all this film-noir malarkey is juxtaposed with a great deal of extreme material; like two completely differing film genres colliding at random. To that end we have lots of sexual torture and humiliation, which includes, of all things, graphic urination, vomiting and…masturbation with fruit. If you think any of its erotic then good luck to you but I think it's only fair to say that this sort of stuff will titillate an extremely small demographic. I personally found a lot of what I encountered in here pretty repulsive to be perfectly honest but the fact is that this is a well-made and acted film, while its sheer originality was impressive. So it does have an impact. Utterly strange and wilfully different, Singapore Sling is a movie that should be approached with some caution but its most likely not going to resemble anything else you've ever seen before. Whether or not that's a good thing I will leave you to be the judge of.

Pornography_and_Satori Let me start off by saying that there is absolutely no similarity between this "film" and the 1944 film Laura, aside from the fact that both films feature a detective, and a character named Laura. Those reviewers who are comparing both films for whatever reason are, confused. Not that there's much to understand about Singapore Sling, but…Being as every reviewer has rehashed the events that take place in this "film" I will not belabor them here. Nikolaidis has created what may well be the most genuinely weird intentionally weird p.o.s ever made. Others (Harmony Korine, David Lynch, Troma, etc) have tried and failed, making only boring dreck that people with worse taste than fans of SS could pretend to enjoy. Others (Pasolini, David Lynch, etc) because of their legal insanity, unwittingly make films that give the viewer a tiny peek at the vast ocean of lunacy that is the Director's "mind" (they don't know any better). Singapore Sling is a film that succeeds in being intentionally unintelligible, shocking, infuriating and "against the grain" for the sake of it. That's all there is to it. There is nothing more here. Nothing in the idiotic, pointless and cryptic dialogue. Nothing in the spastic, borderline drug induced performances. Nothing in the clunky cinematography, the grade school play level set design, the painfully failed comedy, the tired and poorly staged violence and sex acts….absolutely nothing. It's not good horror, mystery, or black comedy.It is excellent exploitation trash in the truest sense. There are times when it comes of as typically nauseatingly pretentious, but for the most part it seems like Nikolaidis isn't taking anything seriously. He knew the type of "film" he wanted to make and the type of experience he wanted the audience to have. In other words, he wanted to make the sickest most insane film nobody had yet seen, all else be damned. He comes close. Though, I haven't read any interviews or anything involving a "director's statement" or what have you, and probably never will, so who knows what exactly his intentions were. I can't imagine why anyone would care anyway… Check it out, if you have absolutely nothing better to do with your life.

Scarecrow-88 A private investigator, obsessed with a woman named Laura he was tracking, leads to the palatial estate and grounds of a very warped mother-daughter team of wackos who like to play out "make-believe" scenarios and murder hired chauffeurs. The film looks like a film noir, gorgeous B&W photography and plays like a depraved version of Otto Preminger's LAURA. PI falls in love with an image which gets him into a heap of trouble. Arriving at their door with a gun-shot wound, falling unconscious, he awakens finding himself bound to a bed, a victim of the crazies, at their mercy and becoming, for a while, a victim of vile torture. For instance, while the daughter pumps him full of juice, the mother is on top, *riding* him because, it seems, that the electric charge rises his member. She subsequently urinates on his face after reaching orgasmic delight. Anyway, the daughter takes her own ride, while "mommy" is asleep. She later self-induces vomit all over his face and the camera rarely moves showing the poor guy getting the liquid food-goo all over his face. It's really gross stuff. The film, though, is so well made, the acting by the women(..they're absolutely bonkers, but their unpredictable nature is so compelling and repulsive)superb and wacky, and there's plenty of S&M for those who enjoy that sort of thing.I'd say this is meant for a particular crowd. I found the film equally parts amusing, stunning, sick, and icky. The film has the daughter and mother often talking to the camera which might easily annoy those who hate this cinematic technique, although these two are so positively nuts and say some the most darnedest things, I couldn't look away. They're very beautiful, especially the mother who has ways with using her eyes to express her sheer lunacy(..while the daughter twitches, talks off to herself, and makes funny expressions with her hands), so the acts they commit can become startling. There's actual *fruit masturbation*(..I kid you not), vaginal violence with a hunting knife proportioned in a place where the male member is normally located, and other forms of sexual unpleasantness(..or pleasantness if you are into the sort of things which take place).The filmmakers are so good at creating the noir look that they could've easily made films in the 40's or art films in the 60's. But, this film ups the ante with the stuff I mentioned, and a dinner table scene(s)where the women stuff their mouths with food, shortly after barfing it back out on their plates!

tankjonah A detective (Panos Thanassoulis) arrives at an isolated villa looking for a missing girl, Laura, and is imprisoned and sexually tortured by a mother/daughter (Meredyth Herold, Michele Valley) duo who have killed Laura, among others, and buried them in their backyard.This thoroughly bizarre film contains obvious homages to the great film noir, Laura (1944), from the initial plot (a detective in love with a dead girl, whose painting is on the wall) to the beautiful black and white cinematography, to the detective's voice over narration but moves off into directions that are totally unexpected if not downright silly (for example another homage, this time to The Mummy (1932) where one of the main characters is being sodomised by her father who's dressed as the mummy).Although there's much nastiness and depravity on show (from Thanassoulis being tied down and given electro-shock treatments before Herold urinates on his face, to Valley raping him and then vomiting on his face, to the denouement where Thanassoulis kills Valley with a knife he has strapped on like a dildo), the film never really feels nasty and sick. This is obviously quite incredible and an achievement in itself. How does it pull it off? Well there's a very playful air about the proceedings (some even call this a comedy); Valley and Herold's relationship is almost child like and Valley often speaks to the camera (which is an irritation) in her sweet, pleasant voice discussing what has happened. The whole situation is like a game, albeit fetishistic and depraved games, which, in spite of the fact that we know they're killers, doesn't create any real sense of danger or dread. Interestingly Thanassoulis never really speaks to the ladies, they speak predominantly in English and a little French whilst all we hear from him is the voice over (another common noir technique that the films employs), which is in Greek. Is he consigned to a dreadful fate or does he also not really feel in any real danger? The latter is unlikely but he never really tries to turn the tables on his captors. A truly bizarre film, well made and shot, with excellent and appropriate music in the style of 40s noir. Obviously not for all tastes but certainly worth a look for viewers of challenging and offbeat cinema.