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I found this review

posted 10 years ago by svalinanikola
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This review for V/H/S Viral was made 3 days ago and it has something about Gorgeous Vortex as well: http://whysoblu.com/vhs-viral-blu-ray-review/

After you think the film has ended, you’re treated to “Gorgeous Vortex”. This one is super arthouse and really the first in any of the V/H/S films to take this direction. Its beautifully shot and edited, and really is one to let the viewer sort of take their own from it. If you were into something like Under The Skin last year, then you really should have no trouble in enjoying this. From a technical standpoint its rather impressive, and is really fun to look at.

Find it weird how it doesn't say anything about what is happening in Gorgeous Vortex while others got short story descriptions.

[–] miguelcardoso36 10 years ago

Nice find Svali! :)

I think Gorgeous Vortex will be very, very polarizing. Some will love it to death and others will hate it. I had already found an interview that GV would be something very "experimental" and "out-of-the-box", and now I can't wait to see this!

Thank you for posting this!

EDIT:

The first had five shorts, the sequel four and on the surface here it appears to be just three. However, after the credits finished rolling, and hidden almost easter egg like, in its own title set even, is our fourth found footage wonder.

In case you are forgotten, there's a point in the end credits where the film "pauses" and the tape rewinds to cue in ROOM8's score. It would be brilliant if it paused and actually fast-forwarded the credits right to Gorgeous Vortex's title screen, now that'd be a nice laugh :D

EDIT 2:

After a quick Google stalk, I found out this website which contains a never-before-shown still of GV: http://legacy.de/mm-news/item/32002-ofdb-filmworks-vorschau-2015

Looks cool!

[–] svalinanikola 10 years ago

I see, I took what I found with a grain of salt because they didn't say anything about Gorgeous Vortex story wise which was a little strange.

Oh well, since so little time is left for it to be released I'll just wait and see it. I spent too much time on this little mistery haha.

[–] nrkist2424 10 years ago

Good find Svalina. The review is accurate of the segments, though slices a little more favorable than I would. I'm still a little confused though. Are we to understand GV is not found footage?

[–] svalinanikola 10 years ago

I don't see why it wouldn't be, the review would mention something obvious like that, it just seems to be some weird arthouse project, that's all we know.

So, I guess it was removed because it clashed with the tone of other segments? Nah, that doesn't sound right either.

[–] miguelcardoso36 10 years ago

I'll have to check out Under the Skin to get my body ready.

[–] nrkist2424 10 years ago

Yes, take your clothes off, melt a man metaphorically into your sexual depths...but not metaphorically...or something...

[–] miguelcardoso36 10 years ago

That's effed up.

[–] miguelcardoso36 10 years ago

That's nasty.

[–] svalinanikola 10 years ago

That's what happens in Under the Skin 

[–] nrkist2424 10 years ago

Wait...you know what happens in Under the Skin?!

[–] svalinanikola 10 years ago

Sure

This one alien chick replaces the previous alien chick who's dead with the help of her motorcycle friend, she lures people so they can have their skin and meat. She has a change of heart after an encounter with a deformed man, tries to be more human, but dies because of a rapist.

The end.

[–] nrkist2424 10 years ago

Despite how surprisingly accurate and pithy that is...it makes me tear up and giggle uncontrollably every time I read that spoiler.

[–] miguelcardoso36 10 years ago

RED AT YOUR OWN RISK:

Todd Lincoln’s ‘Gorgeous Vortex’ (HD, 17 Mins.) - This extra isn’t found anywhere on the menus, but is rather added at the end of the final credits for the movie. There is no dialogue to the film, but follows a woman in a dreamlike or nightmare type of state as she battles a hideous monster, is raped by masked men, all while dressed in next to nothing. The film is beautiful and not an action piece at all, no matter how it might sound. It’s a head scratcher for sure, but worth watching.

[–] svalinanikola 10 years ago

It sounds interesting, I just hope it's not silly like some other segments in Viral and that it takes itself more seriously.

I'll remain skeptical until I check it out.

[–] miguelcardoso36 10 years ago

[quote]Cut from the main feature is Todd Lincoln's (The Apparition) Gorgeous Vortex, the most stylish and creepy of all the material. The 16-minute, dialogue-free short plays after the film concludes on the Blu-ray. I can see why this was cut from V/H/S: Viral. It's way too avant-garde to fit amid this other nonsense. I'm not sure I understood what was going on - the synopsis claims a secretive organization is tracking a serial killer - but a gorgeous woman (Jayden Robison) has startling visions of hooded figures and imagines herself as the victim in gruesome murders. There's also birthday cake and a killer bird. If only the real movie was this crazy[\quote]

[–] svalinanikola 10 years ago

I wonder what is up with that synopsis as well, what's described there doesn't sound like what's written in the snyopsis at all.

[–] pappaus 10 years ago

This is why the U.S. is falling behind in the intelligence game - The C.I.A. and our other secretive organizations refuse to recognize the power of birthday cakes and killer birds in its day to day operations!!!