Vic Serotonin’s Film Reviews

4 Films have been rated or reviewed by Vic Serotonin.

Spring Breakers (2012): This is pure sensation, a liquid cinema that explodes the entire plane of representation. Post–cinematic affect captured in instagram freeze–frame and played back ceaselessly, its colours bleeding neon, like so many skittles. \"Spring Break Forever.\"; DVD $14.95
Predator 2 (1990): The predator goes rasta in sweltering downtown LA. Terrible sound mixing, ironic, given its second life as sample fodder for early \'90s jungle/dnb producers. The final scene is particularly iconic, and worth the uneven journey which precedes it.
Youth of the Beast (Yaju no seishun) (1963): More mandatory b–movie wickedness from Suzuki. YotB features some wonderfully experimental camera work, and like Tokyo Drifter, the 60s pop colourings further heighten the stylized action sequences.
Branded to Kill (Koroshi no rakuin) (1967): A wicked work of deconstruction. Plot is relegated to secondary status, & the action is so stylized that it is reduced to the level of abstraction. BtK\'s ratcheting up of genre tropes, plot twists, & surreal set pieces make it the apogee of the b–movie