The third scariest thing about A Serbian Film is that it clearly cost quite a lot of money, money that someone agreed to spend presumably having read a script. This is money they will never see back, having made a movie that has to be unreleaseable in 99% of territories.
The forth scariest thing about A Serbian Film is how well directed it is.
The firth scariest thing about A Serbian Film is how well acted it is. Generally across the board, very, very talented people were involved in making this. People who must have read the script when they signed on. It is wonderfully acted, shot, directed, production designed, scored and edited.
The sixth scariest thing about A Serbian Movie is that it basically manages to create a new genre, a genre that revels in sexual violence like nothing ever put on screen. The film seems to think it it’s saying something, and I think it probably really is, even perhaps going as far as to comment on the very nature of cinema. And it is certainly a brave film. Very, very brave.
But the MOST offensive thing about A Serbian Film is how good it is. I am shocked that people would make, be in, finance or watch a movie like this. There will undoubtedly be fucked up people who will watch this film and get off on it. People whose hideous fantasies will be spurred on. It is shot in a titillating and pornographic way, that doesn’t seem to judge its characters in any negative way.
A Serbian Film shocked me and made me ashamed to be a human being. It is a new low point in the history of cinema. What an achievement. This is brave, audacious and brilliant filmmaking. And I’m not sure what I think of it. I loved it and I hated it and I wish it didn’t exist.
-Adam Mason
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