September 12, 2009

The Tourist

Andrey Iskanov Stirs Up The Controversy Once Again

Andrey Iskanov, the director of "Philosophy of a Knife" is back with a vengeance! Prepare yourself for some cannibalism, necrophilia, head smashing, face peeling and head exploding gore with a creative, stylized sci-fi twist!

Andrey's latest life scarring epic "The Tourist" the Tourist is a very artistic and poetic film with some great special effects. It has the coolest and most gruesome ending credits sequence that I have ever seen! (No animals were really harmed, Andrey is an animal lover). A lot of time and hard work was put into all of the editing and color tinting throughout. The cuts are very impressive and really add to the face pacing of the film. The drug sequences are done in a similar style to Requiem for a Dream. The narration is insightful and thought-provoking. This is a very trippy and surreal movie that will fuck with your head in many different ways.

The film's lead character Alex, contemplates suicide after his girlfriend Lucy leaves him for another man named Victor (played by director Andrey Iskanov). To escape, Alex turns to a drug dealer called The Alchemist who gives him a syringe full of hallucinogens. Alex is then transported to an alternate reality similar to "Begotten", where a mysterious woman leads him into the unknown. Suddenly, three men appear and chase Alex through the streets, doing acrobatics, running up walls and flipping and twisting over buildings. Alex grabs one of the men and smashes his head into mush with a rock. The chase continues and rest of the men get ran over by a train.

The mysterious woman tells Alex to kill The Alchemist so they can both be free. Alex attempts to kill her instead but she fights back. Alex slices her with a razor, slits her throat and stabs her multiple times in the bathtub. The drugs that he injected into himself have now created something inside of him known as "The Tourist", a creature that moves from host to host with murderous intentions. Slugs and tentacles start ripping out from inside of Alex and rape Victor's girlfriend Maria. As Alex tries to escape from this, Victor runs over Alex with his truck, backing over him several times until Alex's head is ripped apart beneath his tires.

After hearing Victor's murderous confession, the now possessed Lucy gouges out Victor's eyeballs and brutally beats his face in with an oxygen tank. She then transforms into a black demon and smashes Victor's head through a glass window. She ties Victor to a chair and graphically snips his face apart with scissors and as he is dying, he becomes part of Alex's alternate reality.

In this reality Alex enters Victor's home and shoots Victor's wife in the head with a shotgun, he shoots Victor and his daughter in their stomachs. Then he shoots the older girl through the mouth and kills her. Victor and Alex have a bloody shootout, Victor dies and Alex gets hit in the neck. After the brutal family massacre, Alex decides to perform some graphic necrophilia on Maria's gory, sliced up, disemboweled corpse, using his knife to cut out and eat the bloody insides of her vagina.

Roll credits.

Thanks for the nightmares Andrey.

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