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Codex Atanicus
Codex Atanicus is a three story anthology by Spanish director Carlos Atanes. Before watching the movie I never heard of the guy, but the introduction video on the DVD by one of his regular actresses Arantxa Peņa made me realize that I'm in for a hell of a ride. Experimental, bizarre, sick, strange - these are some of the words that describe the stories contained in Codex Atanicus. The anthology is opened by a 20 minute short from 1995 called Metaminds & Metabodies. I am really not into this kind of experimental videos, but I will try to summarize. It opens with a girl singing in the club. Everything looks ultra underground and the girl is connected with some wires to the walls. Strange people are watching her...
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Movie Review: Chaos

Story
Angelica and Emily go out to the middle of nowhere to have a good time at a rave but don't have any Ecstacy to have any fun with, so they approach the feeble minded Swan who takes the girls back to a house where his convict father and his partners in crime are waiting to have a little fun of their own.

Comments
Would you believe that the name of this movie, Chaos, is also the name of the sickest guy in the movie? Well I guess I wasn't paying much attention until half way into the movie because I didn't know until then.

Chaos starts out with two guys pulling over to the side of the road to pick up a ratty looking woman named Daisy, who seems to need a lift. The guys get a little frisky with her and try to carry her off when two other guys jump out and beat the ever loving shit out of them, trash their car and rob them, those two guys being a guy named Frankie and our leading freako himself, Chaos. After that scene we jump to Angela's car while she's listening to some terrible rapish music on her way to her friend Emily's house to pick her up for a rave they are planning on hitting. Well I guess she didn't want to seem too ghetto so she puts on some industrial metal on the way to the rave which they arrive at a little early, or just at the worst rave in the world being that theres only like a dozen people there in the middle of the woods doing a bit of nothing. Anyways the girls decide they want to have a little fun so they trot off to find some Ecstacy and come across this stoned looking young shaggy haired dude Swan and after making fun of his name, he offers to take them to get some drugs if they follow him to the "house where they are keeping it". Well as feeble minded teenage girls do they follow him only to find that the house he was talking about doesn't have any drugs at all. Instead they come in to find that they've been betrayed by Swan, who's father Chaos is waiting inside for a little fun. So they tie the girls up and bring them to the middle of nowhere within the middle of nowhere, if that's even possible, and start to have a little screaming match with the girls.

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Moments later the girls break free and run off, only to seperate and go their own ways. The first to get caught is Angelica, the hot blonde, and after a little stabbing *edited, which sucks* Chaos has a little necrophelia fun with her dead body, followed by Frankie. Damn peer pressure. Now during this time we go back and fourth to Emily's house who's parents are so worried about her that they overact, terribly. So they call the cops to check out the scene, which they do, then come back saying that the kids are too far out to check on them, which real cops would never do. Anyways back at the fun hut in the middle of nowhere Emily gets caught and what happens to her is just jacked up. Then back again to her parents who decide they are going to take matters in their on hands to find their daughter so they go to the scene of the rave, which apparently never happened, to find that she left her cellphone and that her best friend somehow got herself killed. Oh the irony. Now even more ironic is that the parents go back home to call the cops when who comes to their door claming that he's having car problems but Mr Chaos himself, and his pals.

What happens next is just a big bundle of "holy shit". I found myself double taking a few of the scenes towards the end, to me it just didn't settle.

In all this movie was pretty cool but it edited out the best parts which I felt could have saved it from the bashing it got from horror fanatics, yet again the MPAA fuck up a fairly decent flick. Aside from that I think the parents pushed too much of an After School Special vibe pushing racism in too much being that they were mixed raced and all.

Definately not the most brutal movie ever made as claimed but not too bad of a flick, just not as great as it could be.

Final Comments
Kevin Gage did a great role as Chaos, I think he's been pretty good in most movies he has been in in the past but it didn't save this flick, I think a little more brutality and an NC-17 rating would have pushed the bar on the expectations made for this film. Overall I'm on the fence with this flick, rent it if you want to, tell me what you think, otherwise I don't see myself paying full price for it.

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Chaos

ALTERNATIVE TITLE: The House in the Middle of Nowhere
MOVIE YEAR: 2005
DIRECTOR: David DeFalco
WRITING CREDITS: David DeFalco
GENRE: Horror, Thriller
CAST: Kevin Gage, Sage Stallone, Kelly K.C. Quann
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 73 min

RATING: 7/10

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