Verotika

You should ask yourself three questions before watching Glenn Danzig's Verotika. First of all, do you like gothic horror stories? Secondly, are you fascinated by slasher flicks with guts and gore? Thirdly and lastly, do you appreciate softcore *? If your answers to all these questions are affirmative, then you could possibly like this movie despite its obvious weaknesses. If only some of your answers are affirmative, then you might not appreciate it but perhaps still find some elements intriguing. If all your answers are negative, then you would loathe the film and should avoid it altogether. To those who haven't heard about this film yet, Verotika is based upon a line of comic books published by musician, producer, singer and songwriter Glenn Danzig who has always had a weakness for the aforementioned genres. The movie tells three unrelated tales of about thirty minutes that are briefly introduced by a host. ''The Albino Spider of Dajette'' tells the story of a prostitute who is haunted by a murderous monster wreaking havoc around her whenever she falls asleep. ''Change of Face'' is the tale of a mysterious * who murders people to collect their faces. ''Drukija, Contessa of Blood'' introduces the viewers to a gruesome countess who kidnaps virgin women and bathes in their blood to achieve eternal youth and sexual arousal. On the positive side, the three tales have a constantly sinister atmosphere. The locations such as dark back alleys, dirty strip clubs and cold dungeons have been perfectly chosen. The lighting techniques are employed fittingly. The ideas behind the tales are obviously also quite gruesome. Up next, the different tales offer lots of guts and gore. Each tale gets progressively more brutal in that regard. The first tale features a few murder scenes, the second tale shows numerous disfigured victims and the last tale includes multiple splatter effects. Lastly, all movies include softcore * elements. The first tale starts with a prostitute seducing a client. The second tale takes place in a strip club and follows the antagonist's everyday life. The third tale shows how aroused the antagonist and her servant feel about blood. This movie obviously also includes some major flaws that have been pointed out in numerous reviews. The acting performances are shallow and wooden as they are often delivered without conviction and creativity. The stories are extremely simple and become less imaginative as the film progresses. The camera work is static and almost every scene ends with unnecessary prolonged fade-outs. In the end, Verotika isn't a masterpiece. It's not an excellent movie either. It's not even a very good film. But it's a good horror film with gothic atmosphere, slasher elements and hints at soft *. Personally, I think such a movie is more interesting than overlong pretentious horror films like Midsommar that people tend to analyze, discuss and interpret to death. Verotika might be shallow and clumsy but it's entertaining and unpretentious. Glenn Danzig wanted to create this movie exactly like he did without any compromises and made one of his biggest dreams come true. In this regard, the comparisons to Tommy Wiseau's The Room are perfectly accurate. Anyone is obviously entitled to dislike such movies. Criticizing the artists behind them however is a different thing. It's certainly admirable and even inspiring when artists make their wildest dreams come true despite many challenges and even hardships. When was the last time you took a big risk to make an ambitious dream come true?

This abosoulty horrible lol. Not like Toxic Avenger good bad, but just regular garbage fire bad. That being said, get together with some friends, have a few of what ever you enjoy, sit back and have a good laugh with your friends at Glen Danzigs expense! To sum up this movie accurately if you took all the acting prowess and cinematic excellence of no budget 80s * and it jerked off on a Tales from the crypt comic written by someone with severe brain damage, this would be its extremely ugly lovechild.....

I watched this movie hoping it would be at least entertaining, but I'll gladly say it was far from that. This movie sucks in every way possible. Horrible direction, horrible script, horrible acting, horrible production. And if you do choose to watch this movie you'll ask yourself "it's supposed to be this bad, right?" Well the answer to that is no, if you watch interviews with Glenn Danzig you'll realize he wanted to make a masterpiece, but failed in every aspect. Don't waste your money on this film and save an hour and a half of your life

Bullcrap comes in many textures - Lumpy, sloppy, soggy, firm, dry, compressed pellets or in liquid form but there's none more degrading, defiling or decomposed as Danzig's Verotika, which smells to high hell. The saddest thing about this movie is that they want you to pay for the privilege to view this abysmal bullcrap. Like somebody else on here, I watched a bootleg copy and even then I want my money back as well. The acrid aftertaste this movie leaves in your mouth approximates to a virtual upchuck of disgust which surmounts to a jaw dropping climax of disappointment by film's end. It's upheaval of disappointment cascades into a river of bullcrap. The pins & needles you may experience in your brain while watching this bullcrap is more entertaining than what Danzig has dished up here. (Lookout for signs of numbness while viewing this movie.) Normally a movie can only be two-minutes in and the wheels start to fall off but this movie started with no wheels to even begin with! It's a vessel of bullcrap masquerading as entertainment. But the way it is, and from reading other's reviews, this movie almost draws on our sympathies and we'll have to pity all involved and give it favorable comment the way it's going. Come on everybody, let's all feel sorry for Danzig and this movie. Should we take pity and go easy on poor 'ole Danzig? Seriously, I'm embarrassed for all involved. You've made fools of yourselves globally. Was this your answer to Creepshow, Danzig? Well, your movie is the equivalent of handing in a term paper written on used 2-ply toilet paper and if you're the future of film then that's bullcrap.

Thank you for showing me that anything I make no matter how low budget, how weak it is! It will never be as bad as this movie! It's not even the acting that's the worst part! The directing and editing is some of the worst I've ever seen! This is trash but good trash, trash that reminds you that you have hope because anything is better then this!!!

Why? Why? Really, why?? I really don't know what the purpose of making a film like this one, but I can assure you that the result was the opposite of what was expected, because it ends up being tremendously hilarious. Do not waste your time and especially your money, believe me it is a complete garbage

The Misfits is a great band, and so is Danzig. Glenn Danzig is an icon, a legacy, a talented musician, and also the main "Verotika's" selling point for me. Sadly, after 90 minutes of considerably excruciating movie watching experience I have to conclude that Glenn doesn't know much about making movies. Tits and gore alone couldn't redeem the all-around undoubtedly objective mess that "Verotika" is. "Verotika" is littered with a variety of filmmaking errors, bad or questionable creative decisions, sub-par or just plain bad acting, awful accents, awkward editing and cinematography solutions, drab lighting, bland score & the list goes on. There are multiple scene continuity issues already in the first of the three stories, corpses with flinching eyes (and even a moving hand) and other basic mistakes. Even though distracting, those problems could be brushed off if everything else was on a decent level. It's not though, far from it. Most of the performances are stale, emotionless, the dialogue is amateur-hour and the quite often used accents are very questionable. The stories have zero depth and end up nowhere before repeating their respective shticks five times in a row - all three of them (stories) are structurally pretty much the same and equally flawed. The Framing segment eventually turns out pointless, empty and repeatitive. The production values are low, the gore doesn't impress and neither do the naked bodies. Wherever cgi or green screen is used, it can be noticed fast and easily. In the second story there are at least 10 to 15 minutes worth of striptease scenes, in theory you may not think so, but it turns into a bore fest fast. "Verotika", having no twists, turns or layers, stretches out big-time and ultimately is the exact opposite of what we call a "rewarding experience". Cinematography's hit & miss, the bad parts are either bland and uninspiring or present, once again, minor errors. Maybe it's the editing, likely both. Glenn Danzing fails in directing, writing & cinematography, so it's even more disappointing that the original score is also underwhelming. They say that "Verotika" could become a cult midnighter and is the horror equivalent to "The Room". Even though I'm a horror buff myself, I have to admit I enjoyed "The Room" more. It'd help a lot if the viewer could tell if the awfulness and hilarity of "Verotika" was intentional or not. To sum it up, it's, well, very bad, with a few laughs. My rating: 2/10.

It went: 'Mother... Tell your children not to watch my film'.

It's just an absolute masterpiece. I don't understand the bad ratings. It's got everything you could ever want in a movie, and more.

I'm a huge Danzig fan. His era of The Misfits is one of my favorite bands of all time. I went to two of their reunion shows: Madison Square Garden and Wells Fargo Center. Glenn is a very talented musician and I was interested in what's to come of his directorial debut based off his series of comics. After all the negative reviews and people comparing it to "The Room", I was hoping for it to be entertainingly bad...and it wasn't even that. i can't even say it's so bad it's good like the room sure there's unintentionally funny moments but i did not enjoy watching this movie. i was bored and uninterested the entire runtime. by the second story, i nearly fell asleep. the writing is awful, the acting from everyone is atrocious, the CGI used especially in the spider scenes looks like a ps1 game, not even the gorier parts of this movie caught my interest. they were so boring just like this movie. hopefully Glenn improves as a director cause if his next movie is anything like this count me out. when i heard Glenn got directing tips from rob zombie i did get worried. i'm a big rob zombie fan but his movies don't do much for me aside from devil's rejects. the only positive to this movie for me is the soundtrack. i got to hear eyes ripping fire which is a badass song. in conclusion, verotika is one of the worst horror anthology movies I've sat through. it's poorly written, acted, and is a boring slog to get through. i wanted to like this movie but i was left disappointed. as awful as the room is at least it's memorable. verotika was very forgettable, boring, poorly acted, written, directed and unintentionally hilarious in all the wrong ways.