Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

GrimPrecise I'll tell you why so serious

Aedonerre I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

Leoni Haney Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

westsideschl I too was torn between giving an eight and one star rating so somewhere in-between. Yes, the visuals are excessive, i.e. forcing people to eat fecal stuff (actually chocolate - phew); physical torture; full nudity (male & female); some sex including a bit out of the mainstream, but camera angles were such that nothing was shown (left to imagination, etc.). There actually was a thematic point to the film's visceral story, illustrated by the following comments: We see the relationship of power using sex to treat others like a commodity. The anarchy of power can be seen in fascism. Power can do what it wants, and what it wants is completely arbitrary. It is dictated by its eccentric needs which elude common logic. Power people are enamored with their own identity. For a film over 40 years old it strangely has some current applicability, i.e. I kept being reminded of a present day U.S. political leader.

kksajith This movie is a sadistic and disgusting excuse for art. This is just darker version of pornography. Numerous countries banning this movie is understandable. Nothing in this movie conveys any message. No lesson to be learned from this piece of ridiculous excuse for a movie. This is just the filmmakers quest for quenching their sexual and sadistic desires. This is one of the movies nobody should ever watch. Skip this if you love movies.

kaameshsingam I don't know why I picked this movie. First I found Marquis Sade in the internet, and then his novel 120 days of Sodom. Intrigued by the name Sadism, I wondered what the novel really consisted of. I read the summary in Wikipedia. Damn! Then I found out that someone made a movie out of it. Then I found this. Just out of curiosity, I read a review of this film in IMDb: He (she?) gave a score of 7 or 8 and wrote that this movie depicted the dark side of humanity and that it was sick. An art film, it was supposed to be. Fine, then! I finally brought myself to watch it. (By the way, I had happened to find that Simone de Beauvoir wrote an essay on this book: Must we burn Sade? In the essay, she had defended Sade, I think. This had intrigued my curiosity further.) I started watching the movie. Halfway through the movie, I regretted my decision to watch it, but I finished the movie all the same. Because I wanted to know the dark side of humanity; and I did know it through someone's so-called art. All hail my curiosity. Damn! The movie was disgusting and repugnant. But, hey, the director succeeded in his job. He wanted to disgust us and he succeeded. I should like to read Sade's book, if I ever get the time and chance. Wait. Am I praising the movie or condemning it? I don't know! I don't know how to respond to this movie! I don't know if 1 star out of 10 is the right score. If you want to watch the movie, do so at your peril!

jake-law123 Despite my rating, this is actually a well made film. It has high production values, decent acting, stunning sets, and great sound. In the technical aspects it is well directed. Regardless, it was one of the most tormenting films I've ever seen. It was such a struggle to get through. I was checking how much longer I had left like seventeen times a minute, because I just couldn't take it.This is a film that's told smart, executed well, but the portrayal itself is horrible. Long story short, fascism is wrong, end of story. But like the Purge, it's not enough to just say it, we gotta go through a whole mess of stuff to show you why it is. Basically fascists sexually torture nine boys and nine girls for four months in a mansion. And we're talking urinating in mouths, eating poop, three way intercourse, ejaculating on each other etc. The whole film is literally just scene after scene of that. It's nonstop. All of that, as we constantly are forced to endure stories about people going through the same stuff, but enjoying it. This film loves to emphasize each character's feelings on each scene. When they eat poop, the film describes in detail everybody's experiences with eating poop, and why they are fine with it. In a strange sense, it's well told and has some interesting insight, but that does not make it any easier to watch.Honestly though, the film as a whole is kind of boring. It really is just a matter of how shocking can we be. When it's not being depraved, it's just people in a room telling stories. There's really not much else to it.The problem with the film is that since it's on its own sick mindset, we as an audience aren't really on the same page, so we're just seeing random acts of violence, and not really anything else. There's no clear picture or goal the film projects, just that. David Lynch films do the same thing, but at least he gives us enough symbolism to let us know what to extract from the film. This one is just showing us that these people get off on this stuff, and that's it.One thing I found interesting was how the perspective is of the fascists themselves instead of the victims. Instead of being a standard psychological thriller about escaping, it's simply just these fascist's sick perversions and their opinions on it. They're the main characters, and they're the ones we follow. I thought that was rather interesting.At the end of the day, this is not one of the worst movies I've ever seen, but it's one of the hardest films I've ever had to sit through. It's pretty easy to hate this film. I don't hate it, but I would never want to watch this again, or would never recommend it to anybody ever. It's a well told film with an interesting insight, but it's way too hard to sit through and it's a one note theme that they just milk for an hour and 56 minutes.