Michael Hanake meets the Blair Witch Project in Kim Gok's Exhausted, a vicious kick in the pants to everyone in the audience, all in the name of "style." A man meets a mute woman, and as any reasonable person would do in such a situation, makes her his prostitute. But the pimping is the least of our problems. As we get exhausted by the grainy faux-16mm camerawork, the film gets increasingly deranged. The closest thing we get to a sympathetic character is the pimp, simply because he's got too much self-respect to fuck a mute whore. Everyone else is either a gory mess, or a gory mess in disguise. Even the prostitute, which even a thug like Lars von Trier would make likeable, comes off as a delirious scary woman whose shrieks strike like blows to the jugular.
Kim Gok has seemingly abandoned the Marxist critiques of his short films, going instead for mindless brutality which culminates in an endless bloody freak-show involving, among other things, a pair of scissors going where pairs of scissors should not go. In the middle of the bloodbath, we get an extended long take of the beaten prostitute's near-dead face, but it does not elicit sympathy or pity. In fact, images of the victim only make us shy away in shock. (Indeed, the extended sequence led to continuous walk-outs during the Pusan screening.) The long take invites us to stare, but it assumes we're as sadistic as the victimizer (and the film) is. Meanwhile the sound-effects (mostly a rumbling bassline that shakes the theater) pulsates with pure wickedness. With Hanake, shock creates reflection, which asks that we be critical. Here, we only want to escape. I suppose Exhausted has some virtues; the shots of drilling machines and factories provide a mesmerizing phallic backdrop to the pimp and prostitute's pursuits. But everything else hurts too much. At least Kim Ki-duk lets us breathe. Exhausted makes Bad Guy look like Lady and the Tramp. (asiaarts.ucla.edu)
没有当初看一二部那种醍醐灌顶的感觉了，一二个故事可以直接跳过，喜欢第三个故事的朋友推荐去看《弗兰肯斯坦的军队》
导演们脑子有大洞，电影里一帮人脑子有大病，我想用傻逼来形容应该不失贴切
就是看看新鲜罢了...好在觉得没有浪费时间...
整體來說，機器人與人融合這個故事算是幾個故事中觀賞性和隱喻性平衡度最好的一個。
可以说是血腥录像带，太血腥残暴了，太惨了，反胃，不过这样的片子吧伪记录片的感觉做的还是很好的，特别是变态博士改造人，血腥的杀戮，可悲的人体。
几个故事都不错，有创意又cult，尤其机械姬那段，保持了系列一贯的水平
这个有点搞笑的，里面的特效还可以，倒是肢体满天飞，被肢解的很多地方血腥，但是能够看出来特效处理的不错，还是挺到位的。剧情不重要，这种基本上都是爽。
老鼠人和棺材人恐怖氛围还蛮到位💋
雖然演技尷尬但是我好喜歡這個系列。粗糙硬核僞記録都市傳說
看完恐怖片系列87：致命录像带94.
种草了殡仪馆的一首歌。系列喜好度：4＞1＞2＞3
這系列就是這樣，僅止於有趣，但都說不上好看。
不是说是cult片就能得高分，各种混炖且不知所云真的让人一头雾水，我也算一口气把1234看完了，风格还是挺统一的——统一的不知所云。确实不明白到底要表达个什么东西，还是说只是为了拍而拍，为了好耍、血腥、另类而拍，原谅我欣赏无能～
太烂了 前两个故事还行 后面都不知道在讲啥
基本都是怪异秀，鼠人，机器人，丧尸，吸血鬼什么的，只是用另一种不同的方式呈现，重塑的点子，一次两次还好，多了就有点油腻了
只看了第一个，对这种劣画质又晃个不停的实在是不感冒
粉丝加一星吧，第三个最好但与全片风格格格不入，第四个画面复古感最棒但也是最烂的
为了续集而续集，几个故事之前更没有前几部的贯穿性，越往后越无聊，倦了，累了。
区别于录像带系列的完整叙事的分段式故事。开头的神秘编号和挖眼珠营造了诡异气氛，下水道硫酸鼠人＋守灵女孩遇诈尸＋疯博士人机实验＋反动派生物见光死炸弹＋呼应开头的“看录像必死”诅咒。分段叙事前三个故事都还不错，气氛＋叙事到位，吸血鬼炸弹那个设定没看懂。整体属于完成不错的B级片
喜欢storm drain 很喜欢the subject 尽管是最跑题的一个故事 滤镜真的带感
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