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![]() ![]() Both of these films hail from Serbia and have very similar plots about pornographic actors who are drawn into the world of extremes, eventually including snuff filmmaking.Ī Serbian Film was considered so extreme that it was cut or outrightly banned in fairly much every country it has screened. The surprise then came a couple of years later when Eastern Europe started to get into the act and pushed things even further than Hostel did first with Life and Death of Porno Gang (2009), followed by A Serbian Film here. You suspect that most of these films took their ideas from media reports of rampant lawlessness and human trafficking going on in the former republics of the Soviet Union, as well as stories of these countries being used as so-called Black Sites by the Bush Government for the torture of prisoners because they fall outside the province of the UN human rights charter. We saw similar ideas turn up in films like 13 Tzameti (2005), Severance (2006) and I Spit on Your Grave 2 (2013). Chiefly there was Hostel (2005) and it identification of Slovakia as a lawless country where tourists were abducted and killed in a torture-for-profit operation. The mid-00s saw interest swing to Eastern Europe as a horror venue.
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