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For this Wednesday Super Slop Night, first up is Helter Skelter (2012), a surreal horror-drama-comedy-satire based on the manga of the same name. It follows a supermodel who has risen all the way to the top of the industry by relentlessly perfecting every aspect of herself via plastic surgery; gradually, the seams start to crack, and her body begins to decay, and everything starts going sideways from there. This is the best-known and best-regarded work to date of director Mika Ninagawa, who specializes in feminist-themed manga adaptations. Great reviews for this, so let’s check it out.

Next is Hardcore Henry (2015), a cult film deliberately crafted as a live-action video game, taking place entirely from the point-of-view of a superpowered cyborg. It follows his seemingly endless gunfights against an army of bad guys who all want him dead as he searches through Moscow to rescue his kidnapped wife. Imagine watching someone else play a first-person shooter, and you pretty much have this movie. Director is Ilya Naishuller, who also made the Bob Odenkirk vehicle Nobody (2021), which we have not yet watched.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Blorptube, right here:

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Be there, comrades!

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CWs for Helter Skelter:

  • Sexual assault: people are coerced into sex, and forced to watch.
  • Someone is physically restrained.
  • Objectification of female characters.
  • Cutting of flesh.
  • Someone struggles to breathe.
  • Body horror.
  • Unconsciousness.
  • Eye mutilation.
  • Abduction of infant.
  • Drug overdose.
  • Cheating.
  • Shower scene.
  • Vomiting.
  • Spitting.
  • Audio gore.
  • Copaganda.
  • Needles.
  • Hospital scene.
  • Mental illness.
  • Self-harm.
  • Violent mentally-ill person.
  • Suicide attempt.
  • Unstable reality.
  • Meltdown.
  • Anxiety attacks.
  • Suicidal ideation.
  • Body dysmorphia.
  • Eating disorder.
  • Suicide.
  • Shaky cam.
  • Profanity.
  • Flashing lights.
  • Ableism.
  • Fat jokes.
  • Hate speech.
  • Age- gap romance.
  • Nudity.
  • Sex.
  • Chronic illness.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Sad ending.

CWs for Hardcore Henry:

  • Stalking.
  • Shaky cam.
  • Gun violence.
  • Domestic violence.
  • Gaslighting.
  • Drug use.
  • Drug addiction.
  • Sexual assault: some bad guys are about to r*pe a woman, but Henry kills them.
  • Cutting of flesh.
  • Throat mutilation.
  • Someone is burned alive.
  • Amputation.
  • Squashed head.
  • Genital trauma.
  • Broken bones.
  • Tooth damage.
  • Finger mutilation.
  • Torture.
  • Death by falling.
  • Eye mutilation.
  • Blood and gore.
  • Destruction of child’s toy.
  • Kidnapping.
  • Jump scares.
  • Spitting.
  • Audio gore.
  • Needles.
  • Hospital scene.
  • Self-harm.
  • Violent mentally-ill person.
  • Shaky cam.
  • Flashing lights.
  • Homophobic slurs.
  • Ableism.
  • Nudity.
  • Sex.
  • Male character ridiculed for crying.
  • Car crash.
  • Someone is hit by a car.
  • Corpses.

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