Unearthed Films puts out the definitive edition for A Serbian Film, fully restored and uncensored with a masterful new color grading, plentiful new extras, and optional subtitles. The subtitles play outside the widescreen scope presentation. Optional English subtitles play in a yellow font. The new surround mix isn’t dynamite but does expand the front soundstage with a little more depth. Only a smattering of ambient presence leaks out in the surround mix. The movie is cleanly recorded with clear, distinct dialogue. The sparse, limited sound design from the original 2.0 PCM stereo mix carries over to the 5.1 DTS-HD MA surround track. Made in the Serbian language with no foreign dialogue, A Serbian Film isn’t a sonic showcase. Unearthed Films’ new transfer is now the definitive presentation for A Serbian Film. The digital transfer holds up well and looks even better with the new grading pulling out more vitality. The fully uncensored and unrated cut runs 103 minutes with a superior AVC encode on a BD-50. The color palette was always drab and overly yellow, but Unearthed Films brings the movie a completely new digital grading that looks ten times better than the original BD. Digital colorists have immensely refined their craft over the past ten years. The earlier Blu-ray from Invincible Pictures, besides having a few cuts despite its unrated claims, arrived with a crude and unsatisfactory color grading firmly of its time. A Serbian Film is slickly shot with top-notch depth, only adding to the unnerving Mise en scène.
Everything, and I mean everything, is up on the screen in exacting detail and clarity. It’s a psychologically grueling experience that terrifies with its realism.įilmed with the RED ONE digital camera back in 2010, A Serbian Film always had the raw definition and detail of immaculate video. A Serbian Film pulls off far more disturbing tricks. Don’t watch A Serbian Film expecting the merely gross but rather predictable gore of a Hostel. Some believe the cut version may be more disturbing, since it leaves the absolute worst imagery up to the human imagination. This edition restores everything Srdjan Spasojevic first intended for his film. Back when the movie was first released in 2010, a slightly cut version that made a couple of the most notorious scenes more implicit than explicit was put out on home video. Unearthed Films has brought the fully uncut director’s version to Blu-ray for the first time. Made like a twisted fever dream, viewers that make it all the way through are left emotionally spent and wondering. The movie’s denouement is sickening, proceeding naturally from everything leading up to its forceful climax. It transgresses conventional prohibitions on violence and sex norms that most of us take for granted in cinema. Milos is soon entrapped in a hellish ordeal of cruelty that goes far beyond the boundaries of ordinary pornography. The man has no idea what he is getting into with Vukmir. Promised a payday that would solve his family’s monetary problems for good, Milos accepts. Known as a legendary porn performer, financial problems force Milos to consider a wildly lucrative offer to get back into the business by the mysterious Vukmir. Milos is a retired porn star in Serbia, living a mostly happy family life with Maria and his young son Petar. If this sounds like it will be too much for you, watch anything else and don’t feel guilty for avoiding A Serbian Film. Even the most desensitized adults will have jarring reactions, which makes it more powerful than the usual gorefests and slashers that comprise most exploitation. There’s a scene with a newborn child that will turn your stomach. If you don’t feel dirty after watching A Serbian Film in its fully uncut form, get helpĬandidly, the movie’s most infamous scenes are without a doubt revolting and immorally disgusting on multiple levels.
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