Films with a dark and gritty fetish aesthetic

[Felicia Gaggins]

@13
Have you seen Chained with Vincent D'Onofrio & Eamon Farren?

[13]

No I haven't, but I'll make sure to read up on it.

[THE RITA HN]

Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter (1974)

I have a framed poster above my bed.

[13]

There's quite af few designs out there. Which one do you have?

[THE RITA HN]

this one.  invested in a nice frame for it and everything.  pretty hard to beat that image in any genre/capacity.  i have a framed helltrain / monica swinn image lobby card right beside it.

[Strömkarlen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Xucn8MBH8

Wir Kinder Vom Bahnhof Zoo is pretty gritty...

491 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmlq64wyvwA Waiting for a copy and the dog fuck scene is cute but any film that can provoke the forming of a new party is great by me. A right wing christian values party was formed in response to the film being released in sixties.

[WATERPOWER]

The Prodigal Son
Short Dutch horror film about a young man who earns his money as a male prostitute. A middle-aged man takes him home and ties him to a bed. Too late, the young man realises that he has ended up amid a crazy family. The Prodigal Son was screened at the international genre festivals of Málaga and San Sebastián, where it won prizes for best short film.

http://www.filmfestival.nl/profs_en/films/the-prodigal-son

[THE RITA HN]

VICTIMS OF VICE (1978 Dir. Jacques Scandelari)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167806/

[Jnz]

Anyone know what the film is that's shown accompanying this Pogrom set from around 11 mins 35 seconds?: http://youtu.be/Gc3p_8MZtgc?t=11m33s

Alicia (1994) Director: Jaume Balagueró
You can find it on Youtube. It's a short film.

[bile]

Heart of Midnight1988

Although not necessarily as "gritty" as other films mentioned in this thread, I believe it may strike a chord with some of you willing to give it a look. Focuses on a young woman (whom suffers from psychotic episodes) that inherits a nightclub from her deceased Uncle Fletcher. As the movie unfolds she begins to learn more about her late uncle and what truly happened within the establishment she now owns. She is living on the second floor and discovers a variety of rooms all with different fetishist themes. Through a mix of flashbacks/breaks in the plot, she discovers her own abuse at the hands of Fletcher during her childhood and makes sense of the clubs disturbing past...that it was used for child trafficking, abduction of women, murder, etc. Pretty unsettling watch...very bleak throughout.

[tiny_tove]

Carnival of souls. Different from anything filmed until then.
Despite the often over-the-top acting, it has a unique atmosphere.

[cr]

Yeah, Carnival of Souls is really good!
Recently watched 'Salon Kitty', directed by Tinto Brass. And 'Necrophile Passion' by Tom Heidenberg. Maybe these are fitting quite well into this thread.

[13]

Videodrome and Cronenberg's other early films all fit the bill in some way or another. Speaking of which Rabid is finally coming out on Blu on the 16th: http://www.arrowfilms.co.uk/about-us/

[13]

I don't think Shozin Fukui's Rubber's Lover has been mentioned, but now it has.

[Jack]

Films with a Dark and Gritty Fetish Aesthetic....

Shinya Tsukamoto's A SNAKE OF JUNE is exactly what you're looking for.

Made in 2002 by the man who brought you Tetsuo.

Blue tinted monochrome. Repression. Voyeurism. Strange sexual obsessions.

"Rinku is a suicide-prevention counselor, living with her husband Shigehiko. He's older than she, scrubbing things constantly, sexually indifferent. They sleep apart. During Tokyo's rainy season, Iguchi, a photographer Rinku has counseled by phone, sends her pictures he has taken through her skylight: she's wearing a short skirt, masturbating. He offers her the negatives if she'll follow his instructions. She's humiliated and agrees. He tells her he's only giving her license to express her inner desires. He sends her into the night to walk on the wild side. Then, she asks a favor of him, and soon her husband receives phone calls and photographs. Where will this triangle lead?" - from imdb.