Dopo l'esordio alla regia con American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore (link to review), Stephen Biro (leader of the extreme label Unearthed Films), expertly writes and directs his second feature film viz. American Guinea Pig: The Song of Solomon, portando sullo schermo un'incredibile versione gore estrema sull'esorcismo.
American Guinea Pig: The Song of Solomon made its European premiere today, December 2, along with American Guinea Pig: Sacrifice, during the final evening of the The Optical Theatre Film Festival. The two films were presented by Italian screenwriter Antonio Tentori.
Outside the standards of the filmography belonging to the exorcism strand, American Guinea Pig: The Song of Solomon is a seductive heap of horrors and impiety, a demonic shell in which religion, faith and goodness are bent by evil with terrifying consequences.
Always respecting the extreme style of the saga, The Song of Solomon shows off truculent and magnificent practical effects, crafted by the expert hands of Marcus Koch (effects designer and director of the second installment of the saga i.e. American Guinea Pig: Bloodshock) and Jerami Cruise.
Lo spettacolo splatter/gore inizia con un autosgozzamento durante una preghiera a Dio per poi proseguire in bagni di sangue con autolesionismi e lesioni di ogni genere (estrazioni dei bulbi oculari, viscere rigurgitate, arti che si spezzano, polsi tagliati...) fino ad arrivare ad un esasperato martoriamento della carne.
L'attrice e regista canadese Jessica Cameron dà la voce e il corpo alla posseduta regalando al pubblico una valida performance che la incornicia in un costante e torbido stato alterato dalla possessione. Generatrice di discordia e propagatrice di conflitti, questa serva del male offusca la mente di chi le sta intorno, distruggendo ogni barlume di fede e portando le sue vittime a compiere atti autolesionistici e dissacratori in nome del Demonio.
Intorno a lei, un gruppo di sacerdoti (ben interpretati da Jim Van Bebber, Gene Palubicki, David E. McMahon e Scott Gabbey) si accasciano, deboli, cedendo all'oscurità .
In this sacrilegious march toward the defeat of the Christian religion, attempts at exorcism thus fail miserably by elevating American Guinea Pig: The Song of Solomon To bloody hymn to blasphemy.
The influences are. The House and The Exorcist but also Stephen Biro's passion for demonology, theology, and the struggle between good and evil, themes also covered in his books Hellucination, Dialogue With the Devil and Satan Reborn.
Plot: Mary (Jessica Cameron) becomes the target of demonic forces following the death of her father. As the Church tries to save an innocent soul from devastating demonic possession, famine, drought and chaos are the first signs of the end of the world. The coming of Christ is still far off because, before him, the Antichrist will have to reign over the earth for seven consecutive years. This is the true nature of Solomon's song: to give the world what it has been waiting for for a long time, namely, Evil.
In the cast: Jessica Cameron (An Ending, Mania, Save Yourself), Jim Van Bebber (The Manson Family, Homewrecked), Andy Winton and Gene Palubicki (previously seen in AGP: Bloodshock), Scott Gabbey (AGP: Bouquet of Guts and Gore), Maureen Allisse (The Manson Family, Roadkill), David McMahon, Josh Townsend, and Stephen Biro himself as the protagonist's father.
