Short Film, Vol 6. Slayer, Playing With Doll's

Hello and welcome to this review.
Firstly an update on how often i'm going to review short film's, I will be releasing a review twice a week on wednesday at saturday.

Secondly, I must issue a warning about this video, it may be to violent or graphic in its own way, so  Parental Guidance is advised. The review itself is safe but the film itself may not be, be prepared for suggestive violence and gore, and not suitable for some viewer's.

Today I am going to be reviewing a short film. Now this is an interesting one, because its was created to go along with the release of the Slayer album World Painted Blood. Containing short clips from each song from the album to go along with the storyline, which with this to me works really well, at some points it dose seem a bit iffy, such as a slow fade out where a straight "halt" of the audio may have fit better, such as when the music kicks in. but this may have been tried in the making and seemed different so we'll never know.

Moving onto the films story. With this film it is very well structured, almost like a gnarly horror novel. By separating the scenes into Chapters and giving each scene a song title which gives a nice effect. With each song fitting into the scene perfectly, with a film like this, it may be odd of me to say my favorite one was for the song Playing With Doll's/Chapter 3 yet the best executed in my opinion was for the song Hate Worldwide/chapter 5.
This film has a nice story line, showing how the main protagonist was affected as a child with a simple transitions to show him in the present, then onto how he becomes this murdering serial killer. slowly building its way up through the songs of the album up to the final chapter, almost in a way sweet and innocent which is quite moving and sad, yet also disturbed. but in its final moments having a realisation on what the protagonist has done, and leaves you with the question, where did his creation go?

Another thing with this is that they could of filmed it completely differently, having live action rather than its "comic book" style feel. but having it in this way seems more effective, by cutting out all the other aspects of films that are important, such as the sounds and visuals that go along with it. It uses a method of interesting stop motion, and basic sound effects to for fill a powerful impression on the viewer.
With this stop motion method it is also quite effective, having an almost melodramatic feel to the characters actions. but with this method, possibly taking influence from the Psycho shower scene by taking a still frame and slowly zooming out, having the same method applied through this film. offering a unique way of the use stop motion, which would be hard to recreate as a stand along project without  music as an influence.

Below is the film itself, check it out, I hope you like it. and if you like the music, go buy the album, don't download music.