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What happens to a woman when she is abused by her parents, becomes a runaway at the tender age of 14, is molested by a local priest who takes her in and is then used and abused by nearly everyone she comes into contact with? For Angela Aberdeen the answer is to turn away from the human race and all earthly reality by making a sacred pact with Satan. After enlisting his protection in return for her eternal soul, her first act is to burn down the priest s church as he lays passed out drunk on the floor. She then flees to the city where she develops a horrible addiction to alcohol and drugs. Angela quickly spirals downward in her journal to Hell. Stripping turns to pornography and prostitution and as her deadly addictions tear her body apart, she realizes that even Satan has seemingly forsaken her. (official distributor synopsis)
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So I finally saw what it looks like to literally shit in someone's head. I'm neither the wiser nor the worldlier, and in fact I'm not even disgusted by it – this series of bloody and nauseating nightmares might say something about the total cesspool that many individuals get stuck in from head to toe, but leaves you with nothing. This creepy Satanist/Lucifer Valentine is just as amateurish and chaotic as you'd probably expect and holds your attention at times only with an intense soundtrack and a few well-placed cuts. But even such marginal artistic intentions could have been sold much more skillfully and effectively, instead of only being controversial and ugly just for the sake of it. Don't look for a story, just anxiety and disorientation.
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The soundtrack of the film takes on incredible power, namely the voices and monologues spoken by "other" (deeper) voices, and the disturbing underscore, where the final chopped up song wins out and the film really offers an emotion that few expected from such madness – emotion and wonder.
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