Singapore Sling (1990 film)

Singapore Sling The Man Who Loved a Corpse Greek Singapore Sling , tr. Singapore Sling O Anthropos pou Agapise ena Ptoma is a 1990 Greek blackandwhite dramatic experimental independent surrealist underground art film directed by Nikos Nikolaidis and regarded as his magnum opus. Considered a difficult film to label while still managing to develop something of a cult following throughout the years nonetheless, it was shot in a bizarre manner somewhat resembling film noir or neonoir and black comedy as well as the exploitation, thriller, and crime genres mixed with some elements of eroticism and horror with sex being used as a power game and received a theatrical release in Greece onDecember 1990. Despite Nikolaidis career as a film director in his home country which stretches to the early 1960s he was almost entirely unknown outside Greece before the early 1990s and is still less known outside it and it was only with this film, which has immediately achieved cult status, that international fame came to him and it probably still remans the film for which he is best known today, as exemplified by the fact that it was released on DVD by Synapse Films, the only one of Nikolaidis films to so far receive a home video release in North America. The film was officially selected for screening at the Rimini Film Festival.

When first glimpsed the psychotic motherdaughter protagonists, halfdressed, are burying their disemboweled chauffeur in a pit they have just finished to dig in their backyard on a dark and stormy night under the thunder and heavy rain. They lay a shovel and drag out of the bushes his fresh corpse, put to death in one of their usual games combining incestuous sex with murder. Shortly after this and at first unnoticed by the two women a lovesick detective pulls his car up to the residence, suffering from a painful bullet wound and an equally painful yearning to track down Laura, his longmissing beloved for whom he has been searching for three years and about whom it is known that she has visited the area. What he does not know is that he has stumbled onto the lair of two profoundly insane women who have already lured Laura into their home and brutally killed her in the process decorating their kitchen with her viscera, as a flashback helpfully shows. It is also revealed that the daughter is physically very similar to Laura and is desperately looking for a mans companionship.The duo then easily take the seriously wounded and bleeding detective, having already figured them out to be responsible for Lauras kidnapping, into their home, essentially kidnapping him. As the exhausted detective was silent and apparently refuses to speak, even in order to state his own name, the two women christen him Singapore Sling after they discover a recipe in his pocket notebook for that type of cocktail and seem quite content with that arrangement. They use him as a pawn in their sexually tinged roleplaying games and as a party to their distorted and perverse form of entertainment, during which Singapore Sling, now a prisoner, is tied up, chained to a bed, vomited on, electrocuted, used as a sex slave, and subjected to various other forms of torture and atrocities in which he is forced to participate. However, as Singapore Slings confinement wears on he regains his strength and takes a

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