Full Horror Short-Bits: Solar Anus Cinema (2010) by Usama Alshaibi


Director: Usama Alshaibi
Year: 2011
Country: USA/Iraq
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Compilation; Exploitation

There’s not much in the way of things to say about this one. The overall concept of this one featuring a series of shorts edited together allows for a non-stop slew of confrontational and extreme images generating a highly uncomfortable time here. The frequent nudity and highly expressive concepts manage to move this one along which comes about rather nicely due to constantly switching thoughts onto the next controversial effort after another that is somewhat uncomfortable in points. The fact that everything has an uneasy quality that has a generally sleazy DIY-style of filming adding everything has quite a lot to like for this type of effort.

That said, there are some issues with the repetitive nature of the shorts basically repeated over and over several times over, to the point that it’s quite hard to differentiate them from each other. That’s somewhat due to the way it’s constructed due to the collection of the previous shorts barely featuring any kind of coherent throughline in an anthology format which comes about due to the segments being filmed years earlier before being assembled together in this collection so it’s quite hard to get into the groove of this by changing to the next one without much going for it.

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