I feel like there used to be a heck of a lot more experimental arthouse type films in the recent past. Nowadays they are few and far between. Of course, they can be an acquired taste, but when done well they can create a sensory trip like few other films do. Written and directed by Ty Brueilly, 7eventh 7ircle is the eleventh instalment of the 'Shucks cinematic world'. You will likely gather from my thoughts to come, but I really didn't have much of a clue what this was all about.
Over sixteen minutes we get a series of tales that appear to be told from beyond life. It features various characters wearing creepy masks, hanging out and doing stuff. There are some demonic cultist type people out in woodland ready to sacrifice a doll, a family of cultists sat around a dinner table with their meal of sticks, among other such things. Mainly this is dialogue free, it had the feel more of a music video, with the expertly edited images going in time with the hypnotic beat of the music. What dialogue there was had some background interference to it but that didn't really detract from anything. Apparently, this short film is based on the seventh circle of Hell from Dante Alighieri's Inferno, a quick Google search reveals that is the circle for the sin of violence.
I won't even begin to pretend I understood what the purpose of any of this was. It made for a trippy quarter hour, and the mix between the images and sound was often sublime, was definitely something to experience. 7eventh 7ircle had it's world premiere on 5th September at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. It has it's hometown premiere in Asheboro on 11th December at the Sunset Theatre.
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