Singapore Sling: The Man Who Loved a Corpse
Singapore Sling: The Man Who Loved a Corpse (, tr. Singapore Sling: O Ánthropos pou Agápise éna Ptóma) is a 1990 Greek black and white horror 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 neo-noir 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. It received a theatrical release in Greece on 6 December 1990.
Plot
A mother and a (grown) daughter, live together in a secluded mansion. They spend their days playing perverse BDSM-related incestuous games in memory of their sadistic patriarch who, when he was still alive, raped his daughter when she was eleven, murdered several servants, and is now a mummified corpse with which the daughter is shown having sex. They occasionally kill their servants and bury their bodies in the garden.
Cast
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| author | Nikos Nikolaidis |
|---|---|
| director | Nikos Nikolaidis |
| editor | Andreas Andreadakis |
| genre | comedy crime drama horror thriller |
| keywords | bdsm belong bleed bullet wound chain cocktail derange dig force game incestuous sex kidnap kill murder sadistic sadomasochism search seclude sex slave sexual roleplay singapore sling suffer tie up track down |
| musicBy | Giaches de Wert Glenn Miller Julie London Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| producer | Marie-Louise Bartholomew |
| productionCompany | Cinekip Greek Film Center Marni Film |
| publisher | Greek Film Center |
| theme | art avant-garde and experimental black comedy death film noir food and drink independent missing people narrative neo-noir splatter |