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Where can I see this one?

posted 2 years ago by TheMan18 (13028)
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So far, out of all the nearly obscure and unavailable most other works directed by Matthew Saliba, this one, provocatively entitled "She Was Asking For It" (2007), notorious "reverse" you know what revenge themed horror short film, is arguably the most inaccessible one yet. Not available anywhere easily online to watch, download or even purchase a DVD-R copy.

But does anyone know, where can one see it, also, if one HAS to contact its maker Matthew Saliba directly, where can one accomplish this, thanks.

I myself, even though I am not holding my breath and am prepared to be disappointed (its got a low 3.9 IMDb rating possibly not JUST to its "unpopular type of subject matter), still want to see it.

From what I have heard, this is basically a "La Jetee" ("The Pier" in French) (1962)-styled and in certain ways giallo inspired short film with a reversed "I Spit on Your Grave" type of vengeance theme around it, shot mostly in still photographs (!) (but I haven't seen it so I can't tell if entirely or not) and even borrows David Lynch's "Lost Highway" (1997) use of "Rammstein" by Rammstein for its soundtrack, and it is disturbing and hard to find.

I also wonder, was anyone who WAS disappointed in it, and there are a lot if not the majority even if few have even SEEN it, disliked it more due to its lacklustre quality than subject matter?

I have also read at least one review that thought that yes the ladies were definitely in the wrong and even possibly if not outright evil and sociopathic or even downright psychopathic to do what they did to the main male character (played apparently by the director Saliba HIMSELF) but he was definitely or allegedly not in the right to exact the over the top violent and SPOILERS murderous vengeance on them either.

So yeah its practically "Boy Meets Girl" (1994), "The Book of Revelation" (2006) with a vengeance that followed.

And from what I have heard, this short film makes Eli Roth's "Knock Knock" (2015) look like a Disney flick.

But anyways, where can I watch this one, thanks. :)

[–] TheMan18 (13028) a month ago

Its now on YouTube and by the way, yes, I did finally see it. My oh my. Yep, it IS pretty controversial, release it onto a public there will be a mass outrage. And yes it does what you think it does, and you may still ask if the guy went a little too far with this?

I have to say, moving briefly aside its controversial nature, I wasn't all impressed with it, I guess around a 4/10 is what I probably will give it. It even manages to be somewhat derivative by openly borrowing at least two musical pieces from Lynch's "Lost Highway" (1997) and it being shot thoroughly through still photographs does make it a bit on the tedious side. It does have a bit of style that is almost giallo-esque but other than that, not much more to it.

If you're thinking of watching this and you feel you're up to it, give it a go, but don't expect too much, besides the controversial nature of subject matter as such alone. By the way, even IF we COULD judge a matter like this on its own even without broaching real life sadly high frequency statistics in such matter with situation err 'reversed', could we still come up with a satisfying conclusion and also think the guy and the movie went a bit over the top? I won't spell out if I think its "right", it can indeed be open to interpretations. Or the movie can just be watched and appreciated as a slice of slightly less than usual, controversial, underground little short film shocker - although in my view, not among the very best at all examples of such category. Oh well.

P.S. Fingers crossed of course, don't worry folks, I won't be acting like this guy at all ever in my life. But still, movie wise...

P.S.S. You can also even add it to a list of underground, fairly obscure or just disturbing HORROR movies to watch.