PRODUCER'S STATEMENT

Films can do many things to many people. They can make you laugh, shiver, cry, love, hate and fantasize. They can reconfirm your faith in the people around you or they can haunt you to your very soul. I have always felt that it was important for certain films to go all the way, to show us things that we've never dreamed of, to make us rethink our values and sometimes, to have us think the unthinkable, and feel the unimaginable.

The modern film going experience has mostly become such a passive and lifeless one that it now seems to be risking extinction altogether. Most people see films and forget them as they're watching, the cinema becoming just another over-priced shopping mall. As a fanatical lover of film, this kills me. When we began making Subconscious Cruelty six years ago, Karim and I had set out to make a film that would literally assault and traumatize the viewer to the limits of their senses. A poetic, philosophical and ruthlessly extreme film that would delve beyond the tongue-in-cheek tantalization of most modern horror film works, and go all out in its attempt to literally drive the audience mad with beauty and revulsion.

In the end, whether you adore the film or despise it, one thing remains certain - it is not an experience that will pass without emotion and be easily forgotten, and that to us, is the essence of everything. I understand that this film is not for everyone, and that is fine. It is made for that small, special audience who likes to see personal and confrontational filmmaking that gets under their skin and maybe turns them inside-out a little bit. I am that audience, and I know that I'm not alone.

- Mitch Davis