| critics have said
What the critics said...--
--+ No taboo is left unbroken as the film controls itself into an explicit orgiastic nightmare.
Tom Charity for TIME OUT (London)
--+ Truly extraordinary was Singapore Sling, an incredible cross between Eraserhead, Laura and the cult camp hit Thundercrack. The plot, visuals and atmosphere are impossible to describe. Singapore Sling is one of the few films of the past fifteen years one can say is truly disturbing. It stays with you. Expects to hear a lot more about it when it plays the SCALA later in the year.
Martin Coxhead for DARK SIDE - The magazine of the Macabre and Fantastic (London)
--+ ...Singapore Sling manages to attract as much as it repels... This is black humor at its darkest, often hilarious.
Jenni Moore for CITY LIMITS (London)
--+ This uniquely disgusting piece of Greek trash succeeds admirably.
Nigel Floyd for NME (London)
--+ Nikolaidis' controversial black comedy takes sumptuous film noir Cinematography to explicit scenes of perverse sex and violence, in a disturbing combination of Cult and Classic film making. Please do not attend if you are likely to be offended by explicit material.
Programme of SCALA CINEMA CLUB (London)
--+ Singapore Sling is a film that goes to the limit, partly leads to nightmare. Fabulous, cruel and at the same time extremely poetic. It is one of the most troublesome films of the recent years, comparable to the genius conception of Jodorowsky in Santa Sagre.
Noyade Mechanigue (Brussels)
--+ Sling is one of the kinkiest family epics since Thundercrack!, highlighted by the type of abusive laughs that'll worm their way into any sleaze - addict's heart. The B&W photography gives it all a Gothic noir edge, and when the sex 'n' gore begins to flow, prepare to pull on your hip boots. This is a rarity nowadays -- a gorgeously crafted film with a pure, unwavering dementia. These women are nuts, and it's obvious that this talented director is too.
Steve Puchalski's Shock Cinema #9
--+ In the line of black and white semi-art/semi-porn horrors, this is a direct descendant of The Old Dark House (1932), The House on Haunted Hill (1959), Spider Baby (1965), and Thundercrack! (1975), mixing film references, neo-noir visuals, insufferable pretension, considerable sadism and relentless sexual violence.
Phil Hardy's indispensable The Overlook Film Encyclopedia - Horror
(See: Greg Goodsell's Singapore Sling homepage)
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the cave mouth shines
by pure force of will
i look down on the world
from the top of this lonesome hill
and you can run, and run some more
from here all the way to singapore
but i will carry you home in my teeth
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