Incredibly sensual - especially the second chapter. Lots of cinematic inventions - technically very rich. Experimental use of overexposure intrigued me. Also very frequent use of close ups and the incredible soundtrack rip the place apart and leave the audience with the inner desires of the protagonist. - It is as if the film is the sexual tension between the actress and the audience - Loved the ending.

I probably use the term "pure cinema" too often, but this, my friends, is definitely pure cinema. Both in the sense of what i used to term "sensualist cinema" in it's intensely tactile nature, de-emphasis of dialogue, psychology, and other forms of "characterization", and also in a more classical sense of shot construction and editing creating meaning. The comparisons to both Dario Argento and Philippe Grandrieux others have noted are completely accurate, and as a fan of both i loved it.

Just watched this Belgian attempt at a giallo and I'm not sure if I've seen a work of genius or 90 minutes of lunacy. At the moment I'm siding more in favour of genius

It is both a film that can be easily explained and yet can also be trivialised, by trying to explain it, when it deserves far more praise...what I will say is that this takes the idea of style for the sake of style to a point that it is much more than that, where the visuals and sound design are utterly incredible. By making an art film from Italian genre tropes, the directors manage to make something far more visceral and tense than most horror films.

Wonderfully shot, but dreamlike story reminiscent of Italian Giallos is not for everyone.

13 Aralik 2011 & Orjinal bir yapim oldugu icin amer'i bir yere alip koyamiyorum. zihnimde kendisine yer acmayi basardigi icin sevdim. giallo turunun kapilarini aralamami saglayan bir yapimdir. gorsel anlamda sinemanin tum nimetlerinden yararlanip kendi tarzini ortaya koyabiliyor ama en buyuk artisi sesler ile kurdugu/yarattigi dunya. hikaye kismi daha guclu olsaydi ve sadece gorsele dayanmak zorunda kalmasaydi daha iyi olacakti.

You know what would help this movie? Medicinal.

Highly original - and deeply flawed. "Amer" masquerades as giallo but does in fact share more similarities with the introspective and (almost violently) sense-heightened art films of Lodge Kerrigan and Philippe Grandrieux. It is, however, definitely inferior to the work of these directors. I absolutely loved the sequences with the razor and with the young girl walking past a motorcycle gang. Those sequences managed to stimulate my senses. Too many of the other sequences left me cold.

A triumph of stylistic mimicry, it completely succeeds in imitating the visuals of the campy gialli of the 70s. To blame it for the simplistic plot is completely unfair because no giallo ever excelled in that regard. What I did miss, though, was the whodunit aspect. This is a more introspective, even artsyfartsy, film which makes for a curious mixture. The expansive editing, focusing a lot on the body and face of the rather unattractive protagonist, got really tiresome. Should have been a short.

"This kaleidoscopic freak show, indebted as much to Argento and Bava as it is to Cronenberg, Deren, and Brakhage, is a study in sexual cause and effect." - Ed Gonzalez

Technically astounding, with really beautiful shallow DoF photography and wonderful foley sound, a sensual feast. There are some memorable sequences - the motorbike gang and the razor scene in particular, but the film fell apart badly for me in the third act. I'm not familiar with with giallo, perhaps I missed the references.

EXTREME CLOSE UP! WOOOOOOOAAAAAAHHHHHHH

The S&M fetish that appears to be sexual is really cinematic, and worthlessly pro-am at that. An everlasting ordeal of sexual confusion on both the character's and the filmmakers' end.