Ranked #6178

Agitated Screams of Maggots

When I first found this series, I was intrigued by its' name 'Agitated Screams of Maggots'. Then I was drawn to the grotesque and and cynical picture of the old man residing in the place where the title art usually was displayed. Expecting extreme mindfuck and irrevocable nightmares, I plunged myself into the gory screamofest...and emerged confused and and very VERY disturbed, If you intend to put this on your 'plan to watch' list, I strongly advise you to be fully aware that this music video (if you can call it that) has human bisection, extreme portrayals of human genitals, tons of guts and shit flying everywhere (literally), and is NEVER for the faint at heart. Anyways, on with the review:

Story: 5

There's not much substance to a story, since the whole thing is only 3 minutes, but Agitated Screams of Maggots does what it can and creates an extremely perturbing tale; A mother is home making dinner and takes a fish out of the freezer. While she slices it, guts come flying out and a maggot lands on her cutting board. Frightened, she cleaves the maggot half, and they morph into tiny malformed beings. Meanwhile, the daughter comes home to find these two strange creatures performing sexual intercourse, and crushes their bodies with her shoe. But the horror isn't over yet...

In my opinion, there isn't much point in a story, as the whole thing revolves around being as revolting as a music video can be. While it does present us with an interesting face-off between the creatures and the daughter, it eventually blows the whole thing out of proportion, with random spinning heads coming out of entrails, a snake-like crotch with a head and the girl transforming into some sort of demon, which makes all make the story seem spontaneous and demoralizing. I can only imagine such a strange story could be created by a crazy satanic cult specializing in strange and unusual fetishes.

Animation and Sound: 3

Though it's on MAL, the animation style looks nothing like anime whatsoever. It moreof resembles some sort of old painting, where the colours are monochromatic and grainy, and most of the pencil lines are visible. It does quite well here to portray the various parts and orifices of the human body, as well as the horrified and tormented expressions of the characters, making this one of the best parts. Unfortunately, the animation is mostly reused, with slight variation, which makes things slightly boring after awhile. I also have to say, the quality skimped a few times and some frames looked very jagged and claymation-like.

The music wasn't too great. Since it was a music video, it only had one track, and it was just a screamo song (by Dir En Gray). Though it was fitting to the genre, the lyrics to it weren't discernible at all, and I eventually turned off the volume while watching because it was just that detracting.

Characters: 4

Lets see...we have one distraught mother, an aloof daughter and crazy creatures. While the mother shows no real importance, the daughter and the creatures are actually quite interesting. The daughter, though quite wiry and short, is very unfazed by the crazy antics of the creature, who tries to coat her in crap and suffocate her. The creature itself is also quite interesting looking, as it is a nude parasitic muscular man with a strange instinct to fuck and kill. The problem I have with these characters is that they're quite one-sided, and get somewhat predictable afterwards.

Enjoyment and Overall: 3

Holy crap...this thing was more mindfuck than every episode of Elfen Lied combined. Even being somewhat open to blood and gore, Agitated Screams of Maggots pushes things to the limit of comprehension and desensitizes you. This title should be renamed Mindfuck: The Music Video. As aforementioned, it you have a weak heart, don't watch this, and if you're curious, don't consider this too much, as it wasn't anything great.

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I am... I am so confused... That is probably the best review I could give... Is there a deeper meaning to this? I don't know. Maybe its self-empowerment? I mean, the girl is able to beat her sexual captor isn't she? But still, my mind is in a whole new world of fuck...