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Oh my goth! This was funny.
I rented this movie expecting to see a portrayal of "Goth culture" in its stereotypical form (e.g. vampires, thrill killings, "embracing the darkness"), and well. . . I was right. However, me being familiar with the Goth scene (which is just music despite the claims of an angst ridden teenager), I was able to find some priceless humor in the movie. The humor doesn't apply to just the Goth scene, but any type of music scene where a large portion of its members try and make themselves out to be elitists and live their lives according to the image of whatever music it is that they're into. Goth ( the movie) can be easily described as The Doom Generation meets Training Day; except instead of the co stars (Chrissy and Boone [what the hell kind of name is that?]) struggling to make the narcotics squad, they're on a quest to be able to truly label themselves Goth, and prove to the main character - who by coincidence is named Goth - that they're not poseurs; which leads to Goth threatening the couple to take part in bad things (things that Goths allegedly do when they're together) by taunting them with the dreaded question: "What's the matter? I thought you guys were Goth?" Of course there are a few twists in this movie, but I can't figure out how to talk about them without giving everything away. It wasn't the best story in the world, but the movie did keep me entertained which is what it's supposed to do, and it had some really good industrial songs by some lesser known bands which I thought was cool. I'll just conclude my review with a few questions I have (and I'm sure you'll have) after seeing this movie: how could this be a movie about Goths if half of the soundtrack is Electronic-Industrial? How did Boone's glass refill itself with Absinthe after he clearly poured it out in the alley? And who in God's name is driving the van?

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Massively Dissapointing
This is a two-DVD set with over 55 clips of groups rainging from Christian Death, Goetus, Clock DVA, Die Krupps, Psychic TV, Switchblade Symphony to Lords of the New Church, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry and Chameleons U.K. Most, if not all of the clips look like they were filmed with a hand held 16mm and and most of the songs have an unrelenting "sameness" to them. Once you open the box, there is NO packaging, just blank boxes and a disc in each box. It feels like someone was cleaning out the storage room and threw all this stuff together. For hard-core fans of obscure Goth and Industrial bands only.

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Not Goth, but good film making
I rented this flick hoping it would be a story
based on the Gothic lifesyle or scene; it was not.
But still a decent flick if you don't care about
goth content. The DVD Good Girl's don't sleep in Coffins
is a little more relevent.