Novecento/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Complete Monster: Attila.
  • Genius Bonus: This film, suffice to say, will make much better sense if you have a cursory knowledge of Italian history, years 1900 to 1945.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Attila gets several. He goes from headbutting a kitten to death, to raping a young boy and smashing apart his head against a wall, to gleefully executing local communists.
  • Narm: In one scene a peasant cuts his ear off. It's meant to be horrifying, but a combination of Special Effects Failure and the fact that the peasant doesn't so much as blink spoils it. Also, the aforementioned splattering of the little boy's head against a wall. It too, is meant to be horrifying, but it splatters just like a watermelon.
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  • Special Effects Failure: The aforementioned ear-cutting and head-splattering. Also, the scenes with snow. It resembles shaving cream.
  • Squick: One scene features a pig being gutted. Another features a man masturbating a horse's anus to try and get it to defecate so he can throw its feces at Attila.
    • Ew. That's actually more insulting to the person who throws the shit, than to the recipient.