Born Villain (film) in West Hollywood, California, which LaBeouf described as a large movie theater where Manson spends much of his time viewing films. LaBeouf said that he and Manson watched several films together there, and discussed the "really eccentric ideas" they had for their video collaboration. LaBeouf financed the film himself. It was inspired by William Shakespeare's "Macbeth", Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel's surrealist short film "Un Chien Andalou" (1929), Alejandro Jodorowsky's "The Holy Mountain" (1973), and what LaBeouf described as "heavy theology." Laney Chantal, the wife of Marilyn Manson member Twiggy Ramirez, served as the makeup artist for the short. Manson
Invisible Adversaries Export and Su Friedrich," referred to "Invisible Adversaries" as a feminist version of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", noted that the film includes references to famous paintings and to "Un Chien Andalou", and wrote that therefore it "is visually rick, entertaining, striking, but also demanding." A few reviews, however, were negative. For example, London's "Time Out" wrote about the film that it is "[n]ot unlike """ and that it will "probably age as badly" and a reviewer for "The Heights" wrote that "I was expecting a great feminist work here, but got mediocrity. I cannot recommend that you see this