 The film features Manoush and Cyanide Savior's song "Dead Before Born" as well as a song by A. Shevchenko, "Forgive Me", with Manoush speaking the introduction to the track.It also includes an original score by Shevchenko.The Worldwide Celluloid Massacre has "Philosophy of a Knife" listed as the fifth most disturbing film it has covered, and stated that while it was interesting and intense "I was reminded of Gibson's "Passion" in that the movie takes an ambitious and difficult subject, then spends most of its time focusing only on gore".