Begotten

Released - 1991
Genre - Horror, Fantasy
Director - E. Elias Merhige
Starring - Brian Salzberg, Donna Dempsey, Stephen Charles Barry

This is seriously pretentious arty nonsense filmed in grainy under and over exposed black and white with no dialogue. We kick off with a figure, meant to represent God, committing suicide by disembowelling himself; the corpse spawns a mother earth body and it is dragged up a cliff by a bunch of people in cloaks, the body is eaten, beaten and raped before it finally dies all accompanied by a weird ambient soundtrack. There is some creepy disturbing imagery here like a surreal nightmare but it is a struggle to make sense of and offers little in the way of entertainment.

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