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Aristus

(68,355 posts)
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 10:32 AM Feb 2015

Has anyone seen the movie "Begotten"?

It's by the guy who made "Shadow Of the Vampire".

I won't link to it. It's probably a felony to do so. But it's available on YouTube.

The director calls it a "retelling of the Book of Genesis". If so, he took an already twisted family saga, and turned it into torture porn.

A "god" of some sort disembowels himself and gives birth to Mother Earth. She in turn arouses his dead body (I'm not kidding) and impregnates herself with his semen. She then gives birth to a fully-grown, epileptic man-child whose role in the film seems to be to lay there seizing and suffering while a band of cannibal nomads dismembers him and rapes Mother Earth. They then dismember her, and bury the body parts, which apparently are the seeds of new-growing plants. The End.

Whew! It's tough going.

The only reason I watched it is because I viewed the trailer for it on the DVD of 'Shadow Of The Vampire' and thought it was intriguing.

The only reason I didn't have nightmares afterward is because I frantically called up a few episodes of "Scrubs" to kind of cleanse the palate before going to bed.

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Has anyone seen the movie "Begotten"? (Original Post) Aristus Feb 2015 OP
A bit reminiscent of the Isis-Osiris myth, in some respects . Nitram Feb 2015 #1
Some Egyptian-style coloration would have been nice. Aristus Feb 2015 #2
I haven't watched it. In_The_Wind Mar 2015 #3
Seen it. Disturbing indeed. nt clarice Apr 2015 #4
Has anyone seen the movie "Begotten"? michaljohnson Apr 2015 #5
I have it on VHS. Independent_Liberal May 2015 #6

Aristus

(68,355 posts)
2. Some Egyptian-style coloration would have been nice.
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:41 PM
Feb 2015

Osiris in green, Isis a lovely reddish-brown. That would have been enjoyable.

The whole film was in a filthy, high-contrast, white-over-black color scheme. It was like spending 72 minutes in Hell.

 

michaljohnson

(12 posts)
5. Has anyone seen the movie "Begotten"?
Mon Apr 13, 2015, 03:34 AM
Apr 2015

Yes of course i have Sen the Movie Begotten. God Killing Himself ( Brain Salzberg ), Mother Earth ( Donna Dempsey ) and Son of Earth - Flesh on Bone ( Stephen Charles Barry ) are Players in a Myth of Primal Gore. It was Released on June 5, 1991 in United States Of America, which was Directed by E. Elias Merhige.

Independent_Liberal

(4,108 posts)
6. I have it on VHS.
Fri May 29, 2015, 10:45 PM
May 2015

Would like to get the DVD, but it's long out-of-print and WAY too expensive on most places like eBay and Amazon. I hope it gets re-released by Criterion.

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