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Related: About this forumHas 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.
Nitram
(24,611 posts)Sounds delightful!
Aristus
(68,355 posts)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.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)I don't think I will.
clarice
(5,504 posts)michaljohnson
(12 posts)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)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.