Subconscious Cruelty
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Subconscious Cruelty |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK unchecked |
| Rod | |
| Director | Karim Hussain |
| script | Karim Hussain |
| production | Mitch Davis |
| music | Teruhiko Suzuki |
| camera |
François Bourdon Karim Hussain |
| cut | Karim Hussain |
| occupation | |
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Subconscious Cruelty is a Canadian experimental horror - episode film in 2000 by Karim Hussain .
action
The film consists of three unrelated episodes:
- Human larvae
- A seemingly caring brother takes care of his pregnant sister in a crumbling house. In fact, he wants to pervert the process of birth and thereby negate creation. When his sister gives birth, he kills the baby in front of her eyes, after which the sister also dies.
- Rebirth
- In Rebirth one is pagan shown that ends in a bloody orgy.
- Right Brain - Martyrdom
- The last episode is about a man who leads a dreary existence. At night he watches porn and is plagued by nightmares in which he is tortured in the most cruel way. Finally he wakes up on the street in a Jesus costume. He is then kidnapped, crucified and tortured to death.
background
The film was made after Karim Hussain and Mitch Davis founded the production company Infliction Films . Due to the low budget, the shooting took around five years - from 1994 to 1999. The short film Divided Into Zero was also made during this time .
The film premiered on October 12, 2000 at the Sitges Film Festival . In July 2001 it was shown for the first time in German-speaking countries. At the presentation at the Fantasy Filmfest , rows of spectators left the room.
In 2005 a version with German subtitles was released on DVD in Austria for the first time. This also contained the short films Divided Into Zero and La dernière voix as well as a booklet with a detailed review of the film by Marcus Stiglegger under the heading "Transgression and redemption?" - Notes on transgressive cinema by Karim Hussain and Mitch Davis .
In 2018, the Cinestrange Extreme label released a mediabook of the film that included a German soundtrack for the first time. The 12-page booklet in the mediabook is also called " Notes on transgressive cinema by Mitch Davis and Karim Hussain ". On the Blu-ray Disc and DVD you will find the short films " Divided Into Zero " and " Gods Little Girl " as bonus material in addition to trailers and a picture gallery .
Reviews
In his essay on the cinema by Karim Hussain and Mitch Davis, Marcus Stiglegger is enthusiastic about the cross-border effect of the film. He sums up:
“SUBCONSCIOUS CRUELTY can be seen in its very own way as a version of cross-border, transgressive cinema. Davis and Hussain are looking for an absolute, ultimate truth beyond the banal experience of the everyday. "
Web links
- Subconscious Cruelty in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alexander Stahl: Subconscious Cruelty. In: Manifest - Das Filmmagazin. Retrieved April 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Subconscious Cruelty in the online film database . Retrieved April 19, 2019.
- ↑ Subconscious Cruelty on sectional reports. In: Schnittberichte.com. October 27, 2018, accessed on February 6, 2020 (German).
- ↑ quoted from: Marcus Stiglegger : "Transgression and redemption?" - Notes on transgressive cinema . In: Booklet by Subconscious Cruelty (DVD / Blu-Ray) . Cinestrange, 2018, p. 9 .