Begotten (1989)
Brand New DVDNobody will get through Begotten without being marked. In this nightmare classic by Edmund Elias Merhige, a godlike thing dies giving birth to a quivering messiah thing; then the local villager things ravage and bury them, and the earth renews itself on their corpses. It is as if a druidical cult had re-enacted, for real, three Bible stories - creation, the Nativity and Jesus' and death on Golgotha - and some demented genius were there to film it. No names, no dialogue, no compromises, no exit. No apologies either, for Begotten is a spectacular one-of-a-kind (you wouldn't want there to be two), filmed in speckled chiaroscuro so that each image is a seductive mystery, a Rorschach test for the adventurous eye.
Director:
E. Elias MerhigeCast:
Brian Salzberg, Donna Dempse, Stephen Charles Barry, James Gandia, Daniel Harkins, Michael Phillips, Erik Slavin, Arthur Streeter, Adolfo Vargas, Garfield WhiteDVD Features
| Region: | 1 - United States, Canada |
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| Aspect Ratio: | 1,33:1 Fullscreen |
| Audio Tracks: | English - Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo |
| Subtitles: | (Not subtitled) |
| Run time: | 78 Minutes |
| Package: | Keep Case |
| Studio: | World Artists |
| Country: | United States |