"...Makes Eraserhead Look Like Ernest Saves Christmas" is my favorite testimony of this movie, and probably the most accurate description of it. And how true it is. Not to say that Begotten is better than Eraserhead, which it isn't and doesn't try to be, but it is definatively darker. It's actually hard to imagine a movie darker than Begotten. How many movies begin in a cabin in the woods depicting the Almighty slaughtering himself with a razor blade? I only know of one. Yes, Begotten is truely an original piece of art. Or, as some people surely see it, a truely original piece of shit. Indeed, it is not only extremely blasphemous, offensive and brutally violent, it is also a film that disregards any sense of plot or story. Think Eraserhead had "no plot"? Think Gummo had "no plot"? You my friend, don't know the meaning of the term "no plot", at least not until you've seen Begotten. Describing Begotten is like trying to describe a piece of art*. You can't explain it in typical movie terms and it is definately a film that is subject to taste. As great of a movie I personally think it is, the masses that go to IMDB.com rate it at a little above a 5/10. In fact, I bet you, the reader, will find this movie to be a boring piece of trash that anybody could have made. Well Nicolas Cage would disagree. In fact, Cage loved the movie so much he enlisted the director, Elias Mehrige, to direct Cage's production of the hit film Shadow of the Vampire. As if I haven't stressed it enough, Begotten is a wonderful film that will surely scar the minds of any children that happen to to catch a glimpse of it. In fact, I gaurantee the images presented in this film will be forever burnt into the mind of any child that views it; an experiment I whole heartedly encourage.
5 stars
* While watching this film, I couldn't help but feel it was almost as if schitzophrenic artist Nick Blinko's work was projected into movie form.
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