Begotten Movie Review

 So.....Begotten.


.......WTF DID I JUST WATCH?

Begotten is an old, old horror flick from 1990 and it is still freaky and disturbing. Apparently it was a bizarre retelling of the story of Genesis, opening the film up in a white room with blood on the walls and only one man in the room, a man dressed all in white and strapped down to a chair. He has one hand free which he uses to disembowel himself...with a straight razor. The man is listed in the credits as....get this...God Killing Himself. How that works, I don't know but for several minutes we, the audience, are subjected to this suicide. There is no dialog and no actions aside from 'God' thrashing about in his chair, cutting himself open and pulling out the guts and throwing them around as blood and guts continue to spill out of him to disgusting sound effects. It is far more disturbing than anything I've seen from recent big budget hollywood torture flicks.
Anyhoo, out of this bloody death is born Mother Earth, who emerges from 'Gods' body. The woman looks around at her new surroundings and then takes the blood off of 'Gods' body and rubs it all over herself before venturing out into a bleak and barren landscape, eventually giving birth to a full grown man, named as Son of Earth, who just convulses around on the ground, helpless and little more than an infant despite his full grown size. It's actually kind of disturbing to watch. Aaaaand Mother just leaves him there to wonder off. A roving band of faceless men find Son and take him with them. The masked men tie up Son and he eventually starts puking up his organs.....yeah. Not too long after, the faceless men burn him alive...
Later, he is ressurected and Mother returns and takes him with her.
Soon after, they are attacked by more faceless men who rape Mother. New guys show up and carry off her body and dismember her and then come back for Son and do so the same. After they leave, flowers begin to bloom out of where they were killed.

It's...really hard to know what to say about this film. It's not...bad....it's...surreal. I would almost recommend watching it just to see how well, insane this movie can be. It's an experience all of it's own.

Honestly, my summation of the events really doesn't do this film justice.

Soooooo.....after making it through this with my sanity mostly intact, I will give Begotten the gift that keeps on giving: A big old 9 out of 10.

WARNING: NOT for the faint of heart.