"Shadow of the Vampire" wasn't great by any means - and vastly overrated, but "Begotten" makes that film look like a piece of classic cinema. The very height of pointless abstraction and meandering pretension, "Begotten" shares nothing with its audience other than animosity. Dull, witless and utterly, utterly empty of anything redeeming, the film seems to be impressed with itself, simply for being unbearably different than a watchable movie. It's just not worth the time.
