Shot in stark black and white looking like an unearthed flick from the late 19th - early 20th-Century, "Begotten" is one of those films I never forgot ever since I first viewed it years back. A weird hybrid of "Un Chien Andalou", "Vampyr", and "The Seventh Seal", this burned and deformed offspring pretty much stands on its own. A phantom in white guts itself; a woman in an eye mask performs male genital exercises and gets cream-lined for her efforts; an endlessly spastic unfortunate in scars gets picked up by a group of Sunn O))) - like hoodies who persistently try to kill him in various ways all failing miserably; all shadowed with a soundtrack consisting of nature sounds and a hybrid of strange noises - scenes that will be etched on the mind's eye like a slightly disturbing memory. Long, slow, boring, tedious, unsettling and utterly memorable, this is one of the more enduring experiments in those attempts "to be different".
Review of Begotten
