Rémy Belvaux
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Sporadic laughs spatter this New Zealand mockumentary, which plays less like Spinal Tap meets Twilight than Man Bites Dog eats Vampires Suck .
From “This is Spinal Tap” to the Belgian import “Man Bites Dog,” some of my favorite comedies follow this format.
As ridiculously entertaining as it can be, Sin City is far from an "important" movie like such ultra-violent flashpoints as Straw Dogs, Reservoir Dogs or Man Bites Dog (do you notice a trend here, canine-watchers?).
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
Directed by John McNaughton
influenced Man Bites Dog (1992)
Plot
If you can imagine such a thing as "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" dressed up in art house haute couture and staged as a drolly surrealistic comedy of murders, then you have an idea of what's up in "Man Bites Dog." Directed by Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel and Benoit Poelvoorde -- a trio of Belgians who also wrote, shot, produced and play star roles -- the film is a mock documentary about the making of a cinema verite documentary about an extremely sociable psychopathic rapist, murderer and thief.
If it's really a metacinematic treatise on the audience's complicity in sadistic entertainment that you're looking for, well, let me refer you to the Belgian shocker Man Bites Dog, which covered this ground more rigorously a few years ago.