Begotten (1991)
Directed by E. Elias Merhige
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
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What critics compared Begotten to
From Alain Resnais’s Last Year at Marienbad (1961) to David Lynch’s Eraserhead (1976) to E. Elias Merhige’s Begotten (1990), such films create a bewildering cinematic experience so that even if they are despised, as they often are, they are not easily forgotten.
Lynch certainly remains a factor throughout, but Men goes through a number of changes during its runtime — from the grounded story of a woman's grief and guilt, to an increasingly terrorized siege drama a la Straw Dogs , and finally into the shocking realm of E. Elias Merhige's Begotten and Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo: The Iron Man .
This is a punishing work for viewers looking for something even more antagonistically surreal than Eraserhead or Jodorowsky.
"Wants so badly to be the next "Eraserhead" you can taste it."