Lunacy

Lunacy

2005 · 118 min · CS · 6.9 (61 votes)
Dir. Jan Švankmajer · Starring Pavel Liška, Jan Tříska, Anna Geislerová, Jaroslav Dušek, Martin Huba, Karel Heřman
ComedyHorror

A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more sinister than what the young man may've predicted.

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This film feels like a fever dream dipped in cheap paint and existential dread. It's a lurid, unsettling descent into madness where the lines between reality and delusion blur into a grotesque, campy spectacle.

unsettlinggrotesqueabsurdistcampysteadygiallo-adjacentexploitation horrorpsychedeliclow-budgetmadnessdeceptionreligionpower
asyluminsane asylumblack massblasphemy
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