Review of Anguish (1987) by Rex B — 05 Jun 2007
I only saw this film recently, but it is fantastic. Levels of reality are the main theme of this film, as it first hooks you in with the story of a man who is constantly hypnotized by his strange mother to kill people and collect their eyeballs, then shifts the level of reality to two teenage girls sitting in a movie theatre watching what we had been witnessing up on the screen.
As the hypnotized son begins to murder people in a movie theatre something strangely similar starts to transpire in the theatre with the two teenage girls. Toward the end we get a hint of another level of reality intruding.
Strange, disturbing, and genuinely original. To watch this film in a theatre full of people would place it in yet another level of reality.
This review of Anguish (1987) was written by Rex B on 05 Jun 2007.
Anguish has generally received positive reviews.
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