Review of Begotten (1991) by Rafay K — 14 Aug 2009

Unique,very different and slightly overlong.

This review of Begotten (1991) was written by Rafay K on 14 Aug 2009.

Begotten has generally received mixed reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of Begotten

Review of Begotten (1991)

By Michael T (3,420) on 23 Apr 2012

This move can be difficult to watch but if you don't come out of it with some feeling of hope and ultimately love then I think you should give…

Read Review

Review of Begotten (1991)

By Cita W (407) on 18 Mar 2011

That awkward moment when you heard the sound of him shitting all over his legs…

Read Review

Review of Begotten (1991)

By Nicholas A (355) on 19 Apr 2015

I film that is shocking and hard to rate. This film was disturbing in my opinion…

Read Review

Review of Begotten (1991)

By Bryony P (23) on 19 Oct 2012

Boring…

Read Review

Review of Begotten (1991)

By Douglas L (748) on 04 Jul 2013

A powerful film if you can manage to sit through it. Its quite disturbing and the images become so abstracted with the harsh contrast…

Read Review

Review of Begotten (1991)

By Dominic T (42) on 03 Apr 2011

A tedious pseudo intellectual experiment that would have worked better as a short film…

Read Review

Review of Begotten (1991)

By Sally M (52) on 05 Sep 2011

Bizarre, totally evil and grisly…

Read Review

Review of Begotten (1991)

By Elek M (79) on 02 Dec 2012

Very strange, a reviewer once said when the film came out that it was like a Rorschach test, and it certainly was…

Read Review

Review of Begotten (1991)

By Elgan D (601) on 21 Apr 2016

Begotten is among the most otherworldly of filmmaking I've seen…

Read Review

Review of Begotten (1991)

By Brian K (1,195) on 05 Apr 2012

Some legendary stuff right here, virtually no dialogue just pure fucking horror…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of Extraterrestrial (2014)

By Kevin Maher (647) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 04 Dec 2014

There's nothing at all original, engaging, stimulating or thought-provoking (for all of these, see Invasion of the Body Snatchers) within its frames…

Read Review

Review of Snakes on a Plane (2006)

By Ansong (19) on 28 Dec 2006

Boring, pointless, and too long. I cant believe they release this garbage on cinema…

Read Review

Review of Indigenous (2014)

By Des S (597) on 27 Mar 2016

I watched this only a few days ago and I cannot even remember any of it. That's how impressed I was with this film…

Read Review

Review of Event Horizon (1997)

By Scott Rosenberg (28) for Salon.com (2,725) on 28 Nov 2014

Trying to figure out just what went wrong in the creation of a movie as dreadful as this may ultimately be as futile as trying to ascertain…

Read Review

Review of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)

By Azaanv. (1) on 14 Jan 2006

LOTR but it was changed so kids could understand. not good for anyone that questions stuff…

Read Review

Review of A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

By Anh H (260) on 05 Aug 2014

It was so bad. I'm bored to death. Gotta say the ceiling blood bath is creative, but random scare like that is not gonna work…

Read Review

Review of Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 Aug 2000

Even the most desensitized, ghoulishly amoral gleaners of deviant cinema can’t just stare down the nastiness on display in Cannibal Holocaust…

Read Review

Review of Alien³ (1992)

By Daveoakenshield (3) on 12 Jan 2021

No spoilers here, I just simply want to say - **** THIS FILM!!! That's it, that's the review…

Read Review

Review of Skinamarink (2023)

By Xylopylo (1) on 14 Jan 2023

I seriously cannot understand how this movie doesn't have more bad reviews…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

A Quiet Place

2018

76%1,685 Reviews

Nope

2022

68%181 Reviews

Oppenheimer

2023

85%310 Reviews

Midsommar

2019

69%207 Reviews

The Invitation

2022

47%33 Reviews

Hereditary

2018

72%1,650 Reviews

Spider-Man: No Way Home

2021

79%458 Reviews

Past Lives

2023

84%62 Reviews

Ready Player One

2018

72%1,541 Reviews

Three Thousand Years of Longing

2022

65%84 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Begotten

1991

60%185 Reviews

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

2016

69%796 Reviews

Green Street Hooligans

2005

74%549 Reviews

Reno 911!: Miami

2007

53%473 Reviews

How the West Was Won

1962

71%173 Reviews

Laurel Canyon

2003

64%275 Reviews

Burke & Hare

1972

47%387 Reviews

The Accountant

2016

68%1,176 Reviews

Happy Feet

2006

67%757 Reviews

Prey

2022

70%227 Reviews