Calvaire (2004) (with YouTube clip)

[Rev. Powell]

This one's available free this month on OnDemand from the Sundance Channel.  It's a surreal French horror film.  Starts out extremely slow--like, nothing happens for 30 to 45 minutes--then, just when you're nodding off, BANG! A little bestiality to wake you up.  It quickly heads into weird nightmare territory.

Here's a clip of the best scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1owrlQlLExY&feature=related

I could have done without the long setup, and it's pretty pretentious with some eye-rolling Christ allegory stuff, but some of the images stuck with me the next day.  If you're into David Lynch you might want to give this a try.   

[Mofo Rising]

I did give Calvaire a try, because Netflix compared it to Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Straw Dogs.

I hated it. It made #3 in my list of worst movies I watched last year, where I described it as "a boring movie about pigf**kers." And I had such high hopes for the film.

I do love David Lynch movies, but emphatically do not love Calvaire.

[Sister Grace]

I did give Calvaire a try, because Netflix compared it to Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Straw Dogs.

I hated it. It made #3 in my list of worst movies I watched last year, where I described it as "a boring movie about pigf**kers." And I had such high hopes for the film.

I do love David Lynch movies, but emphatically do not love Calvaire.

Thanks to Netflix, I fell into the same trap...atleast I didnt' suffer alone!

[Rev. Powell]

I'm not surprised at the negative reaction.  I didn't like it the first time through.  Then I watched certain scenes (like the clip posted) again and liked them.  I guess I would consider it a bad movie, but with good individual scenes.

[Mofo Rising]

If you liked Calvaire (and I wouldn't tell anybody else that fact), you may be interested in this Hungarian film I watched last year called The Werckmeister Harmonies.

As a film I do not think it that great, but it as some great scenes in it, mostly due to the cinematography. The two films are not that similar, but they have something of a similar tone. I enjoyed the latter more than the former. Not too much more, but it's worth checking out.