Man Bites Dog

1993 "It happened in your neighborhood."
7.4| 1h36m| NC-17| en| More Info
Released: 15 January 1993 Released
Producted By: Les Artistes Anonymes
Country: Belgium
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The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and arbitrary musings on topics of interest to him, such as music or the conditions of low-income housing, and even goes so far as to introduce the documentary crew to his family. But their reckless indulgences soon get the better of them.

Genre

Comedy, Crime

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Director

Benoît Poelvoorde, Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel

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Les Artistes Anonymes

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Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever
SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.
Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible
FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Mapinguarify This movie is about moral decay of film crew. It is heavyweight dark story that makes you sick, very realistic and interesting all the way through the film. It's dark, witty, depressive and movie that makes you sick at the same time. It's fake documentary about charismatic serial killer followed by film crew. At the some point, crew lose objectivity and start helping him.Probably, one of the best Belgian movies of all time. First I considered plot is moving too fast, but after I finished the movie, I am sure director caught right tempo and did the great job. Must see
redrobin62-321-207311 I don't get why this movie is referred to as being black comedy. There's nothing funny in this film. In fact, the movie had me on the edge of my seat for so long I felt like I was paralyzed. Never had a film instill this much fear in me except for the night vision scene in "Silence of the Lambs."I gave it a high ranking because it created a deeply visceral response in me where few films have. I think I was sweating just to get through this film, and was finally relieved when it did end. It was like my heart was going to jump out of my chest at any time. Man, this movie was suspenseful.What's interesting is "Man Bites Dog" was accomplished on a shoe- string budget by college film students. The reason I'd acquired the movie in the first place is because it was banned in something like 21 countries. I loved banned films because, as it turns out, what's bad for "normal" viewers is good for me. Other banned films I've enjoyed were "Baise Moi," "Cannibal," "Cannibal Holocaust," "I Spit On Your Grave," etc.
Jesus Christ I just saw the movie bout ten minutes ago and the second it finished I felt dirty. The movie makes you laugh at things that you wouldn't ever think you would be able to laugh to. The characters are a weird mix of extremely likable and extremely unlikeable. The movie has two scenes which made me want to fast forward 1. The rape scene 2. The child murder scene.The only problem i have with the film is that at times it get a little two slow and to much talking and the ending was a tiny bit too sudden. Overall it was a very funny and disturbing film which I'm not sure if I could watch it again soon because of the extremely hard to watch rape scene, I gave it a 8 out of 10.
uwa While I was watching this movie, I started to think about the 'real' documentaries that were made in late 80's and 90's, one of the documentaries which have won an Oscar, was about children selling themselves in order to earn money. I imagine, the directors also have watched these documentaries and started to ask themselves where is the line? which is a question often discussed by the documentarists. They gave a good spin to that idea and come up with making a documentary about a serial killer. The way they did is also brilliant, the acting is impeccable, except one scene all the scenes contains a humor and have a natural feel. It is really hard to believe that this movie was the first movie of the directors. I recommend you to watch it however don't expect Hollywood type motivations.