Subconscious Cruelty

Apr 13, 2001

1h 32m

★ 4.7

Overview

A surrealistic anthology of horror films; four segments structured as an intense fever dream...

Genres

Horror

Crime

Production Companies

Infliction Films

Subconscious Cruelty Trailers

Cast

Male Performer (segment "Rebirth") / Gloved Hand (segment "Right Brain / Martyrdom")

Mitch Davis

Businessman (segment "Right Brain / Martyrdom") / Doppelganger (segment "Right Brain / Martyrdom")

Christopher Piggins

Woman On Slab (segment "Ovarian Eyeball")

Sophie Lauzière

Hand (segment "Ovarian Eyeball")

Anne-Marie Belley

Sister (segment "Human Larvae")

Brea Asher

Brother (segment "Human Larvae")

Ivaylo Founev

Lover (segment "Human Larvae")

Eric Levasseur

Girl In Photo (segment "Human Larvae")

Janis Higgins

Female Performer (segment "Rebirth")

Nadia Simaani

Female Performer (segment "Rebirth")

Anna Berlyn

Female Performer (segment "Rebirth")

Nancy Simard

Male Performer (segment "Rebirth")

Sean Spuruey

When exotic dancer Cassie happens upon a drug deal gone bad, she steals the money and the drugs thinking she now has the funds to make her dream of moving to Paris come true. But waiting three days to get her passport proves tougher than she thought when everyone she knows from her ex-boyfriend, to her drug addict boss, to her lesbian lover, to the rightful owner of the money decides to get in on the action.

5.7

Deranged

Feb 2, 1974

A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies, he misses her, and a year later digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and begins robbing graves to get materials to patch her up, and inevitably begins looking for fresher sources of materials. Based loosely on the true story of Ed Gein.

6.2

Star of David: Beauty Hunting

Oct 27, 1979

The film portrays the life of Tatsuya, a young man of proper descent whose outward respectability hides his urges for rape and torture. This handsome rapist seduces women, then brings them to the basement of the mansion he inherited from his well-to-do parents, where he indulges in lengthy sessions of sado-sexual violence. Based on manga by Masaaki Sato.

4.8

Schoolgirls in Chains

Jan 1, 1973

Two deranged brothers, who are under the domineering influence of their crazed mother, kidnap young girls and keep them captive in chains in their basement, where they subject them to depraved "games" that often end in torture and murder.

6.4

The Transgressor

Feb 16, 1974

18 years after the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns start torturing her. She also has to deal with a lecherous archbishops and a lesbian mother superior.

5.4

Turkey Shoot

Mar 25, 1982

In the near future, after an unspecified holocaust, survivors are herded into prison camps. There, they are hunted for sport by the leaders of the camp. Paul, one of the newest prisoners, is determined not to go down as quietly as the others.

4.1

Chaos

Aug 10, 2005

Two girls heading to a rave take a detour to score some drugs, only to find themselves brutalised and violated by a psychotic gang.

6.3

Seven Days

Jun 22, 2010

Like many happy people, Bruno Hamel is leading an uneventful life until one afternoon, when his daughter is raped and murdered. When the murderer is arrested, a terrible project germinates in Bruno's darkened mind. He plans to capture the "monster" and make him pay for his crime.

3.7

Reunion

Nov 26, 2015

An unstable mental patient goes on an overnight rampage to terrorize an ex-rock star and his friends, only to discover she is linked to him in mysterious ways.

6.7

Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

Nov 21, 2003

British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial.

4.6

Howling IV: The Original Nightmare

Nov 1, 1988

An author who was sent to the town Drakho, because of a nervous breakdown, gets wound up in a mystery revolving around demons and werewolves. She starts seeing ghosts and dismisses them as her own imagination, but when they turn out to be real she becomes suspicious of the odd town and of its past.

6.5

The Disappearance of Alice Creed

Sep 12, 2009

A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money.

7.5

Undisputed III: Redemption

Apr 17, 2010

Russian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. No longer the feared prison fighter he was, he has declined so far that he is now good only for cleaning toilets. But when a new prison fight tournament begins - an international affair, matching the best fighters from prisons around the globe, enticing them with the promise of freedom for the winner - Boyka must reclaim his dignity and fight for his position in the tournament.

6.7

Fire of Conscience

Apr 1, 2010

A police detective must solve a brutal murder to prove his partner's innocence and unearth the truth behind Hong Kong's police force. The investigation brings him to an unlikely collaboration with an inspector from the Narcotics Bureau, whose motives may not be what they seem.

3.3

Love Disease

Jan 6, 2018

Young single mother Emiko (Saori Seto) uses factory worker Shinnosuke (Amane Okayama) for money. They met through an online dating website and Shinnosuke is completely in love with her. Meanwhile, Emiko's ex-husband is demanding money from her.

6.2

He Took His Skin Off for Me

Oct 18, 2014

A simple, domestic love story about a man who takes his skin off for his girlfriend, and why it probably wasn't the best idea...