Subconscious Cruelty

A technically very well done arthouse exploitationfilm. The violence is extremly brutal and at times the visuals are mesmerizing but even in 1999 the religious subjects seem outdated and uniteresting for someone without a religious backround. Still the monologs surrounding the subject are at times clever and entertaining. The least violent part, the outdoors part, is the one that captured my adoration the most.

Top badass moment? At the start - I bet a trip to the optician with that woman is fun. This is a film (well four shorts sort of stuck together) with no plot that’s just been designed to shock people; it reminded me of Steve Jones swearing on the Today programme. The special effects were pretty good and you have to admire the actors’ willingness, but as entertainment? If you really want to be horrified just watch any news broadcast, as that's real. No cats, chainsaws or decapitations.

Far, far less radical, inventive and artistic than it thinks it is. The film will attack you with a barrage of disgusting images, supposedly linked together by some deep meaning or other, but unless you're very easily impressed by the profundity of gory sexual torture, onanism and blasphemy, your disgust is unlikely to save you from your boredom.

In the extreme film genre, it's very rare to find a film as well-written and thought provoking as "Subconscious Cruelty" and one that doesn't exist purely to shock. Packed with symbolism and imagery, and extreme sadistic violence (featuring a scene that makes "that scene" in Antichrist look incredibly tame), the film breaks essentially all the taboos in the genre. If you don't do thinking, it's worth a watch to see Jesus get anally jousted by a tree branch.

Extremely unpleasant. A great metaphor on the subconscious cruelty of life...

The first offensive movies that really left me speechless..so beyond weird..its art torture....what a great movie

an exploitation film at it's best.