Benoît Poelvoorde, Jacqueline Poelvoorde-Pappaert, Nelly Pappaert
A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his craft. He expounds on art, music, nature, society, and life as he offs mailmen, pensioners, and random people. Slowly he begins i...( read more
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Directed by: André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde, Rémy Belvaux
Release Date: December 31, 1992
DVD Release Date: September 24, 2002
Stats: 1,535 reviews
Benoit Poeloorde's performance is terrifying, his unpredictability makes for very tense viewing. This is a dark comedy, filmed as a documentary (with a Dogma feel about it), in striking B/W contrast, with the cast eventually becoming part of the story. It's very clever, very sick...( read more)
A documentary film crew follows a serial killer as he makes his rounds and slowly begins to participate in his crimes. Worth seeing for provocation value, but ultimately the relentlessly unpleasant ironic sadism can't be justified by the filmmakers' meager insights about the med...( read more)
pretty good, you should really see this! Benoit is excellent in this movie, and even though the movie was made with a low budget, it shows how a movie can be great without a lot of money ;)
(Major Spoilers)
Meet Ben...
Ben likes to strangle women and repeatedly batter a man's head wide open on a sink. Ben likes to rape a woman while the husband is forced to watch. He likes to sc...( read more)
An extremely impressive neo-realist film, worthy of several repeated screenings. Punctuated with just the right amount of naturalistic dialogue and humour, and the image has a flawless ability to make events which are sometimes too serendipitous for narrative film work incredibly...( read more)
i know this movie is disturbing to most but i found it to be a laugh riot.. in a good way cause i believe this film was meant to be a dark comedy , which in a sense makes it more disturbing cause benoit basically is nonchalant
during the rape and murder scenes
well done mockume...( read more)
Funny and dark mockumentary with a touch of social commentary. Just the right length. Great acting too. A very poetic film. Reminded me of Clockwork.
Fucked. Pretty severly. But at the same time holds a lot of rather intense and interesting things below it's surface. The very fact that this was made on no money as a film school project kinda blows my mind.
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