Psychopathia Sexualis (2005)
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23% of critics liked it
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21% of users liked it
(331 ratings)
The sexually salacious cases originally presented in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's notorious, turn-of-the-century medical text come to the screen in a complicated collection of erotic stories strung together by the curious tale of a manipulative doctor who may not always have his patient's best… More The sexually salacious cases originally presented in Richard von Krafft-Ebing's notorious, turn-of-the-century medical text come to the screen in a complicated collection of erotic stories strung together by the curious tale of a manipulative doctor who may not always have his patient's best interests in mind. From the story of a sexually repressed man who develops a troubling taste for human blood to the tale of a homosexual seeking to "cure" his condition, a masochist who enlists the aid of two corseted prostitutes in making his wildest dreams come true, and a lesbian who finds her sexual urges too powerful to resist when hired to tutor a sexually adventurous female student, the controversial case-studies that stunned Victorian England in the early years of the 1900s are recreated for the camera almost a century later to show just how little has changed in the realm of human sexuality. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Critic Reviews
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Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Lugubrious to the extreme of unintended comedy, the movie suggests a regional dinner theater production of a late- ' 80s Peter Greenaway film.
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Joe Leydon, Variety
Psychopathia Sexualis seems both plodding and snickering in its almost comically tepid rendering of masochism, homosexuality,
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Ted Fry, Seattle Times
Psychopathia Sexualis isn't sexy enough to be soft porn. Neither will it cause an excess of cerebral stimulation.
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John Anderson, Newsday
What Woods achieves in his arch, velvet-cushioned vignettes is a sense of the subjects being reduced to symptom and diagnosis.
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Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Not even necrophilia and the imaginative deployment of leeches can relieve this exercise in unrelenting dullness.
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Cast
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Jane Bass
as Mother
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Bryan Davis
as Dr. Goudron
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Veronika Duerr
as Annabel Lindstrom
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Sandra L. Hughes
as Madame
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Ted Manson
as Richard von Krafft-Ebing
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Daniel May
as J.H./Jonathan
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Rob Nixon
as Caglios the Puppeteer
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Lisa Paulsen
as Lydia
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Daniel Pettrow
as Xavier
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Rachel Sorsa
as Veteran Prostitute
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Tracy Martin
as Beleagured Prostitute
- David Sanders
- David Weber
- Jason Hodges
- Kristi Casey
- Patrick L. Parker
- Roger Foster
- Steven Westdahl
- Byran Davis
- Zoë Cooper
