The Green Elephant (1999)

Original title

Зелёный слоник

Directed by

Svetlana Baskova

Genre

horror film, splatter film, exploitation film, art film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Russia

Runtime

1h 26m

Rated

18+

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 103 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two Russian officers are locked in a military prison cell. They deal with their isolation through brutality and torture.

bleakclaustrophobicbrutalunsettlinggrimrawdisturbingvisceral

What happens

The Green Elephant (Russian: Зелёный слоник, romanized: Zelyonyy slonik, also known as Green Elephant Calf) is a 1999 Russian exploitation arthouse horror film directed by Svetlana Baskova. The movie received a limited theatrical release in Russia, as the film's violent imagery and graphic language made it unfit for being distributed through the mainstream film circuit. The film was shown at the 2005 International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the program commented that the movie was "even more urgent because of the escalation of the war in Chechnya and growing criminality in the Russian army". The film stars Sergey Pakhomov and Vladimir Epifantsev, and follows two Russian officers locked in a military prison cell that must deal with "social and psychological problems" in their isolation through brutality and torture. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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