Underplayed Gems

Subconscious Cruelty (2000)

Subconscious Cruelty poster
Directed by
Karim Hussain
Genre
horror film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 15m
Rated
18
Rating
4.7 of 10 from 80 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This Canadian horror film presents a series of loosely connected vignettes exploring bodily horror and psychological dread. It was shot over several years and uses an anthology structure to create a disjointed nightmare-like experience.

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What happens

Subconscious Cruelty is a 2000 Canadian independent experimental anthology horror film written and directed by Karim Hussain and produced by Mitch Davis. It was filmed over a long period of time, from February 1994 to December 1999, and debuted at the Festival de Cine de Sitges in Sitges, Spain, on October 12, 2000. The film went on to screen at several other festivals, including the Stockholm International Film Festival and Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival before being released on DVD on April 18, 2005. The film was first released in Canada on Friday, April 13, 2001. It screened at Cinema Du Parc in Montreal, Quebec, Canada for two weeks from April 13 to the 28th of 2001. The film was screened again at the same theater for a single weekend in November 2001, and for one final time in June 2003. Since then, it has not had a public screening in Canada. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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