Man Bites Dog (1992, Benoît Poelvoorde, Jacqueline Poelvoorde-Pappaert, Nelly Pappaert, Hector Pappaert) – Classic Movie Review 10,951

Unluckily for us, Benoît Poelvoorde plays a thieving psychopathic serial killer called Ben, who takes a camera crew around with him to film his murders, in the 1992 Belgian satirical black comedy mockumentary film Man Bites Dog [C’Est Arrivé prés de Chez Vous].

This sick, odious splatter movie, played for laughs, should induce vomit among audiences and make the world a sadder place. Laugh? I didn’t. There’s a scene of gang rape at gunpoint followed by mutilations, but this isn’t even the worst of it. Aesthetically it is also a very ugly and scrappy looking film that looks as nasty as it is.

Jacqueline Poelvoorde-Pappaert plays Ben’s Mother, Nelly Pappaert plays Ben’s Grandmother, and Hector Pappaert plays Ben’s Grandfather.

Man Bites Dog was the winner of three prizes at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival: the SACD Award for Best Feature at Critics’ Week, the International Critics’ Prize and the Special Jury Jeunesse Prize.

Man Bites Dog was the number one film in its native Belgium for four weeks.

Directors: Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde.

Writers: Rémy Belvaux (story), Rémy Belvaux (screenplay), André Bonzel (screenplay), Benoît Poelvoorde (screenplay), and Vincent Tavier (screenplay).

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