Epidemic

Name: Epidemic
Genre: Drama, Horror
Released: November 14, 2003
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 66

2003

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Home Vision Entertainment (HVE) | Release Date: November 14, 2003

Summary: An experimental horror fantasy in which the story of a screenplay-in-the-making turns real.

Director: Lars von Trier

Genre(s): Drama, Horror

Runtime: 106 min

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Village Voice - J. Hoberman

Basically an experimental psychodrama, Epidemic has a pleasingly slapdash, underground quality that recalls early Fassbinder and Wenders -- although, with its cynical premise and frequent infusions of Wagner, it exudes the prankster snarkiness characteristic of von Trier. Read full review

Chicago Tribune - Robert K. Elder

Epidemic will never be confused with von Trier's great films. But it is an intriguing introduction to his later cinematic obsessions. Read full review

Chicago Reader - J.R. Jones

Aside from the Pirandellian games and some interplay of different film stocks there isn't much going on here, though von Trier rewards the patient with a strange and horrifying climax. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine - Maitland McDonagh

The scenes from Epidemic have the high-contrast look of a 1920s horror film, are in English (much of it badly dubbed) and feature images that are handsome and preposterous in equal parts -- they're amusing, and too stylized to be disturbing. Read full review

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