A horror movie testing two approaches to running an insane asylum - absolute freedom versus control and punishment - within the context of a world that combines the worst of both. Jean Berlot, a young man subject to a nightmare of being forced into a straitjacket by two orderlies, is befriended by a marquis. At the marquis's estate, Jean witnesses a black Mass, buries someone alive, and is invited to try preventive therapy. He's willing to enter a sanatorium because he believ... (Full plot summary below)
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A horror movie testing two approaches to running an insane asylum - absolute freedom versus control and punishment - within the context of a world that combines the worst of both. Jean Berlot, a young man subject to a nightmare of being forced into a straitjacket by two orderlies, is befriended by a marquis. At the marquis's estate, Jean witnesses a black Mass, buries someone alive, and is invited to try preventive therapy. He's willing to enter a sanatorium because he believes he can rescue a young woman from there who has told him that the real director and staff of the clinic are locked in the basement. Jean conspires with her to set them free: the horrors have only begun.
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| CinematicalChristopher CampbellWickedly funny and astonishingly conceived, the film is a nonstop cavalcade of shocks, surprises and enchantments. I loved every minute of it. |
| Premiere MagazineAaron HillisSvankmajer's fifth and most accessible feature to date... Lunacy is exactly what it's called, raucously inventive and completely out of its mind. |
| New York TimesManohla DargisMr. Svankmajer’s provocations skew toward the intellectual and the shivery rather than the pop and the visceral, and at his best, he doesn’t just get under your skin, but also deep in your head, too. Here, unfortunately, he does neither, despite some marvelous stop-motion animated sequences involving a literal moveable feast of severed animal tongues, loose eyeballs and errant brains. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonThese ideas are twisted enough that they still hold a certain kind of interest. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsWhile Lunacy leaves you with the impression that Svankmajer is more expressive with cutlets than he is with his atypically human-dominated dreamscape, some of the images are doozies. |
| Eye for FilmAnton BitelBy turns absurdly funny, disturbingly dissolute, unnervingly claustrophobic, and caustically misanthropic, Lunacy offers viewers the sort of punishing pleasures that so many of its characters seem, in their different ways, to seek. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerBill WhiteThe film is imaginative but ugly, with bodily functions an unending source for grotesque and revolting imagery. |
| Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenFor all its visual surprises and visceral shocks, Lunacy is still the kind of film that is easier to admire than it is to actually like. |
| Los Angeles Daily NewsBob StraussOnly a master filmmaker could make such a fantastically sustained voyage into the Land of Questioning Reality, God and Propriety, and everything else we try to organize our sensibilities around. |
| L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorLunacy feels programmatic, the repetitive working through of an idea that had me checking my watch. |
