Begotten - 1989 - 5/10
This opens with a grisly self-inflicted disembowelment.
After which an unsettling rebirth / transfiguration occurs.
Scene shift to a vast pit focusing on the ritualized torture of a sacrificial victim.
Hell, I thought. Or the purgatory of damnation.
Stylized, experimental, avant-garde film.
Until the credits rolled, sporting a different story.
Which was beyond pretentious. Docked a point.