• Director(s)

    Elias Merhige

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    03/11/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    122m

Film

The Begotten Cycle

sexual violence, strong gore, necrophilia, nudity

Themes of death, rebirth and mythology combine in this compilation of subversive and surreal experimental US films which contain a sustained and gory disembowelment, as well as disturbing scenes of necrophilia and rape.…

Themes of death, rebirth and mythology combine in this compilation of subversive and surreal experimental US films which contain a sustained and gory disembowelment, as well as disturbing scenes of necrophilia and rape.

Content Advice(May contain spoilers)

threat and horror

sexual violence and sexual threat

injury detail

nudity

disturbing images

violence

language

sex

  • Director(s)

    Elias Merhige

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Release date

    03/11/2023

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    122m

sexual violence, strong gore, necrophilia, nudity
Classified Date:
11/09/2023
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Leeds Film
threat and horror
A menacing figure appears behind a nude humanoid alien and tears her chest open, revealing a white gaping hole of light from which tentacles emerge.
sexual violence and sexual threat
During a prolonged scene, a group of men brutally sexually assault and murder a woman, resulting in sight of her mutilated dead body.
injury detail
There is close-up focus on a disembowelment wherein a pair of hands are shown repeatedly stabbing at a stomach and pulling out internal organs. This is presented in a stylised and ambiguous manner in black-and-white. Bloody viscera copiously trickles down a dead man’s leg in the aftermath. Other moments include a man vomiting up organs, as well as characters collecting mutilated remains of dead bodies and burying them in the ground.
nudity
There is prolonged and sustained sight of male and female genital nudity.
disturbing images
There is a scene of necrophilia in which a woman masturbates a dead man's penis in order to conceive a child.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.

  • Classified date

    11/09/2023

  • Language

    English