Synopsis
Grotesquely surreal offering charting three male generations of the same bizarre family, including a pervert who constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater, and a passionate embalmer.
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Cast
- Csaba CzeneMorosgoványi Vendel
- Gergely TrócsányiKálmán Balatony
- Marc BischoffLajos Balatony
- István GyuriczaHadnagy
- Piroska MolnárHadnagyné
- Gábor MátéÖreg Balatony Kálmán
- Géza D. HegedűsDr. Regõczy Andor
- István HunyadkürthyJenõ bá
- Zoltán KoppányMiszlényi Béla
- Adél StanczelAczél Gizi
Recommandations
- 100
Film Threat
Only for fans of the bizarre and certainly not for those with even a faintly weak stomach. But for those meeting both qualifications: Welcome to a devious little nightmare. - 100
Los Angeles Times
A brilliant, often grotesquely bizarre allegory on life in Hungary from World War II to the present. - 100
The New York Times
Belongs to a school of Central European surrealism that marries nightmarish horror with formal beauty. - 90
L.A. Weekly
All this helps to shape Pálfi’s crudely bombastic but impressive philosophical view of the body as landscape and art, a source of personal discovery, wonder and annihilation. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
For a film so pessimistic about mankind, Taxidermia erupts with some light-hearted technical inspiration: Cinematographer Gergely Poharnok's compositions are wickedly hilarious, while production designer Adrien Asztalos' concoctions are peculiarly gross. - 90
Variety
Taxidermia sets a benchmark for body horror in the cinema. - 67
The A.V. Club
Frequently funny, for those who can stomach it. - 60
Empire
Keeping it surreal has never been so nauseating and, at times, hilarious.
