Megalomaniac

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Rich C Wild film! Didn't quite wrap everything up for me. But well worth the watch. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/17/25 Full Review Tomaz B I don't think I really get the point of the movie. There's some spoilers in my review, so ignore it if you have the intention to watch the movie. It started strong with an interesting premise. A father traumatizing his child, what could be better? Then we fast-forward to Martha working as a cleaning lady at some factory, where she's not treated right, like not at all. She's raped on multiple occasions. Martha also lives with some weirdo named Felix. I think that's her brother? Anyways, they have a weird dynamic going on and as Martha goes through multiple sexual abuses at work, she slowly descends into madness. Which is when I started to realize that Felix and Martha are actually children of the serial killer seen at the beginning of the movie. Here's some questions that I struggle to answer to myself: 1. Why incest? Like why? What was the point of that? 2. Why the hell would Martha's three coworkers accept an invitation to a dinner at her place? 3. Why did that psychiatrist, or whatever she was, have the hero complex when she saw a chained girl? I'd be running out of that house as quickly as I came in. The movie started and ended in a very interesting way, everything in between was quite boring. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/28/25 Full Review Hugo S Two siblings perpetuate the murders of their serial-killer father, the notorious "Butcher of Mons" (one of the most prolific assassins in Belgium's history). "Megalomaniac" explores the inner demons of both siblings while they carry on the dark legacy of their progenitor. An agonising trip to the disturbing minds of two characters who inherited nothing more than pure evil! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/02/24 Full Review Audience Member Artsy European horror with doses of metaphor heavier than gore but certainly with its share of violence, particularly in the final act. The film is fairly restrained compared to other films in the New French Extremity genre (this film is Belgian, but in the French language), but it is nonetheless quite transgressive in ways beyond just violence (you’ll see what I mean with one of the sex scenes, if you watch it). Dark and grim with slow pacing; don’t expect an American-type slasher, but if you are up for the show of suffering then it will absolutely deliver on that - plenty of suffering here to go around! The ending was not very good IMO, especially considering how promising it was, which is the main reason I ultimately decided to not give it 4 stars, but only 3.5 stars. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/04/24 Full Review prawnda s i am only taking a star off because it's a difficult watch, but if you like horror and can handle some scenes of graphic violence/abuse, then it's a very interesting watch. it's not exactly "torture p*rn" like some people might assume when the reviews compare it to hostel, because it is really doing it's own thing, and all of the violence makes more sense by the end. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/26/24 Full Review Damon D Great acting but relentlessly grim to the point of being a bit absurdly funny by the end. There's really no one to root for here and I find it hard to recommend to anyone but the most diehard horror/gore fans. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/23/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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