Megalomaniac

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Megalomaniac

Released Sep 8, 2023

1h 40m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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Martha and Félix are the children of the Butcher of Mons, a notorious Belgian serial killer from the 1990s. Unstable and riddled with insecurities, Martha lives vicariously through social media. Her brother, crushed by the family legacy, takes over their father's killings. Harassed and violently assaulted at work, the docile Martha falls into madness and goes through the looking glass into the strange and terrifying world inhabited by her brother.

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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

It’s a tough but well-made film that raises provocative questions that are certain to make everyone in the audience uncomfortable, as they should.

Rated: 3/4

Sep 27, 2023

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Meagan Navarro

Bloody Disgusting

Writer/Director Karim Ouelhaj crafts extreme confrontational horror that aims to offend as much as it does evoke wrath and societal reflection. It’s at once compelling and uncomfortable to watch.

Rated: 3.5/5

Jul 25, 2022

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Wendy Ide

Screen International

While it’s undoubtedly an effectively nasty horror picture, linking this inventively unpleasant scenario to an actual case which claimed the lives of five women is perhaps in questionable taste.

Jul 24, 2022

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Sarah Vincent

Cambridge Day

The film contains graphic depictions of violence, rape and revenge, emblematic of New Extreme films – the European genre that makes American torture porn feel genteel and restrained.

Rated: 3/4

Sep 30, 2023

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Bobby LePire

Film Threat

Schumacher owns her role in a way that is both empathetic and frustrating. While this is an unnerving, uncomfortable watch, it is also profound.

Rated: 8.5/10

Sep 15, 2023

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Dan Scully

ScullyVision

The thematics wrenched from this profoundly upsetting story speak on the self-perpetuating nature of violence, while simultaneously questioning the dark, albeit human catharsis achieved by revenge.

Sep 13, 2023

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Shep P

Didn't make any sense until I looked it up and read what it was about after. just a bunch of torture porn and gore for sake of gore.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

07/17/25

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Audience Member

Vile, disgusting, evil movie. I know, that's what it's supposed to be. Almost like a real life "Terrorfier." Any normal person, stay far away from this one.¹

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

04/11/25

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Rich C

Wild film! Didn't quite wrap everything up for me. But well worth the watch.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/17/25

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Jacob B

Great psychological horror film. It constantly plays against any preconceived expectations.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/01/25

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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 out of 5 stars

01/28/25

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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 out of 5 stars

12/02/24

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Synopsis

Martha and Félix are the children of the Butcher of Mons, a notorious Belgian serial killer from the 1990s. Unstable and riddled with insecurities, Martha lives vicariously through social media. Her brother, crushed by the family legacy, takes over their father's killings. Harassed and violently assaulted at work, the docile Martha falls into madness and goes through the looking glass into the strange and terrifying world inhabited by her brother.

Director: Karim Ouelhaj
Producer: Florence Saâdi, Nicolas George, Karim Ouelhaj
Screenwriter: Karim Ouelhaj
Distributor: Dark Star Pictures
Production Co: Les Films du Carré
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: French
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 8, 2023, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 26, 2023
Runtime: 1h 40m

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