Brand Upon the Brain!

The film is a singular achievement.

It's an astonishing film: weird, obsessed, drawing on subterranean impulses, hypnotic.

A feverishly imaginative Freudian vampire film from Guy Maddin, is like a silent-movie serial by Louis Feuillade or an improbable collaboration between writer Oscar Wilde and photographer Man Ray.

A feverishly imaginative Freudian vampire film from Guy Maddin, is like a silent-movie serial by Louis Feuillade or an improbable collaboration between writer Oscar Wilde and photographer Man Ray.

Audacious, hypnotic and utterly breathtaking.

It's an astonishing film: weird, obsessed, drawing on subterranean impulses, hypnotic.

Not many people are making silent horror serials these days, but Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin pushes his love of lurid melodrama to the limit in his latest demented treat, Brand Upon the Brain!

Delirious, ingenious, often very funny and strangely touching film.

The result is giddy, exciting and hilarious, not quite like any artistic experience you've ever had.

Delirious, ingenious, often very funny and strangely touching film.