“[BEGOTTEN] has a strange, almost forbidden quality, as though you are watching secret footage of a shamanistic cult.”
—Midnight Cinema Junkyard

“Merhige’s story symbolizes what humanity could become, or rather what it always has been.”
—Collider

“Subversive” was coined for cinema like this. Sublime — an indelible pileup of grainy grotesqueries reaching toward the heavens. A robed deity commits suicide, bringing forth Mother Earth, who leads her son on a pilgrimage beset by indescribable horrors. “A metaphysical splatter film” (Premiere) from director E. Elias Merhige. “Nobody will get through BEGOTTEN without being marked” (Time Magazine).