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Subconscious Cruelty is the impressive debut of Karim Hussain, now a renowned cinematographer. After six years of making, he fathered a visionary film poem that hardly bears comparison. A bunch of names such as Makavejev, Bava, Russell, Marins or Jodorowsky should give you an idea of what will (un)mercifully blow your mind. Brain candy? You wish! Four extremely disturbing stories, as beauteous as hideous, dissect the relationship between creation and destruction, desire and pain. This radical masterpiece is truly hair-raising, while the ingenious stylistic palette redefines the possibilities of the horror genre. (The Shockproof Film Festival)
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Utterly disgusting. I understand the attempt at a message, but I refuse to understand the way Mr Hussain transmits it. It did leave an impression, but I wish I hadn’t watched this film.
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I feel like I understand the intention of the filmmakers. I appreciate the visual trickery, although, at the same time, I have to add that this is the kind of movie that you can just kind of sit through, and once it is over, you are glad it was only eighty minutes long and did not have a two-hour running time. [The Shockproof Film Festival 2022]
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Although it may not seem like it, Subconscious Cruelty is trying to say something, and it has a certain telling value. It's not simply a matter of godless spewing of obscenities and disgusting things. There's something layered on top of itself here that manages to affect you, and at the same time it penetrates into your dark depths. We’ve never had a perverted idea? We’ve never wanted something that others would find strange? Karim Hussain reveals this darkness in his own way.
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