“MOVIE PICK
fun, scary, and tragic”
—L.A. Weekly
“thoroughly modern, utterly disturbing …
but there’s real heart and empathy here too.”
—Kimber Meyers, Los Angeles Times
“American indie horror king Larry Fessenden is just as much a pulp fiction aficionado
as he is a neo-gothic romantic: his doomed heroes and sorrowful monsters
are all messy, small people whose apparent sense of compassion
is often dwarfed by their titanic egos and their general cosmic insignificance.”
—Simon Abrams, Roger Ebert.com
“If Mr. fessenden had a gospel to preach it would be about
the virtues of low-budget, intellectually rigorous, topical, mayhem-rich movies.
Depraved is a perfect example… delightfully gritty, sometimes gruesome…”
—John Anderson, The Wall street Journal
“Builds empathy for its exploited creature.
Beginning in lovemaking and ending in loneliness,
the movie has an unexpected poignancy”
—Jeanette Catsoulis, New York Times
“Moving and frightening and exciting in its intelligence”
—Michael Gingold, Rue Morgue Magazine
“serious but not pretentious”
—John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter
“a triumphant piece of outsider cinema
which will sear itself onto the consciousness like Promethean fire.”
—Jenny Kermode, Eye for Film
“diagnoses the rot of our era through
the shifting personalities and power dynamics of solipsistic men.”
—Steven Scaife, Slant
“CERTIFIED FRESH”
—Rotten Tomatoes
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