Epidemic (1987)
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 6
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 4
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Director Lars von Trier stars in a double role in this experimental horror fantasy. He pretentiously portrays a director who spends a year and a half preparing to make a horror film with help from a government grant. In the second part, he plays a young physician who unknowingly has a plague virus planted in his medical bag. Fantasy sequences depict the possible horror that could come if the virus is unleashed on the public. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
Jan 1, 1987 Wide
Sep 21, 2004
Vitagraph Films
Cast
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Lars von Trier
The Film Director -
Niels Vørsel
The Screenwriter -
Udo Kier
Udo Kier -
Olaf Ussing
Pathologist -
Ole Ernst
Orthopedist -
Michael Simpson
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All Critics (7) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (4) | DVD (6)
Will never be confused with von Trier's great films. But it is an intriguing introduction to his later cinematic obsessions.
Top CriticUneven as von Trier can be, Epidemic is among his better and most revealing movies.
As meta-doodles go, this one needs better gags
feels thrown together, as though von Trier is working at the mercy of available material, weaving it into a whole as he goes
It's an obsessed film that is too murky to be great cinema, but interesting enough to remain intriguing.
In keeping with his generally perverse filmmaking aesthetic, von Trier systematically does everything he can to alienate horror enthusiasts.
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