Release Date: August 9, 2006 (NY)
Studio: Zeitgeist Films
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Screenwriter: Jan Svankmajer
Starring: Pavel Liska, Jan Triska, Anna Geislerová, Jaroslav Dusek, Martin Huba, Pavel Nový, Stano Danciak, Jirí Krytinár, Jan Svankmajer
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: Not Available
Official Website: ZeitgeistFilms.com
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Plot Summary: The latest provocation from surrealist master Jan Svankmajer ("Little Otik") is loosely based on two short stories by Edgar Allen Poe and inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade. In nineteenth-century France (albeit one full of deliberate anachronisms) a young man, Jean Berlot, is plagued by nightmares in which he is dragged off to a madhouse. On the journey back from his mother's funeral he is invited by a Marquis he meets at lunch to spend the night in his castle. There Berlot witnesses a blasphemous orgy and a 'therapeutic' funeral. Berlot tries to flee but the Marquis insists on helping him conquer his fears and takes his guest to a surrealistic lunatic asylum where the patients have complete freedom and the staff are locked up behind bars. Described by Svankmajer himself in a prologue to the film as a "philosophical horror film," "Lunacy" combines live action and stop-motion, sex and violence, grand guignol terror and gallows humor, and a lot of animated meat.

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