The Atrocity Exhibition

1998

Action / Drama / Horror

11
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 499 499

literary adaptation

Plot summary

A doctor in a mental research institution is driven insane by the spectacle of the horrors of the twentieth century.

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938.27 MB
960*720
English 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 1
1.7 GB
1428*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles cn   us  
24 fps
1 hr 42 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dongillette-65716 1 / 10

Pretentious trash

No idea how anyone ever got financing for this masturbatory, pretentious, disjointed absolute garbage of a film.Loosely interwoven chapters, all dealing (or rather dancing around) death and sex, in an effort to make you believe there's some deep thinking going on here when actually, it's just a director who wants to THINK he's a deep thinker when he's a hack.I can only imagine what a catastrophe the set must have been with the inane pseudo-psychedelic nonsense going on not only on screen, but behind the scenes.Most probably the worst film I've seen in many years and I've no clue how it rates this highly.
Reviewed by p-summerhayes 1 / 10

High hopes dashed

As a long-time Ballard fan I was looking forward to seeing this on DVD release. The book is the densest but also most oblique setting out of his ideas. How could this be captured on film? The director tries too hard to remain faithful to the structure of the novel(strange that this should be a criticism but film is just so different - I was left wondering what a more straight-forward narrative would have brought, compare with 'The Unforgettable Lightness Of Being' which was a successful adaptation).What really damns the film though is the truly appalling acting throughout the film. Actors read lines that they obviously don't understand and make Ballard's intriguing prose seem quite trite. I recognise that Ballardian characters are often two dimensional - more cipher than flesh-and-blood people - but how did the actors manage to reduce the dimensions further?! The direction was generally dull and plodding, like something I would have seen at the ICA back in the 80s, ponderousness masquerading for insight.Back to the book ...........
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