Wisconsin Death Trip [1999]

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The Victorian Way Of Death.

The Devil's Playground

NOT REALLY MUCH HAS CHANGED

Cursed Or A Typical Town?

In the midst of life, we are in Death Trip...

Wisconsin Death Trip [1999]
Starring: Ian Holm , Jeffrey Golden , Jo Vukelich , Marcus Monroe , and Marilyn White
Director: James Marsh
Manufacturer: Tartan Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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The Victorian Way Of Death........2006-08-21

The concept for the film is thin. The director appears to have had an idea to reproduce the images C19th photogrophers made of the dead for grieving relatives to display in their overstuffed parlours.These photo's are striking and the images are cinematic but it's all been tacked on to news reports from late C19th newspapers about the events in one town. This was probably fairly typical in the millenial atmosphere and decadence of the end of the century and not an excetional case, though it is presented that way. If you have a taste for the macarbre then it is worth watching but there is no conventional plot or charachter development. Just pretty pictures, the title is also cool, obviously.

The Devil's Playground.......2005-06-24

This brilliantly directed and edited film deals with the town of Black River Falls in Wisconsin, America, from the numerous unexplained murders and suicides from 1890 - 1900, to the troubled lives of Black River Falls residents of the present day. No explanation is given for the deaths in this particular part of the world, but what exact explanation is there? Could it ever happen in the UK?

NOT REALLY MUCH HAS CHANGED.......2004-09-10

Not really much has changed from the turn of the 19th to the 21st - a teenage killer who has no remorse or comprehension of what he has done, drugs, alcholism, abandoned children, domestic violence, infidelity they all feature prominantly in this black and white, (cut with color scenes of the modern town) film.
However it isn't all that - there are some eerie and uncomfortable moments, such as the 14 year old bride and her 63 year old husband, dead children and drowned people.
A good film, not for the sensative - but I have to give it four stars because of the highly irritating and barely inaudible whispering voice that comes on during the asylum scenes - I for one could have done well without that, it didn't add to it in anyway and was just irritating especially since you have to turn up the damn volume to hear it.

Cursed Or A Typical Town?.......2004-06-21

It is the late 1890's in the town of Black River Falls, Wisconsin and everything is going to hell. There is a diphtheria epidemic that wipes out the children and a long lasting economic depression. Soon after, many of the residents lost their grip on reality and commit suicide and murder in some bizarre and startling ways. James Marsh's documentary pulls the viewer in with these macabre tales and underscores them with color reenactments of some of the events. These reenactments, however, tend to take away from the mysteriousness of the story and keep reminding us that we are over a century away from this event and this is, after all, just a documentary. If only Marsh had kept it all black and white and interspersed more of the real photographs of the townspeople (Black River Falls had its own resident photographer), then it might seem more eerie. It also raises the question that this might not have been that unusual during this period of time in rural America. Black River Falls just happened to have well documented these events. Still, as a reflection of a time when life was hard and times were tough, Marsh succeeds in finding some truly strange occurrences. It's almost as if a curse was placed on this one small town. Iam Holm narrates and his foreboding voice is perfect.

In the midst of life, we are in Death Trip..........2004-05-25

Haunting, sinister, tragic, beautifully macabre, James Marsh has created an unforgettable work of art in his documentary, "Wisconsin Death Trip". Themes of infanticide, madness, suicide, murder and violent gun-related activity that would make the most cynical paperback chronicler of the doings of serial killers think twice, abound in this stately and exquisitely -imagined film. In one small community,we are presented with the hardships and sufferings of the people through the accounts in their local newspaper. They become vibrant, real, characters who live for a modern sensibility in dramatised vignettes, whispered details from the director of the oft-frequented madhouse, and in powerful photographs preserved from the period. The music contributes to the air of spirited melancholy, ranging from opera to Appalachian melody. Present day scenes point up the undying weirdness still to be found in an outwardly wholesome and idyllic setting- "a great place to bring up children", yes indeed, but also a place where they regularly met with an early demise.
Required viewing, and incidentally, a perfect present for the Goth in your life.....

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