THE BIG HIT IS AMAZING!...MY BLU RAY HAS BEEN WATCHED 8 TIMES EASILY,THATS NOT COUNTING ALL HE TIME I WATCHED IT ON DVD AND VHS AS WELL..I HAVE OWNED IT ON ALL THREE FORMATS OVER THE YEARS.
Yeah that's fair enough, I understand that. My experience with the movie is the complete opposite of how others I know have viewed it. I remember a few years back, watching it for the first time at a film festival. What had started out as a full auditorium, was down to 5 people when the movie finished, almost everyone had walked out. Even my group of 10 was down to 2 by end. I had not heard of anyone liking it until I came here. There was even a derogatory piece in the local newspaper the next day.
Even now when I recommend, The Lobster or The Favourite or The Killing of a Sacred Deer. When people hear who directed them, frustratingly, turn their noses up because of Dogtooth (Yes, some are that small-minded)
I had almost the same experience with Force Majeure(2014) a year later
i think this is one of the cases we can point to where a director has found an audience, & it's not a broad audience necessarily, but it's an enthusiastic one. i definitely wouldn't recommend dogtooth to my mom or my la la land-loving sister, but if i meet a guy who has a taste for the absurd & quirky & things that are a little evil, i would recommend it with alacrity.
Oh, that would be Michael Mann's red-headed stepchild, The Keep (1983).
I mean, yes, it was definitely butchered in the editing room, and the final result can't reasonably be called "good" in any meaningful sense of that word... but I'd still argue there's something weirdly brilliant about that whole glorious mess.