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Wisconsin Death Trip [1999] [DVD]

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Actors: Ian Holm, Jeffrey Golden, Jo Vukelich, Marcus Monroe, Marilyn White
Directors: James Marsh
Writers: James Marsh, Michael Lesy
Producers: James Marsh, Anthony Wall, Carl Hirschi, Maureen A. Ryan, Nancy Abraham
Format: Anamorphic, PAL
Language English
Region: All Regions
Number of discs: 1
Classification: 15
Studio: Palisades Tartan
DVD Release Date: 24 May 2004
Run Time: 75 minutes

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

ASIN: B0001XLWVM
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 23,411 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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A most extraordinary experience awaits those with a taste for the strange and the bizarre in the small town of Black River Falls. Rocked by an inexplicable confluence of events in the late 1890s, this sleepy Wisconsin town generated some of the most unlikely news reports and stories ever told. Previously harmless residents – including children – commit a series of gruesome, violent murders. Sightings of ghosts and reports of haunting and possession run rife. An epidemic sweeps through the town and takes with it some of the residents’ newest born sons and daughters. Extreme cases of paranoia, insanity and delirium plague the townsfolk. And the population finds itself terrorized by a cocaine-snorting madwoman with a taste for smashing windows.

Based on documented accounts and narrated by award-winning British actor Ian Holm, this haunting and surreal film beautifully evokes the otherworldly spirit and wayward madness of a time and place marked by an altogether unreal set of circumstances. Bizarre. But true.

Special Features

Feature length audio commentary by Director and Director of Photography
Midwestern Gothic: The Making of "Wisconsin Death Trip"
Photo gallery
Deleted scenes
4-page booklet with Tom Dawson film notes
Tartan trailer reel

DVD Technical Information:

Aspect Ratio: Anamorphic Widescreen
Running Time: 75 mins approx.
Region Code: 0 (all)
Language: English
PAL
Disc Format: DVD-9

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3.0 out of 5 stars Cursed Or A Typical Town?, 21 Jun 2004

By	Martin A Hogan "Marty From SF" (San Francisco, CA. (Hercules)) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Wisconsin Death Trip [DVD] [2000] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)

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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars In the midst of life, we are in Death Trip..., 26 May 2004

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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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3.0 out of 5 stars The Victorian Way Of Death., 21 Aug 2006

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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.

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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... Read more

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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,... Read more

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