Man Bites Dog (French: C’est arrivé près de chez vous, literally “It Happened Near Your Home”) is a 1992 French-language Belgian black comedy crime mockumentary film written, produced and directed by Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoît Poelvoorde, who are also the film’s co-editor, cinematographer and lead actor respectively.
The film follows a crew of filmmakers following a serial killer, recording his horrific crimes for a documentary they are producing.
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Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times highly praised the film upon its release, writing, “Man Bites Dog defines audacity. An assured, seductive chamber of horrors, it marries nightmare with humor and then abruptly takes the laughter away. Intentionally disturbing, it is close to the last word about the nature of violence on film, a troubling, often funny vision of what the movies have done to our souls… The deserving winner of the International Critics Award at Cannes …”
I watched it recently. Not for the faint of heart. It left me troubled.
If you want to watch it, you have to be okay watching scenes of gruesome gang rape and extreme violence that’s made to look real.