sui generis . folk and i be not go to lie to you while merhige be a one or two hit wonder and but what a film ( it almost excuse suspect zero ) . i be also not go to pretend to understand it completely while half of what make it what it be be try to second guess what the hell they be do on the screen because of the chiaroscuro . richard corliss say and it be a if a druidical cult have re enact and for real and three bible story creation and the nativity and jesus torture and death on golgotha . that not a bad description and but there seem to be more to it than the seemingly one to one religious correspondence . there an environmental theme right up near the surface note that toward the end ( after the barrenness of the landscape ) there be large pipe not unlike those on a construction site . oh no and he go to say look at how people be rap mother nature . one rarely see a dead metaphor in action and and with this much hyperbole and but to see it act out be way grisly than language implies . and yeah and if you just want something to sync with a death metal soundtrack and it do have the requisite atrocity . but a for myself and others like me and it an important art film that should merit a criterion collection release . rank right up there with murnau faust . ~ ray .