Go Down Death

Name: Go Down Death
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: March 28, 2014
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 68

2014

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Factory 25 | Release Date: March 28, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: Go Down Death is a wry, sinister realization of a strange new universe, a cross-episodic melange of macabre folktales supposedly penned by the fictitious writer Jonathan Mallory Sinus. An abandoned warehouse in Brooklyn stands in for a decrepit village haunted by ghosts, superstition, and disease, while threatening to buckle under rumblingsGo Down Death is a wry, sinister realization of a strange new universe, a cross-episodic melange of macabre folktales supposedly penned by the fictitious writer Jonathan Mallory Sinus. An abandoned warehouse in Brooklyn stands in for a decrepit village haunted by ghosts, superstition, and disease, while threatening to buckle under rumblings of the apocalypse. Soldiers are lost and found in endless woods; a child gravedigger is menaced by a shape-shifting physician, a syphilitic john bares all to a young prostitute, and a disfigured outcast yearns for the affections of a tone-deaf cabaret singer.… Expand

Director: Aaron Schimberg

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 87 min

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The Playlist Gabe Toro

Mar 25, 2014

This is a unique, strange, unforgettable film, a half-remembered dream that will trouble and beguile the subconscious long after you’ve moved on. Read full review

Alan Scherstuhl

Mar 25, 2014

Schimberg, in this debut, demonstrates rare assuredness in shooting and staging scenes, coaxing unexpected but true-feeling flourishes from his cast of mostly amateurs blessed with extraordinary faces. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

Mar 28, 2014

Rather than distressed retro photography, or Guy Maddin mash-up fantasias, the movie’s often deadpan episodes feel like something out of one-act theater Read full review

Alan Jones

Mar 25, 2014

The end result is a bit like a beautiful diorama, in which the people share a common purpose with the furniture: to fill space and look nice. Read full review

John DeFore

Mar 25, 2014

This film neither really embraces the mechanics of primitive cinema nor creates a coherent syntax of its own. Read full review

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