The Awakening of the Beast
70s Cult
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1h 33m
1970 • Brazil • Directed by José Mojica Marins
Sex, perversion and sadism abound in The Awakening of the Beast as a psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD in this surreal examination of 60s drug culture.
What starts as a pseudodocumentary featuring a panel of psychiatrists and writer/director José Mojica Marins himself as an expert in depravity, soon becomes something much stranger.
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