Homunculus

Homunculus

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Release Date

4/2/2021

Runtime

119 mins

Overview

A homeless man meets a medical school student who pays him to volunteer for a surgical procedure known as trepanation, drilling a hole in his skull, which ends up giving him the ability to communicate with the dark side of people’s subconscious minds.

Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

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Revenue

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A visually transgressive descent into the dark recesses of human consciousness, where a surgical mutilation grants a man access to the shadows lurking within those around him. Methodically disturbing and philosophically fractured, this film trades conventional narrative satisfaction for sustained psychological unease.

Mood

UnsettlingDread-soakedParanoidContemplative

Themes

IdentityObsessionIsolationMortality

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

HandheldHigh-contrastStylized genre

Structure

Linear

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Graphic violenceBody horror

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