Subconscious Cruelty

A woman subjected to a visceral dissection in the Ovarian Eyeball segment. Her exposed form anchors the film’s clinical, shocking approach to violence and creation.

A severed hand featured in the opening sequence, a grotesque detail that suggests detachment of agency and the fragility of the body.

The narrator of Human Larvae, fixated on his sister and her pregnancy. He reveals a warped sense of creation and a capacity for extreme violence.

The sister who becomes pregnant by her husband and becomes the focus of her brother’s dark fixation. She dies as a result of the disturbed acts around birth.

The sister’s lover involved in the incest-tinged scenario; his role underscores the transgressive sexuality that permeates the segment.

A girl appearing in a photo within the narrative’s uneasy, memory-laden imagery, contributing to the sense of haunting in Human Larvae.

A nude performer appearing in the Rebirth segment, part of the ritualistic, earth-centered collective depiction.

A nude performer, contributing to the ensemble that performs on the grass-covered plain in Rebirth.

Another nude performer in the Rebirth sequence, adding to the sense of communal ritual and primal acts.

A further participant in the Rebirth section’s ritual tableau, emphasizing collective body horror.

One of the nude performers in Rebirth, part of the multiplicity of bodies engaged in the earth-bound ritual.

A faith-obsessed businessman tormented by a nightmare and his own doppelganger; the segment escalates into gruesome self-destruction.

The businessman’s doppelganger, who mutilates him and symbolizes the fragmentation of self under religious and sexual stress.

A drunk figure in the Right Brain / Martyrdom segment who crosses paths with the film’s disturbing, ritual imagery.

A secretary who witnesses the escalating chaos surrounding the Right Brain / Martyrdom narrative.

A presence on screen within the same segment, contributing to the surreal, media-inflected texture of the finale.

A severed feminine hand featured in the segment’s visual tableaux, continuing the film’s focus on body parts as images of horror.

A subliminally presented body form that contributes to the cryptic, ritual atmosphere of Right Brain / Martyrdom.

A second subliminal body figure reinforcing the theme of hidden or unconscious violence.

A martyr figure in the final sequence, linking physical pain to sacred and sacrificial imagery.

One of the nude women who tortures and devours the man at the church, contributing to the film’s brutal conclusion.

One of the attackers in the church sequence, performing acts of cannibalistic horror.

The third attacker in the same brutal finale, adding to the desecration of the doomed figure.