MIFF 2016 - Day 11

Blood of my Blood

An extremely angular take on vampire stories. We start with a woman accused of devilry and the brother of the man she's accused of seducing. He needs her to confess, otherwise his brother (who appears to have committed suicide) can't be buried properly. But she won't confess. Then we're in the modern day with a vampire mafioso defending his town from a conman. Institutional abuse of process seems to be the underlying theme, and it all kind of fits, sort of, but it's so deliberately obtuse you could easily be frustrated with it. But pay enough attention and you can link the parts together, though who knows if you're right or not. I kinda dug it though.

Men & Chicken

What did I just watch? An absurdist comic take on The Island of Dr Moreau? I think that's the best way to describe it. Two brothers discover that they're adopted, and only half-brothers. So they go in search of their birth father, who lives on an island with their other three brothers. Who are all extremely odd. This may be Mads Mikkelsen's finest hour. Seriously, he's hysterical and oh so wrong here. Almost unrecognisable. It's dark and weird and very very twisted. Bloody funny stuff. I loved it.