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Release Date
• USA: Sep 5, 1999
DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 24, 2004
• R2: 24 May 2004
Official Website:
Wisconsin Death Trip Website
Running Time
1 hour, 16 minutes
Country USA, UK
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• Wisconsin Death Trip
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Genre: Documentary, Murder, Infidelity
Plot: Writer/Director James Marsh's first feature, WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP, is an intimate, shocking and sometimes hilarious account of the disasters that befell one small town in Wisconsin during the final decade of the 19th century. The film is inspired by Michael Lesy’s book of the same name which was first published in 1973. Lesy discovered a striking archive of black and white photographs in the town of Black River Falls dating from the 1890’s and married a selection of these images to extracts from the town’s newspaper from the same decade. The effect was surprising and disturbing. The town of Black River Falls seems gripped by some peculiar malaise and the weekly news is dominated by bizarre tales of madness, eccentricity and violence amongst the local population. Suicide and murder are commonplace. People in the town are haunted by ghosts, possessed by devils and terrorized by teenage outlaws and arsonists.Like the book, the film is constructed entirely from authentic news reports from the Black River Falls’ newspaper with occasional excerpts from the records of the nearby Mendota Asylum for the Insane. The film also makes use of the haunting black and white photographs taken by the resident portrait photographer of Black River Falls at the end of the 19th century. The film
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It’s certainly not a film for everyone, especially those looking for typical genre fare. However, if you’re in the mood for a somber and beautiful look at an extremely strange period in America’s history, pick this one up.--Mike Skinner (Diabolical-Dominion.com)
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Ian Holm
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