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Wisconsin Death Trip
Directed by
James Marsh
Not Rated
1999
76m
Drama
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History
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6.6
75%
64%
5.7
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Inspired by the book of the same name, film-maker James Marsh relays a tale of tragedy, murder and mayhem that erupted behind the respectable facade of Black River Falls, Wisconsin in the 19th century.
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Cast of Wisconsin Death Trip
Ian Holm
Narrator (voice)
Marcus Monroe
Young Anderson
Marilyn White
Pauline L'Allemand
John Baltes
Undertaker
Molly Nikki Anderson
Mrs. Larson
Brittany Haydock
Baptized Girl
Eddie Kunz
Abandoned Boy
Steven Strobel
Union Man
James Marsh
Director / Writer / Producer / Sound Effects Designer
Maureen A. Ryan
Producer
Anthony Wall
Executive Producer
Eigil Bryld
Director Of Photography
Frankie DeMarco
Additional Director Of Photography
Ellen Kozak
Costume Design
Phil Bricklebank
Colorist
Jinx Godfrey
Editor / Sound Effects Designer
DJ Shadow
Music
John Cale
Music
Michael Lesy
Book
Wisconsin Death Trip Ratings & Reviews
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Marsh's film alludes to the poor economy of the former mining town but has little else to say about potential causes or motivation. Marsh just piles the events on, as if there's black humor in their sheer volume. Nope, just a big boring pile.
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
The main problem with Wisconsin Death Trip is the way the format distances you from the subject matter, so that stories may shock, but they never move you.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
Wisconsin Death Trip chronicles, in bleakly funny vignettes, the marathon of perverse, violent, and frequently inexplicable acts of violence and insanity that gripped the seemingly cursed Wisconsin town of Black River Falls during the late 19th century.
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Crisply photographed in black and white by cinematographer Eigil Bryld and extremely violent, it's the hellish flip-side to Little House on the Prairie.
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Required viewing for anyone who thinks the modern media created the social ills that accost us so frequently today.
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Chillingly beautiful cinematography makes the state's landscapes appear timeless as it sets the stage for a grim history.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Those who pine for the presumed simpler life and upright morals of yesteryear's small-town Midwest have a rude, albeit wry, awakening in store with Wisconsin Death Trip.
Filmcritic.com
Matt Langdon
Chances are you have never seen a film quite like Wisconsin Death Trip
New York Times
Stephen Holden
When the movie is concentrating on the book, it is a creepily enthralling document that illustrates the susceptibility to breakdown of what we think of as sanity and civilization. But the film stumbles in its color sequences.
Killer Movie Reviews
Andrea Chase
. . .a fever dream of a film that is haunting, capable of jarring moments of revelation about the timelessness of human nature. . .
eFilmCritic.com
Brian Mckay
If sitting in a library basement reading random newspaper articles on microfilm for two hours is your idea of a good time, then this movie has your name all over it.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Michael Lesy's macabre 1973 cult book of photographs has been given the documentary treatment in this seemingly made-for-the-movies true story.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
An unsettling semi-documentary narrated by Ian Holm that chronicles the bizarre goings-on in and around the town of Black River Falls, Wis., between 1890 and 1900.
Boston Phoenix
Jonathan Stern
Marsh belabors the grotesque, and shock gives way to nausea as he piles on accounts of unexplained suicides, abandoned children, psychotic delusions, and other gory vignettes.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Chris Hewitt
Combines documentary photos with actor re-creations to assemble a stunning catalog of cheesehead mayhem.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
In the extraordinary film Wisconsin Death Trip we see how much we have in common with our forebears.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A piece of twisted Americana that stays eerily in your mind.
Boxoffice Magazine
Tim Cogshell
A stirring little documentary.
Village Voice
Amy Taubin
A tricky, empty film adaptation of Michael Lesy's overrated 1973 book of the same name.
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