Cremaster 2

Name: Cremaster 2
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Western
Released: 1999-10-13
Rating: 6.3

FantasyHorrorWestern1h 19m

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71%

Tomatometer

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79%

Popcornmeter

6.3

TMDB

Storyline

CREMASTER 2 is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fetal development during which sexual division begins. In Matthew Barney's abstraction of this process, the system resists partition and tries to remain in the state of equilibrium imagined in Cremaster 1.

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DirectorMatthew Barney

ReleasedOct 13, 1999

StatusReleased

Original languageEnglish

Budget

$1.7M

Revenue

$8K

Parental guideNot rated

Reviews

7 reviews · 6 critics

6 fresh · 0 rotten

Owen Gleiberman

RTEntertainment WeeklyJun 4, 2003

Darkly powerful.

Ted Shen

RTChicago ReaderApr 12, 2003

A tantalizing melange of dreamlike riffs on the desolation of the American west, the empty poses of male ritual, and the blood lust of macho fetishism.

Stephen Holden

RTNew York TimesApr 12, 2003

It is Gilmore's story and his family history, evoked symbolically, that give Cremaster 2 a solidity and emotional depth that are missing in the earlier, more playful installments.

David N. Butterworth

RTLa Movie BoeufApr 30, 2020

The only film in recent memory in which serial killer Gary Gilmore attempts to conjoin two Ford Mustangs with petroleum jelly.