WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP (1999)

Wisconsin Death Trip is a journey back to the late 19th century into the town of Black River Falls, Wisconsin, where poverty, hunger, and a grueling winter are assaulting the inhabitants.  The population of the small town is mostly of immigrants from Norway and Germany and they are suffering to the point of madness where murder and bizarre behavior results from their anguish.  This anguish is often blamed upon witchcraft, ghosts, and other evils as it brings many to the Mendota Asylum for the Insane.  As the film unfolds it becomes an expedition through Wisconsin and the many macabre incidences that took place between 1890 and 1900.  In the end, it offers some interesting insight to the state of Wisconsin and it offers a truly grisly, yet well done, cinematic experience.

DIRECTED BY

James Marsh

COUNTRY

USA / UK

REVIEWED
3/13/2004
GRADE


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