My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done2010

🏆 2 nominations

Horror Vault's take

When a seemingly ordinary young man commits an act of shocking violence and seals himself inside his home, a police standoff becomes the backdrop for a haunting excavation of his past. Detectives canvas friends, neighbors, and loved ones to reconstruct a portrait of slow, creeping psychological disintegration. Werner Herzog and producer David Lynch bring their singular sensibilities to this stranger-than-fiction tale, lending it a dreamlike, off-kilter atmosphere that unsettles as much as it disturbs. What emerges is less a procedural and more a meditation on how a mind quietly comes apart at the seams.

Content: Violence, Depictions Of Mental Illness, Disturbing Behavior