Only for fans of the bizarre and certainly not for those with even a faintly weak stomach. But for those meeting both qualifications: Welcome to a devious little nightmare.
Belongs to a school of Central European surrealism that marries nightmarish horror with formal beauty.
90
L.A. Weekly
L.A. Weekly
All this helps to shape Pálfi’s crudely bombastic but impressive philosophical view of the body as landscape and art, a source of personal discovery, wonder and annihilation.
90
The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter
For a film so pessimistic about mankind, Taxidermia erupts with some light-hearted technical inspiration: Cinematographer Gergely Poharnok's compositions are wickedly hilarious, while production designer Adrien Asztalos' concoctions are peculiarly gross.
90
VarietyEddie Cockrell
VarietyEddie Cockrell
Taxidermia sets a benchmark for body horror in the cinema.
Keeping it surreal has never been so nauseating and, at times, hilarious.
50
New York PostV.A. Musetto
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Despite its stomach-turning images (and maybe because of), it is a daring, provocative work by a talented helmer who gets off pushing the envelope. He should be supported, no matter how outlandish he gets.