Geert Hunaerts Movies

Not to be confused with the popular Jennifer Garner television series of the same name, director Jan Verheyen's dark thriller tells the tale of a suicide caught on camera. When Eva (Hilde de Baerdemaeker) and Patti (Veerle Dobbelaere) unwittingly videotape a young girl as she leaps to her death from the window of a nearby building, their shock turns to utter horror when a thief attempts to make off with their camcorder. Though a handsome and mysterious stranger named Dieter (Geert Hunaerts) manages to chase off the would-be thief, Eva and Patti grow increasingly disturbed upon realizing that there may be a connection between the suicide and the seeming chance encounter with Dieter. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

If you like the title of this Belgian production, you'll love its source, a story by Charles Bukowski titled The Copulating Mermaid of Venice, Calif. Actually the film draws material from three different Bukowski stories to outline three crucial stages in a man's life. The hero begins as a 12-year old naif, "develops" into a miserable pimply adolescent who yearns for the girls who laugh in his face, and "matures" into an alcoholic, drug-addicted bum with a predilection for necrophilia. Amazingly, the material is handled with subtlety and sensitivity--the trick is to get through the film's first painful moments. The episodic nature of Love is a Dog From Hell is due to the fact that the film began as a 30-minute short subject, then was expanded into a feature when a distributor evinced interest. For its grindhouse playoffs, Love is a Dog From Hell was retitled Crazy Love. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi