Total Film, 07/01/2000, p.99, "...It makes for an eerily haunting, enigmatic journey: civilisation has rarely seemed so fragile..."
Uncut, 08/01/2004, p.138, "Compelling."
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Widescreen - 1.78
Audio:
Dolby Stereo 2.0 - English
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - 1. James Marsh - Director, Eigil Bryld - Director of Photography
Featurette - 1. "The Making of WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP"
Deleted Scenes
Text/Image Galleries:
Essay by Writer Greil Marcus
Based on Michael Lesy's 1973 book of the same name, WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP is a strikingly original nonfiction film that tells the strange story of one cursed American community. In the late 1890s, the small rural town of Black River Falls, Wisconsin, suffered through an incredibly bizarre crisis. Economically depressed and battling a diphtheria epidemic, in addition to relentlessly bleak weather conditions, the residents of Black River Falls began to collectively lose their minds. Through recreations, old photographs, and newspaper clippings culled from the era (read by Ian Holm), James Marsh's film shows just how bizarre a time in history this actually was.