Begotten (1990)

Creation, God and Mother Earth get the gore treatment in director E. Elias Merhige's highly controversial film. Teeming with surrealistic images and told without dialogue, the allegorical story opens with a white-robed deity disemboweling himself. From the entrails emanates a new spirit who impregnates herself from the carcass - but calamity awaits her and her offspring. Definitely not for the squeamish, the film is shot in grainy black-and-white.