Subconscious Cruelty

Subconscious Cruelty
DVD cover
Directed byKarim Hussain
Written byKarim Hussain
Produced byMitch Davis
StarringBrea Asher
Ivaylo Founev
Eric Pettigrew
Christopher Piggins
Martine Viale
CinematographyKarim Hussain
François Bourdon
Edited byKarim Hussain
Music byTeruhiko Suzuki
Distributed byAlbatros Film (Japan)
New Select (Japan)
Cinema Novo (Portugal)
Infliction Films (Canada)
Release date
  • October 12, 2000 (2000-10-12)
Running time
92 min.
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
Budget$100,000 CAD

Subconscious Cruelty is a 2000 Canadian independent experimental anthology horror film written and directed by Karim Hussain and produced by Mitch Davis. It was filmed over a long period of time, from February 1994 to December 1999, and debuted at the Festival de Cine de Sitges in Sitges, Spain, on October 12, 2000. The film went on to screen at several other festivals, including the Stockholm International Film Festival and Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival before being released on DVD on April 18, 2005. The film was first released in Canada on Friday, April 13, 2001. It screened at Cinema Du Parc in Montreal, Quebec, Canada for two weeks from April 13 to the 28th of 2001. The film was screened again at the same theater for a single weekend in November 2001, and for one final time in June 2003. Since then, it has not had a public screening in Canada.