History YMMV / ManBitesDog

* MoralEventHorizon: There's many possible turning points, but no doubt the most obvious one is when Benoît and the film crew [[spoiler:break into a couple's home on a bender, gang-rape the wife while forcing the husband to watch at gunpoint, then violently murder them both]].

* EvilIsCool: Benoît starts out as this, but ultimately subverts it as the movie goes on.

* CultClassic: The film has grown this reputation quite quickly after release. Also helped in America by the fact that Creator/QuentinTarantino noticed and loved it.

* CultClassic

* EvilIsCool: Up to a certain point the serial killer is a likeable character.

* {{Narm}}: While most of the killings are visceral and realistic, the limitations brought on by the film's shoestring budget can sometimes make the murders look... off. The woman strangled by piano wire at the start of the film clearly opens her eyes and starts blinking as the scene fades to black, the murdered child's chest continues to rise and fall after being smothered, and occasionally Benoit's attacks look like weak, almost gentle blows when he's really meant to be beating someone to death.

* MoralEventHorizon: There's many possible turning points, but no doubt the most obvious one is when Benoît and the film crew [spoiler:break into a couple's home on a bender, gang-rape the wife while forcing the husband to watch at gunpoint, then violently murder them both]].

* MoralEventHorizon: It shouldn't take long before you judge Benoit, or the camera crew following him, to have done something unforgivable.

* {{Narm}}: While most of the killings are visceral and realistic, the limitations brought on by the film's shoestring budget can sometimes make the murders look... off. The woman strangled by piano wire at the start of the film clearly opens her eyes and starts blinking as the scene fades to black, the murdered child's chest continues to rise and fall after being smothered, and occasionally Benoit's attacks look like weak, almost gentle blows when he's really meant to be beating someone to death.

* MagnificentBastard: In some scenes Benoit comes across as a charming storyteller, in others you realize he is really an AxCrazy psychopath, who feels no remorse for his victims.

* MoralEventHorizon: It shouldn't take long before you judge Benoit, or the camera crew following him, to have done something unforgivable.

* CompleteMonster: Beniot.

* CompleteMonster: Benoit never shows any grief or second thoughts about anything he does and targets everyone, from women to children to helpless elderly people.

* CompleteMonster: Benoit never shows any grief or second thoughts about anything he does.
* EvilIsCool: Up to a certain point the serial killer is a likeable character and targets everyone, from women to children to helpless elderly people.

* MoralEventHorizon: it shouldn't take long before you judge Benoit, or the camera crew following him, to have done something unforgivable.

* EvilIsCool: Up to a certain point the serial killer is a likeable character.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Probably the best candidate is the scene where Benoit and his new friends encounter ''another'' psychopath being accompanied by a camera crew.

* EvilIsCool: Upon unto a certain point the serial killer is a likeable character.