Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)

Cast

Credited cast:
	Ian Holm	...	Narrator (voice)
	Jeffrey Golden	...	Editor (as Jeff Golden)
	Jo Vukelich	...	Mary Sweeney
	Marcus Monroe	...	Young Anderson
	Marilyn White	...	Pauline L'Allemand
	John Schneider	...	Asylum Clerk / Whispering Voice
	John Baltes	...	Undertaker
	Raeleen McMillion	...	Crying Woman
	Krista Grambow	...	Mourning Woman
	Clay Anton	...	Eloping Couple (male)
	Bobbie Jo Westphal	...	Eloping Couple (female)
	Scott Hulbert	...	Pouch
	Zeke Dasho	...	Edgar L'Allemand
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Kathryn Anderson	...	Mrs. Larson
	Kevin Anderson	...	Larson Child

Storyline

Wisconsin Death Trip is an intimate, shocking and sometimes hilarious account of the disasters that befell one small town in Wisconsin during the final decade of the 19th century. The film is inspired by Michael Lesy's book of the same name which was first published in 1973. Lesy discovered a striking archive of black and white photographs in the town of Black River Falls dating from the 1890s and married a selection of these images to extracts from the town's newspaper from the same decade. The effect was surprising and disturbing. The town of Black River Falls seems gripped by some peculiar malaise and the weekly news is dominated by bizarre tales of madness, eccentricity and violence amongst the local population. Suicide and murder are commonplace. People in the town are haunted by ghosts, possessed by devils and terrorized by teenage outlaws and arsonists. Like the book, the... Written by MAR  

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