Affliction vs Everest Dark

Everest Dark has the higher audience score (10/10 against 5.1/10 for Affliction). Affliction is the shorter watch at 45m compared with 1h 30m. Affliction is the older of the two (1996 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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AfflictionEverest Dark
Audience score★ 5.1/10★ 10.0/10
Year19962025
Length45m1h 30m
GenresDocumentaryDocumentary
Country–Canada
DirectorMark HejnarJereme Watt
Main castAnnie Sprinkle, GG Allin, Full Force Frank, Mike Diana, Kembra PfahlerJaswant Dev Shrestha, Pem Futi Sherpa, Nim Tsiri Sherpa, Nima Temba Sherpa, Mingma Tsiri Sherpa

Synopsis

Affliction

This 45 minute documentary by Mark Hejnar is a sort of Whitman's Sampler of sickness, chronicling such wildly diverse and extreme personalities as G.G. Allin, Mike Diana, Full Force Frank, GLOD, Annie Sprinkle, and others. This collection of short clips and vile moments is certainly NOT for the squeamish, as these are the artists and performers who have taken the term "free expression" to it's limits--and beyond.

Everest Dark

Tourists line up at the foot of Mount Everest to climb the mythological mountain – and to tell everyone else about the feat. For the same reason, Mount Everest has become a graveyard full of the frozen corpses of fallen mountaineers. But the story of the world’s highest mountain also has another, overlooked side: the local one. For around the huge mountain between Nepal and Tibet lives a local population with their own worldview, which is very…

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