Gerald Kargl directs Erwin Leder, Robert Hunger-Bühler and Silvia Ryder in this gruesome German art house thriller where a young psychopath is released from prison and invades a home.

A cult Bête Noire. Actually not so dissimilar to In A Violent Nature in that we spend much of the film with the camera non-judgmentally following a killer closely over a day as he darts around. This sadistic freak is really incompetent but he puts the graft in. Sure he tortures and kills but it all unravels chaotically and clumsily. He makes terrible choices. What is he? Insane! Mad?! Work smarter not harder. I totally get what this purposefully cold and disgusting film is achieving but wouldn’t rush to rewatch. A progenitor of Haneke at his most extreme.

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Perfect Double Bill: Benny’s Video (1992)

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