geanenesilas This isnt the sort of horror I like. It was very realistic, graphic, and suspenseful. The actor did a good job of capturing what I think someone like that would be like. It was disturbing but I kept watching to see how it would end. I wouldnt watch it again.

christopher-underwood A full star rating, for me, usually indicates a film I would gladly sit down and watch again, straight away. Not this one. Not this mean disgusting, horrific, disturbing, involving and believable film from Gerald Kargl. If the refusal of distributors to show this upon release had been overcome, what mighty movies might, this clearly most talented man have brought us? Well, I suppose the influence is clear to see in much more recent and overwrought horror, but surely nothing so impressive as this. From start to finish, helped by a haunting score and free flowing cinematography, not afraid to mix intense POV shots with overhead and hand-held. Blistering and uncompromising film making helped much by a sensational central performance from Erwin Leder and also by the clever use of voice over where we learn what this guy has done before and how much pleasure it gives him and then what he hopes to do with these very people he is dragging around. A very tough film that is out there on its own. Grubby and hard to like but a genuine and sincere masterpiece.

trashgang This movie really is old and it shows. Compared to the standards of today, like the french movies Martyrs, Frontiere(s) and Inside it's outdated. knowing that you can start to watch the movie. We follow a psychopath who got released from prison. Immediately he wants to kill again. The reason why is all be told by a voice in the background. So we follow him thinking who and how he wants to strike. When he sees an abandoned house, he think, he breaks in and to his surprise he notices that there are still people living there, plan goes wrong so he has to act suddenly. From there on we follow the psychopath in away done in Henry, portrait of a serial killer and Man Bites Dog. The position of the camera is done not in first person but is strapped around his body with a close up of his head. The blood flows with one killing, the others are more done is a psycho way. The time it came out it never had a proper release and still haven't got one, it's OOP and hard to find. So really one to have.

jones-antony Following the glowing reviews, I couldn't wait to get my hands on this one, but quickly realised that 'meeting a hero' can indeed ruin the illusion that one has built up in their mind.The best thing about this film was the build up. It is one of the first movies of its genre to properly explore the psyche of a serial killer. These people are not (as popular myths would suggest) heroes or indeed anti-heroes, but sad & twisted souls, abused and discarded by their peers, their only chance at self-worth being to control, destroy and ultimately possess others. In this regard the film is a triumphant success. It's a refreshing change compared with the patronising Hollywood crap out there that portrays these individuals as super-human & the gratuitous and stylised violence that could only ever be believed in a comic-book. However....The film really does need some blood-letting to punctuate the brutality that the mood anticipates around every next corner but never occurs. In fact there are only 3 actual murders in the entire film (two of which are very unconvincing and bloodless) which technically means that this individual is a mass-murderer and not a serial killer (the definition requires that a perpetrator kills on at least three separate occasions). The only scene that comes close to being shocking (a rape & murder) takes place outside in the dark and as such the viewer can hardly see what's occurring.I know I must sound like a philistine, but if I want to imagine carnage then I will read a book. The violence in this film seems to take place in the killer's mind and not on the screen. It's a film that will make you think...but it won't make you shiver with fear. It's far more Blair Witch than Last House on the Left. Ultimately there's lots of atmosphere and very little substance.If you are not familiar with the mindset of a serial killer then you may well find this film disturbing, but to those who of us are there are no new insights here & little in the way of entertainment. A big shame.