This film claims to be some sort of artistic, gore-horror masterpiece. What an utter lie that is. In reality, it is a trite, pseudo-intellectual attempt at being "artsy." Buttgereit attempts to use an absurd amount of repetition of imagery to make some sort of statement about the main character's depravity-- a good idea in theory, but taking 10 minutes of footage and repeating it in varying edits for an 65 minutes makes for a dreadfully uninteresting film. He did a far better job at exploring sexual deviance and death in his Nekromantik films...
