.. like time, effort to find it, money etc - but mostly time.
at a convention, the writing "OLAF ITTENBACH" jumped right into my face, from a basket of 2-bucks-dvds. as a long-time admirer of the master of german gore, i was foolish enough to grab it.
and then i actually sat through the whole runtime, my jaw already down to my chest, until finally the credits started.
so why was it bad?, a curious reader might wonder. let me reply with: what wasn't? story: alright when it comes to amateur flicks it's unfair to ask for the story. there was a plot, no doubt, and it wasn't even that bad. the problem was the execution: poor of the poorest. whole movie is filled with utterly unfunny "comedy", to call the actors wooden would be a horrid understatement, and the tiny tiny occasions where herr ittenbach can show his skills look like a black pearl in a pile of rotting cattle guts.
there's no point in losing words over production, setting or even character development. just the soundtrack deserves a mention: as a native speaker i squirmed in my seat more than once. it's the nightmarish stuff you straight away associate with ballermann or similar requiems of dignity. let me, as an epilogue, repeat that i really enjoy most low budget gore flicks from germany. but this one was just.. well, read above. at least it cancelled my feverish search for taubert's other works.
at a convention, the writing "OLAF ITTENBACH" jumped right into my face, from a basket of 2-bucks-dvds. as a long-time admirer of the master of german gore, i was foolish enough to grab it.
and then i actually sat through the whole runtime, my jaw already down to my chest, until finally the credits started.
so why was it bad?, a curious reader might wonder. let me reply with: what wasn't? story: alright when it comes to amateur flicks it's unfair to ask for the story. there was a plot, no doubt, and it wasn't even that bad. the problem was the execution: poor of the poorest. whole movie is filled with utterly unfunny "comedy", to call the actors wooden would be a horrid understatement, and the tiny tiny occasions where herr ittenbach can show his skills look like a black pearl in a pile of rotting cattle guts.
there's no point in losing words over production, setting or even character development. just the soundtrack deserves a mention: as a native speaker i squirmed in my seat more than once. it's the nightmarish stuff you straight away associate with ballermann or similar requiems of dignity. let me, as an epilogue, repeat that i really enjoy most low budget gore flicks from germany. but this one was just.. well, read above. at least it cancelled my feverish search for taubert's other works.