This is a disturbing yet fun 20 minute horror short about an anthropophagic traffic island. Genius! We had a variety of bizarre and grotesque genre-monstrosities over the years, but killer traffic lights are new and truly original xD A businessman is stuck somewhere right out in the sticks at the edge of a forest, hears strange screams from afar, traverses the woods and reaches a mysterious pedestrian crossing in the middle of it, where he is stranded for the time being. If he wants to survive and not end up as the next victim of the diabolical machine with its insatiable hunger, he has to be clever and come up with ideas, since the beast has some perfidious tricks up its sleeve.
The story and especially the sometimes exaggerated, drastic depiction is actually genuinely disturbing and unsettling, but at the same time the whole concept is so surreal and still close to everyday life, that you can't help but to scream out some appalled laughs and want to know how it ends.
Also, this is more than just superficial entertainment, it rather explores our belief in systems in general and plays amusingly with the familiar foible of Germans to not jaywalk, even if there is far and wide no car to be seen ^^ We watched "90 Grad Nord" as a supporting programme film in our small university cinema for Halloween, and the audience was thrilled. If you get the chance to see this strange little gem somewhere, take the opportunity - it's worth it!
The story and especially the sometimes exaggerated, drastic depiction is actually genuinely disturbing and unsettling, but at the same time the whole concept is so surreal and still close to everyday life, that you can't help but to scream out some appalled laughs and want to know how it ends.
Also, this is more than just superficial entertainment, it rather explores our belief in systems in general and plays amusingly with the familiar foible of Germans to not jaywalk, even if there is far and wide no car to be seen ^^ We watched "90 Grad Nord" as a supporting programme film in our small university cinema for Halloween, and the audience was thrilled. If you get the chance to see this strange little gem somewhere, take the opportunity - it's worth it!
