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All of my German Splatter films. A list of 52 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Anthropophagous 2000 (1999), A Nice Evil Day (2000), Attacked (2006), Blood Forest (2019) and Berlin Snuff - Straßen der Gewalt (1995).
Since the 80s a new wave of german splatter has emerged (Jörg Buttgereit, Olaf Ittenbach) and since the 90s some german Horror-Productions even aim at mainstream-audiences. Nowadays: Big Studios still mostly don't dare to produce Horror-Movies, while there's a flood of amateur Productions out of the splatter- and gore-scenes to compensate that.
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- The Golem
- Nosferatu
- The Hands of Orlac
- M: Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
- Vampyr
- The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
- Horrors of Spider Island
- Jonathan
- Mark of The Devil
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, (German: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is a silent movie and a key influence to German expressionist cinema. Directed by Robert Wiene and written by two pacifists named Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz, Caligariis considered the apex of German Expressionist cinema. The sets were painted rather than natural, and they evoke w...
An Expressionist classic in the vein of Dr. Caligari, the film’s German title was Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (The Golem: How He Came Into the World). The plot retells an actual Jewish folk myth from Prague in the 1600s when the Holy Roman Emperor was severely oppressing the inhabitants of the Jewish minority ghetto. The title character is a ...
The first true Dracula film—Bela Lugosi’s Dracula would come nine years later—Nosferatu is based directly on the 1897 Bram Stoker novel Draculawith a few key elements switched around to avoid prosecution for copyright infringement. For example, Count Dracula becomes Count Orlok, the word “nosferatu” is used instead of “vampire,” and the bloodsuckin...
The Hands of Orlac brings director Robert Weine and actor Conrad Veidt back together after Dr. Caligarito tell the tale of a concert pianist who loses his hands in a railroad accident, only to have them replaced with a murderer’s hands. He soon finds himself with an overwhelming desire to kill. Since his new hands aren’t able to play the piano, Orl...
Released in the USA simply as M, the full German title translates as M: A City Searches for a Murderer. This is famed director Fritz Lang’s first sound film, and he says he considers it the best film he ever made because it tells a tale of social responsibility. It involves a child killer (hauntingly played by bug-eyed Peter Lorre, who, along with ...
This dreamy, intentionally washed-out-looking 1932 surrealistic classic was filmed with the actors silently mouthing their lines in three different languages—French, German, and English—because director Carl Theodor Dreyer wanted to release three different versions. Voiceover actors subsequently dubbed in the lines after filming was completed, alth...
The basic plot involves a criminal genius who gives orders to his underlings while he’s confined in an asylum, then continues giving orders as a ghost after he dies. The subtext is that the Dr. Mabuse character was intended as a proxy for Adolf Hitler. Released in Germany as Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse, this offering from Fritz Lang is simultaneou...
A West German take on the Cold War due to the fact that Spider Island is rich with uranium but infested with radioactive spiders, this low-budget softcore exploitation film involves a group of New York City strippers who are flying to a gig in Singapore, only to crash on a remote island but miraculously survive. Gary, the strip-club manager, wander...
A post-WWII German film whose unique twist is that it casts vampires as an entire class of wealthy fascist aristocrats who rule the country and routinely suck the blood from every human and animal under their dominion. It is set in rural Germany in the 1800s, where a group of peasants, led by a “vampire researcher,” select a heroic young man named ...
Released in Germany as Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält (Witches Tortured till They Bleed), the film’s production company earned international attention with marketing schemes such as providing “barf bags” for theatergoers and describing the movie as “Positively the most horrifying film ever made,” “Rated V for Violence,” and “Guaranteed to Make You Sic...
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Feb 28, 2015 · The Curse of Doctor Wolffenstein: Directed by Marc Rohnstock. With Mika Metz, Isabelle Aring, Robin Czerny, Stephanie Meisenzahl. Dr. Victor Wolffenstein, a genius and at the same time devilish doctor, has set himself a huge goal, he wants to become immortal.
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Dec 20, 2006 · German Splatter Films. by Mitchell Wells Dec 20, 2006, 1:11 pm 0. nfernal Films is an independent horror and film production company from Germany. Specializing in the over the top gore effects similar to the old German master of gore… Andreas Schnaas. The mastermind that brought you such classics as Violent Shit and Anthropophagous 2000.
Jan 1, 1993 · Media. German splatter film following a demon resurrected through the unholy acts of a serial killing prostitute.
