Steineded How sad is this?

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

thelastblogontheleft This was easily the most difficult movie I've ever watched. I don't do this often since this is a horror movie blog and I think people should expect some level of fear and disgust while reading about or watching these movies, but this one is on a whole 'nother level, so if you are squeamish or disturbed by murder or horror at all, be amply warned.It's loosely based on Austrian serial killer Werner Kniesek, who tortured and killed a family of three while he was on parole, and it contains real-life quotes from both him and other killers such as Peter Kürten (also known as The Vampire of Düsseldorf or the Düsseldorf Monster, who committed a series of murders and sexual assaults in Germany in 1929). It's not a very well-known movie, but it's thought by many to be hugely groundbreaking and influential, particularly for Gaspar Noè (Irreversible, I Stand Alone), who has cited his fascination with the movie on more than one occasion (and has apparently seen the film many times, which I just do not have the stomach for).The film follows a recently released murderer (known only as The Psychopath in credits and played by Erwin Leder in one of the single most disturbingly convincing roles I've ever witnessed) on his first day back in society. There is almost no dialogue throughout the movie, just narration that is meant to be the killer's own thoughts and beliefs (again, real quotes from actual killers are used), and between learning about his background (so much abuse, neglect, previous crimes, and another killing) and his desires, it's obvious that there's nothing else on his mind but finding victims. One of the very first scenes shows the brilliance of cinematographer Zbigniew Rybczyński as Leder walks with a mounted, rotating camera so we can see him from all angles — just one of many amazing techniques used, but the entire film has this quality of feeling much bigger than you'd expect, more expansive, and definitely more disorienting.But really, I can't overstate how much my skin crawled throughout the entire movie. Again, I am no novice to horror. I have seen and read many disturbing things. THIS is just impressively in a league of its own. One of his stops along the way is at a small diner, and there's a scene where it's just an intense closeup of him eating a sausage with his bare hands while he leers at two young women down the counter from him and woof. It is rough.One of the most striking things to me is just how frantic he is. I think many movies portray killers as cunning, smooth, strong ultimately, in control. The killer in Angst is not ANY of these things. He is wild and unpredictable, sweaty and desperate. He's awkward. It's painful to watch. He is driven by something so deep within him that it's all that occupies his mind. He's uncoordinated, spontaneous, and clumsy.His entire experience at the house is disorganized and chaotic. Each killing is a bit different and difficult to watch in its own way, but the most stomach churning for me was the daughter. You just legitimately feel like you're watching a real murder, that's how stark and realistic the whole thing is. They used pig's blood rather than fake blood to add to the authenticity, and damn, it worked."I was determined that this all was only the beginning. I wanted to live out my fantasies. At that moment, I didn't care where that would lead. I didn't think about it at all. I wanted to get new victims as soon as possible. I was crazy about it."You hardly see anyone else in the entire movie (aside from the other customers at the diner) which really adds to the sense of isolation. You're really just alone with the killer and his thoughts, which is a scary place to be. The score, done by Klaus Schulze of Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel, adds wonderfully to the unease.There's also the family's small dog — a chubby little dachshund — that makes reoccurring appearances throughout the film in the most subtle but disturbing ways. It waddles in and grabs the old woman's dentures after a struggle. It trails behind him as he finds an outfit to wear when he leaves the house. It hops in the car as he heads into town to find his next victims. The ENTIRE MOVIE you're stressed about the fate of this dog. After all of the inhuman acts you witness and all of the completely warped thoughts you hear, you're just thinking "please don't let me watch him kill that dog, too". But he doesn't. That dog is his ride or die. But man, the suspense that is caused from such a simple, understated move brilliant.He clumsily cleans up the crime scene — well, he gathers the bodies into the trunk of the car, anyway — and heads back to the diner for round two, where he is swiftly caught (after another skin-crawling sausage consumption). The deadpan narration lets us know that he was found to be of sound mind and aware of his crimes, and sentenced to life in prison. It's a perfect, sudden ending to a movie that ultimately spends no time making judgments or assuming emotions or motives. It does not exist to speculate or to consider. It just IS, in all of its horror, and as difficult as it was to watch for all of its honesty and rawness, it really is impressive and worth a watch if you truly feel up for the challenge.

Vlad Iordache Well, Gaspar Noe may be right when he said "There's another film called "Angst" or "Fear" which in France was called "Schizophrenia" but it was banned theatrically. It's got an X-rating so it never came out. It could maybe come out today. It's Austrian. One of the masterpieces of the decade. The director never did another movie though. He had too many debts so he stopped directing.". This shocking and disturbing picture from 1983 features a brilliant performance from Erwin Leder as a serial killer who gets released from prison only to go on a killing spree in the very day he is released. A very good and original camera-work like high angle shots, p.o.v's(of a old woman who gets strangulated etc.), uncomfortably close-ups of mouths(see the first scene in the dinner) combined with a chilly music composed by Klaus Schulze adds to the disturbing atmosphere of the film. And one can't forget one of the first lines narrated by the killer "The fear in her eyes and the knife in the chest - that is my last memory of mother."

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.

Indyrod This is a remarkable Austrian serial killer movie, that reminds me a little of "HENRY". A man is released from prison after ten years for killing an old woman, and they think he has been rehabilitated. WRONG!!! Immediately, he searches out a home that no one seems to be there, and breaks in through a window. This movie has very little dialogue, what we hear is his own narration through his psychotic thoughts. He has a plan, where he intends to kill whoever owns the home, because that's what he does. Very very creepy, and with a Klaus Schulze soundtrack that builds the tension very very nicely. When the Mother and Daughter finally arrive at their home, he wastes little time in literally scaring the ill Mother to death, and then eventually very brutally killing the pretty daughter and then having sex with her corpse. This is after he drowns the invalid Son in the bathtub. But he is angry that all this killing did not go according to his plan, so he decides what he needs to do, is gather up all the bodies, put them in the family's car trunk, and go on another killing spree, scarring the next victims with the corpses in the trunk. This is serious stuff folks, there is no fooling around with this movie, it actually made me tense with the mounting tension created by his mental narration, the amazing music, and following his manic actions he trying to carry out an insane plan. This is a psycho thriller that has few equals in the genre, and I simply was blown away by it. The actor playing the psychopath is amazingly convincing, and I have to admit, this movie had an impact on me, I was somewhat shaken by watching it. It's not that gory, it's just flat out disturbing as hell, and one I won't soon forget. It's one of the best of it's genre I have ever seen. Brutal as hell, and convincing as hell, and what a hell of a soundtrack. Magnificent movie, catch it if you can.