Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

bees8932 Marian Dova's film was indeed a step up from Cannibal. It's a dream like visual art-house film that turns the graphic and grotesque into a beautiful piece of film making. I have to say the uncut version I'm reviewing was in German language with no subtitles but that was not a major issue as there is no real narrative. The film appears to be about death and decay. We see old dolls, dead birds, insects, pigs, cats, fish, insects, and copses in coffins, cigars burning down, and old bones. The scenes involve sexual violence towards women, mutilation, urine, the smearing of excrement and general extreme horror that would normally shock. However, this is no exploitation movie; all the scenes have a dream like quality and an unsettling atmosphere which leave for an emotional experience. Good cinematography and a score by David Hess make this better than it really should be. Lots of sex, nudity and masturbation which is in no way erotic and scenes that would be controversial if in a different picture. At over two and a half hours long it's best to watch in two or three sittings as this is not a movie to grip or even shock you, just a decent piece of extreme horror art-house.

theironwarrior I've used IMDb since it started and never made an account, but after watching this over hyped sham, I had to say some thing to spare future viewers from this load of pseudo-pretentious offal.NOTE: SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW....not that it matters as the only thing spoiled is the time wasted to watch this tripe.This is the type of movie when some crack head director with dreams of nihilist angst tries to bore to death anyone foolish enough to endure two hours and thirty-eight minutes of cerebral pain, utter random nonsense, and stupidity.Other reviewers talk about the animal deaths and get all "faux squeamish" in a contrived attempt to puke some "artistic license" to this turd. Yeah, right. Only a PETA goop would find this offensive, but I must say forcing one to watch this would be better than water boarding them. Actually, instead of water boarding, this movie should be used to force confessions from "terrorists." The o-so-shocking violent sex scenes had me chuckling. They are so bad, they give bad porn a bad name. A simple tube search for BDSM movies will provide the REAL enlightenment.They way the editor jumped from one babbling monologue to another in an attempt to legitimize the moral (or lack of) struggles made me think he was on crack...or was just wanting to get this dung heap finished! IMPORTANT: There is NOTHING redeeming about this movie. Endless pseudo-psychological blathering, poor effects, laughable violent sex scenes, and characters, that halfway through, will have you screaming for Jason Voorhees to show up and hack-n-slash them all to oblivion! If I was given the choice of mashing my toes with a ball-peen hammer or watching this slobbering drivel, I'd be grabbing the nearest hammer! Avoid...AVOID...at all costs!

Rico The horror status this movie has got is pretty high... Possibly, seen as a must for die hard horror fans...I'll start off on a high, Melancholie der Engel has great camera work, & to a large extent, the soundtrack is OK...However... Its just waaay too long...There is some great sick scenes in there, but it just gets boring in between, & the dialogue is terrible... Which for me is the biggest bummer, as regarding the storyline, there is just nothing to grab onto, at all, its basically just random scenes of emptiness...I'm guessing this movie got rated so sick for the animal cruelty in it, which of course is bad... However compare that to the extreme scenes of paedophilia in 'A Serbian Film'... Well... I know which were more disturbing for me...At the end of the day, this movie is only worth a watch to see how it compares to the rest of the so-called sick movies...

sybarite_2003 This film is visually unlike any I have ever seen. The cinematography is really good and the constant cut scenes of animals being killed in various ways is almost documentary-like and eye-catching. However, the main problem I found was that the main story arc didn't make much sense to me and was just a chance to show a lot of graphic violence and explicit sex. Although very little of the sex was erotic-- I'm not sure it was meant to be. It was very realistically shot --almost the same as in natural wildlife films--and not sensationalised with close-ups, music etc. The other problem for me was that the main characters were just too nasty and unlike-able.I have to admit that a lot of the scenes I saw, I never thought I'd ever see in a mainstream movie yet -- although if this is 'mainstream' is open to debate and that it is in a European film makes sense. Never will such a film be made in Hollywood and then get a general release. Never!I never thought I'd see a scene of a man shitting on to a woman in a non-extreme-porn movie although the scene lasts a second. Then the man pulling apart the young girl's buttocks and licking her arsehole and she defecating on him....the bearded man pissing on the woman at his feet...The most disturbing thing for me was the violence done to the women. That I found much more unwatchable than the sexual deviancy. With proper editing this could have been a masterpiece but it just remains an interesting exercise in shocking the viewer. But the director must be congratulated for daring to push boundaries. After all, we all urinate, defecate, have sexual fetishes, ejaculate --so why does cinema have to glamorise them? Just show them naturally. Seeing someone defecating is much less offensive than seeing someone's head being blown up or torture-porn.