About midway through Nikias Chryssos’ debut feature film Der Bunker, Pit Bukowski’s anonymous boarder asks the Jack-esque “child” Klaus (Daniel Fripan) he has been pressured into tutoring to stop playing the organ. Klaus, decked out in an outfit that would have looked right at home on Pet Sematary’s Gage, turns and asks “Too fortissimo?” It’s an extremely odd moment […]
Wolf Like Me: Der Samurai is All Style and No Substance
As inseparable as horror and symbolism may be, it’s hard to view Till Kleinert’s stylish Der Samurai as anything other than a strenuous test of what happens when that balance is tipped a little too heavily towards the symbolic end. A dreamy tale of man versus his inner beast, Der Samurai is all style and no substance, stuffed […]