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Angst

1983 · 75 min

A cold, clinical descent into a killer's mind, suffocatingly tense and deeply unsettling, with an unrelenting focus on cruelty and madness.

Tagline
Based on a true story.
Overview
A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • madness
  • violence
  • crime
  • trauma
  • isolation
Places
  • single country house
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • true story
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror8
Humour0
Realism9
Romance0
Tension8
Darkness10
Complexity6
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
thriller, crime, horror
Directed by
Gerald Kargl
Written by
Zbigniew Rybczyński, Gerald Kargl
Starring
Erwin Leder, Robert Hunger-Bühler, Silvia Rabenreither, Karin Springer, Edith Rosset, Josefine Lakatha, Rudolf Götz, Renate Kastelik
Music
Klaus Schulze
Cinematography
Zbigniew Rybczyński
Runtime
75 min
Country
Austria
Languages
German

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