I recently watched two Ittenbach-movies within one week, attracted by the stories on the cover: this one and "Beyond all limits". They are actually both in the same vein.
Maybe there's a certain audience for it, but I have to admit that it's not my cup of tea. That has nothing to do with a tender heart, I'm really a horror-addict and I can take about anything. But Ittenbach seems to forget that movie-making is about more than just punching people in the belly with a visual surplus of gore. There should also be something like a more or less coherent story to begin with, and a plot, and a decent script and at least one or two professional actors. What we get here lacks all of the afore-mentioned. You could as easily go to a butcher and watch him kill and dissect a cow for one and a half hour. This movie is supposed to be horror, but it's not: it's never in any way scary, with the ceaselessly mounting scenes of gruesome tortures it just gets more and more predictable, boring and at many times even preposterous.
The whole movie is full of wannabe provocative violence and gore: breaking toes, driving knives into eyes, stabbing children, beating-up a woman senseless; we see bowels pouring out off bellies, mutilated corpses, it endlessly goes on and on and on. Maybe one can admire the special effects - I admit, it all looks pretty convincing. But that's about it, there's nothing more. The actors that have to undergo all these horrors drone their lines with heavy German (or other weird) accents, maybe no-one cared for decent acting, since sooner or later (mostly sooner) every character gets killed in a horrifying way, so professional acting must have seemed like a waste of money.
As I said: there's probably a market for this kind of exploitation horror, and I realize that all that I've said here will sound to a specific kind of aficionado as music to their ears. But in my opinion it has nothing to do with movie-making. It's cheap, tasteless and tedious.
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