The brilliant movie Angst, 1983 Shot from below, above, in extreme close-ups and other impossible angles, Angst tells the story of a frustrated killer, just out of jail, eager to meet his next victim. His voice-over tells a chilling story of lust, the history of his deprivations and past crimes. After a botched attempt to strangle a cab-driver, he comes to a secluded, large house which he breaks into. I thought, this is paradise to me, go his rambling thoughts. The house is occupied by a dog, a brother and sister and their mother. The killer overpowers them all and unleashes his (clumsy) reign of terror on them. His plan is to let them watch each others deaths and take pleasure out of their fear and misery. They are sacrifices for his joy. He is a man hunted by his own fears of the past. With his twisted fantasies of murder, fear and control, in the end he shows himself to be a huge failure, leaving a trail of death and destruction. The Klaus Schulze music-track is quite surreal at times and haunting. The sound department fails. Sounds are too loud, there is sound when there should be silence. There are awfull stock sounds: footsteps, breaking glass. While the musical score complements the film, the sound does it no good.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 00:55:21 +0000
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