The Burning Moon (1992)

A strung-out heroin addict delinquent jerk (played to the obnoxious hilt by writer/director Olaf Ittenbach) tells his little sister two twisted tales of terror: The first concerns on an escaped serial killer (handsome Bernd Muggenthaler) who embarks on a murderous spree while the second and stronger yarn centers on the vile atrocities committed by a depraved and deranged priest (a creepy portrayal by Rudolf Hob).Ittenbach treats the bleak stories with admirable seriousness and maintains a suitably grim tone throughout. Moreover, Ittenbach delivers the gloriously excessive in-your-face over-the-top gore by the gleefully appalling bucketful which runs the gruesome gamut from decapitations to disembowelment to a guy tied down on a table who gets cut and torn up into itty bitty messy pieces. Alas, said splatter in the first story proves to be so cheap, cheesy, and unconvincing that it comes across as silly and laughable instead of gross and disturbing, but fortunately the grisly make-up f/x are done with more skill and polish in the second segment. Moreover, the first anecdote sizes up as a strictly passable slasher outing. However, the second vignette rates as an altogether darker, nastier, and overall blasphemous affair complete with rape, blood drinking, savage beatings, and an incredibly intense and nightmarish climatic descent into hell that goes right for the jugular. Recommended viewing for fans of savage and unapologetic take-no-prisoners fright fare.

This was my first Olaf Ittenbach movie and I loved it! OK, so it's budget gore, and if you cried to "Shakespeare In Love" or need to impress your girlfriend with your sensitivity, then this probably isn't your cauldron of festering sewage. But if you're hankering for a bit of bare-knuckles film-making and a few ladles of ultraviolence, then this vid's for you. It's gory throughout, and for the hell scene near the end of the movie the film crew really pulls out all stops of depravity.This is the movie that all teenage boys dream about making. I am all the more impressed as I know how complicated and cumbersome video editing was in the early Nineties -- a lot more difficult than editing ordinary silver-halide film (keeping image and sound in synch was an absolute bitch of a task), and no comparison to today where you can just do it on your PC.Actually, for those of you unfamiliar with the trials and tribulations of linear video editing, let me provide you with a little 101 on the subject matter: while video made shooting a lot easier and cheaper, editing became hugely more complicated as on video the sound is about two seconds out of synch with the image, so after each cut the new scene would be silent for the first two seconds. Also, precise cutting is tricky, editing scenes in or out is nearly impossible, and the image quality degenerates quickly -- it's an absolute nightmare. This explains some of the strange technical features of this movie, they were necessary compromises which Ittenbach was forced to make, rather than cute idiosyncratic ideas of his: namely dubbed soundtrack, dictatorial scripting, and single-take scenes. The love and dedication that went into making this movie seems strangely at odds with the destructiveness and hate it narrates. I look forward to seeing more of Ittenbach's stuff.

campy low-budget splatter-flick that merits a rental fee only if your VCR has a good fast-forward button. highlights include: the incredibly cheesy dream segue between the serial killer and the girl he's stalking (German shepards running through grassy fields, etc.) and the utterly gratuitous and out-of-context 10-minute gore spectacular at the end of the movie. my friend and i hypothesize that the producers of this movie came up with all the gore footage and realized they couldn't release it without at least 80 more minutes of footage. hence the first 90% of the tape - utter tripe.

It is an amateur movie, with non-actors in the role. The main character is a junkie, forced to babysit his little sister and he terrorizes her by telling horrific stories. There are 2 stories and first is about a psychotic serial killer who terrorizes his blind date and her family. The second is about a serial killer priest who rapes and murders to cleanse their souls.It is very gory and boring in many parts. The second story has a extremely gory scene which is not for the faint of heart. However most of this movie is not worth watching.