Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopathic cannibal family who want to turn them into sausages.
Blackest Heart, Massacre allemand à la tronçonneuse, 德国电锯狂, 德國電鋸狂
Germany Hofer Filmtage Germany16 Germany 
Nothing else like it. It's actually on a streaming platform in the US, so watch it while you can. Man I love Udo Kiers career.
german shite
Hooptober 12 💀 6/34 - (Extra Credit Assignment)
Has the energy and feel of an early Peter Jackson film but without the ingenuity of the New Zealand filmmaker.
I have to hand it to this Hooptober challenge because I probably would’ve never watched this one. There is plenty of satire that can be had with an idea like this, made in Germany, and one that takes so much influence from the thematically heavy Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But unfortunately it’s too shrill and bonkers for its own good, full of characters that you want to put on mute. Luckily the runtime for this one was only an hour.
Hallo Herr Schlingensief,
ich finde gut was sie sagen, aber ich mag einfach nicht wie sie mit mir reden.
special midnight screening on reunification day '23
alles was recht ist. alles was raus muss.
Hooptober 12, pt.2- HELLO FRAÜLEIN!!
1/3- Extra Credit
2nd Christoph Schlingensief (after Terror 2000)
Far more effective to me than Terror 2000 in no small part because it replicates the atmosphere of absolute insanity that Hooper achieved with the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Schlingensief’s film is, if anything, even more demented; just over an hour of demented jibbering, screaming and wailing by a group of backwoods West Germaners whose propensity for turning their Eastern neighbours into wurst feels entirely secondary to their homicidal rage and psychopathic family structure. Then again, everyone and everything seems to have gone bonkers with Reunification, even the old checkpoint guards. Every impulse is up for grabs, from sexual to financial to carnivorous, but for Schlingensief,…
Painful. If "The German Chainsaw Massacre" hadn't been so horrifically theatrical and so amateurishly executed, the movie could have had the potential to be a successful satire, with a few good ideas contributing to that. However, after an interesting start, the presented form quickly turns into a parade of unbearable overacting with endless whining and shouting.
Spooktober
One month of horror
Film 72: The German Chainsaw Massacre
Interesting, sleazy and artsy German splatter flick with political messages and social commentary.
This film might be one of the most special of my new discoveries since I’ve started this years Spooktober marathon.
,,The German Chainsaw Massacre‘‘ offers a lot of very weird scenes and vibes and I enjoyed most of them. The splatter scenes looked cheap but were great and the comedy elements also worked mostly for me.
It obviously got a lot of its inspiration from the original ,,Texas Chainsaw Massacre‘‘ film, but it’s still a unique experience on its own. And I can tell you, that the deranged family in this film is crazier than the one…
I certainly wouldn't want to disparage the spirit of the Reunification and what it means to many people, but I'm very much in tune with Schlingensief's anarchic renunciation of lazy identitarian ideology in service of the 'free market'. This film is hilarious. Just read that blurb. A psychotic Hinterwäldler butcher cult running around with chainsaws shrieking parliamentary rhetoric and being nonstop random for a whole hour in an abandoned factory backlot. The second part of a trilogy begun with the similarly deranged 100 Years of Adolf Hitler, this continues to build on the same actionist anti-structure dealing with the uncontainable 'excesses' in unrepresented interiorities as a performative. Schlingensief had watched bootleg copies of Hooper's TCM 1&2 and decided to literalize…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Hooptober 12 - Extra - Germany
Ironically enough, I do believe this one will divide a lot of folks!
What appears on the surface is a trashy, aggressively melodramatic, and absurd (bordering on arthouse) throwaway piece of exploitation... and there’s nothing wrong with that... but a little research reveals a (albeit heavy-handed) multilayered commentary on the maniacal, cannibalistic, and self-congratulatory triumphalism of the reunification of West and East Germany.
The message being that reunification is not a merging of equal ideologies but, disguised as a celebration, is in fact an all-out and joyous massacre of the other.
Super trashy though, which makes it hard to recommend… and not nearly enough Udo Kier! 🐷🪚
Hooptober XII: Incantations and Abominations 👹 (24/31) - Criteria: Extra Work 😈
The beauty of the Hooptober schedule is that sometimes you are thrown absolute weird curveballs like whatever this mad thing is lol. The German Chainsaw Massacre is absolutely wild but honestly I kind of dug this. Debatably more comedy-horror than horror-comedy, director Christoph Schlingensief was inspired by bootleg VHS copies of the original Texas Chainsaw and Hooper’s 1986 Cannon sequel in particular, finding that “superb for its richness in imagery and double entendres".
The film is chaotic, abrasive, and surreal, as Schlingensief blends horror, absurdism, and mad theatrics to bombard the viewer with a constant barrage of visual noise and ideological provocative images. The cinematography is raw and similar to…
Everything has an ending, only the sausage has two!
The only Texas Chain Saw Massacre remake.
