2015 ‘Der Bunker’ Directed by Nikias Chryssos
A student moves in with a family that lives in an underground house in the middle of the forest, far from civilization. His hopes of peace and quiet are soon shattered, when it becomes apparent that both the parents and their son have a screw loose.
O Bunker, A bunkerbe zárva, Bunker
Netherlands16
Imagine Film Festival
Germany12
USAPG-13
Netherlands16
Germany
Netherlands
USA
This German dark comedy kicks off with a student who is looking for a quite isolated place to work on his scientific project stumbles upon a family of three who happenes to have an isolated bunker, so he decides to move in but is unable to pay rent so the parents of an 8 year old kid klaus(the role that is played by a 30 year or so old guy) talks him into teaching him, the first quarter of the film is funny but as the plot introduces us to (Daniel Fripan) klaus things start getting darker, weirder and perverse with plenty of moments where you can't think of anything but say Wtf is this.
The performances here are top…
Allein, dass ein solcher Film hierzulande endlich wieder machbar ist und ein Publikum findet, sollte das deutsche Cineastenherz vor Dankbarkeit beinah zerspringen lassen. Irgendwo zwischen Loriot, Cronenberg, Lynch, von Trier und Lanthimos hat diese wunderbare Groteske ihren Platz eingenommen und ist interessanterweise so urdeutsch wie der erstgenannte Herr von Bülow es war. Ob es gleichsam für eine zeitlose Wirkung reicht, bleibt abzuwarten, ebenso wie es sich mit dem nun wohl allseits viel zu beäugenden Nachfolger verhalten wird.
Indeed this is a bizarre and dark piece of work. I had no idea what I was getting myself into with this one. We have a generic student as our main character. We never learn his name. He needs a place for his studies and thinks he is getting a decent room with a lakefront view. 😂Well, what he’s really getting is a bunker, a bizarre ass family, and some pseudo-man-child.
This film is messed up on so many crazy levels with a disturbing mother/son relationship. The mother takes it to a whole insane level with her son. Our generic student is lured into tutoring this man-child.
This is just a dark, creepy, sometimes funny- off the wall film. If someone changed my accommodations to a bunker- I know I wouldn’t stay to see what unfolds.
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The Baby meets Clifford, and anyone who knows me knows that I'm obsessed with both those films. So needless to say I love Der Bunker it's awesome.
Had my eye on this for awhile and figured I should finally get around to it. And for the most part it’s decent. The first half I think works a lot better than the second. Somewhere along the line though and with the introduction of Heinrich I found this to get a bit tedious in its presentation and how it went about wrapping up the story. I do like that it’s humorous at times and it’s full of weird little things to keep your face in a constant “wtf” expression but it doesn’t go as fully bizarre as it could or should have.
Dead By Dawn 2016 Film # 8
The feature debut from German director Nikais Chryssos is quirky and absurd, a pitch black horror-comedy that charms and disturbs in equal measures.
An unnamed student played by Pit Bukowski is looking for a place of solitude, preferably somewhere with a nice view where her can live and work in peace. When he arrives at the home of Father (David Scheller) and Mother (Oona von Maydell), it's not the digs he expected. Moving in with the strange family of three into some sort of fallout bunker in the middle of the snowbound German wilderness, the location may be ideal for peace and quiet but the family have other ideas. Student is soon talked…
Hätte mir jemand gesagt, dass es in einem Film, wo ein Außerirdischer aus dem offenen Bein einer Frau spricht, die ihrem offensichtlich Anfang 30jährigen Sohn in inzestiöser Beziehung die Brust darbietet, eine Szene gibt, die mich zutiefst rühren wird (Poesiealbum) und ich ehrliches Interesse am Schicksal der Figuren entwickeln werde, ich hätte ihn ausgelacht. Und dann beschämt geschwiegen, denn die Person hätte recht gehabt.
certainly no dogtooth (2009), but i hold quite an interest in the niche genre of films where parents isolate and suppress their kid(s) and treat them like they’re little children when they’re actually 20+ :) so i enjoyed this!
Really on the fence with this one. Had a ton of potential but found it to be kinda stuck in this middle point where it needed to either go in one of two directions:
1) strip back to one creepy idea and go full on Michael Haneke on that shit. Just dry it up, make it minimal and harsh.
or
2) add way more twists, weird details, and as many loose ends as possible to really take me somewhere.
I thought the acting was all decent, but I was especially surprised by Klaus. That dude is super creepy, looks 35, and is playing an 8 year old boy. Somehow he really stole the show for me. As you watch the…
Ein ganz großartiger deutscher Genre-Film, der nicht nur an David Lynch und seinen "Eraserhead" erinnert, sonder als eine Fortsetzung im Geiste fungiert. Starke Bilder, starke Themen wie Bildung, Erziehung und Elternsein paaren sich mit einer morbiden, verklemmten Stimmung.
Der Film verarbeitet dabei seine eigene Herkunft auf eine für mich ungewöhnliche Weise. Während deutsches Kino sonst oft in historischen Kontexten nach der deutschen Identität sucht, schafft es "Der Bunker" diese Suche in seine mysteriösen Stimmung und Geschichte zu verpacken.
Wenn der Vater beispielsweise mit einem sorgfältig geschminkten Clowns-Gesicht altbackenen Humor aus einem Witzebuch rezitiert, sein Publikum zum Lachen nicht nur auffordert, sondern fast schon nötigt, nur um im selben Moment den Witz mit kleinbürgerlichem Pseudobildungstum zu erklären, dann frohlockt das Herz!…
The things we witnessed in Der Bunker was both weird and serious all at the same time.
The movie had a weird feeling of strangeness and funny moments. Yet it held a tone of serious moments within as well. Not completely scary, just other unsettling and offbeat.
The characters were interesting ones, especially that of the nameless student and Klaus. A strange family to say the least and possibly a coming of age. This movie does dive into a horror element closing in on the 20 minute mark to watch out for.
Overall, the movie was a good one. You'll get taken back by the images and context of the family dynamic but soon you'll be involved with this just like the student himself.
