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
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.
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.
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.
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…
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!
Quite villish. Think Dogtooth but transported to a future tense where books exist. Still something eerily, alienarily feral.
Generally well made and performed, good for a few laughs, and certainly weird. But I couldn't help but feel like it somehow wasn't weird enough. The ending felt like a bit of a shrug.
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.
