Germany has given the world some of its finest filmmakers, Lotte Reiniger, Ernst Lubitsch, Douglas Sirk, Wim Wenders, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, to name but a few, as well as groundbreaking movements like German Expressionism and New German Cinema. The country has also produced some of the best horror movies in history, from terrifying silent classics about the supernatural to gripping crime thrillers and nerve-shredding cyberpunk tales.
While it's impossible to cover the depth and breadth of German horror movies in a short list, we can touch on some of the greats. Listed below are the 12 best German horror movies. All of these films prove that horror has always been political, mining the fears and anxieties of the times in which they were created to make a point about the world around us and that the genre has always been — and always will be — a vital part of movie history.
While it's impossible to cover the depth and breadth of German horror movies in a short list, we can touch on some of the greats. Listed below are the 12 best German horror movies. All of these films prove that horror has always been political, mining the fears and anxieties of the times in which they were created to make a point about the world around us and that the genre has always been — and always will be — a vital part of movie history.
- 1/15/2023
- by Jessica Scott
- Slash Film
If, during a particularly dreary drive, you videotaped 80 uninterrupted minutes of roadside forests while the radio switched between trance music and political rants, you might end up with something like The Scar. Westberlin (West).
Bent on tracing the exact path of the 156-kilometer demarcation line that split East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, Burkhard von Harder took a helicopter ride one gray January morning in 2009 over snow-clogged Berlin, and, visually, that's the entire film: aerial shots of the highways, rivers, industrial lots, and residential neighborhoods along the perimeter of the former Berlin Wall.
Throughout, FM Einheit's distorted electronic rock adds to the gloom, and every so often underground news broadcasts, government-intercepted phone ...
Bent on tracing the exact path of the 156-kilometer demarcation line that split East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, Burkhard von Harder took a helicopter ride one gray January morning in 2009 over snow-clogged Berlin, and, visually, that's the entire film: aerial shots of the highways, rivers, industrial lots, and residential neighborhoods along the perimeter of the former Berlin Wall.
Throughout, FM Einheit's distorted electronic rock adds to the gloom, and every so often underground news broadcasts, government-intercepted phone ...
- 11/20/2013
- Village Voice
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