Translated into English the original title becomes "The German Chainsaw
Massacre", and is a clear and wanted reference to Texas Massacre.
Now, don’t be impetuous in your opinion because it isn’t a
copy, but is the means that the unfortunate "bad boy" of German cinema
Christoph Schlingensief, used to laugh at and criticize the union of
the two "Germanies".
Part of the trilogy on his nation, this film also known as "Blackest Heart" is 1990a splatter that makes low-budget his creed.
Everything is extremely minimal, the film used, the few locations not to mention the special effects.
Objectively, it is not a pretty vision, because soon the story diverged
in a massacre where everyone screams and are the butchers or are
slaughtered.
The good things are that is a very short movie and that it have
exquisitely ironic and pungent aftertaste that makes us forgive the
ugliness of style.
A merciless criticism and the reunification of the two Germanys, on the
one hand those of the East on their (fantastic) Trabant fleeing to the
West, and the other, at least a small group, ready to exploit the new
arrivals to make sausages. In short, capitalism without limits.
In between there are some nice moments as border guards of the East who do not want to realize that everything has changed.
The activity of making sausages with newcomers is the work of a family
that reminds partly that of Texas, having also a Leather Face. They
welcome their compatriots of the East bringing them in a sordid
abandoned industrial area where they killed.
This group includes Clara who is spared but imprisoned because the daughter of the family fell in love with her.
Then it's up to the girl, trying to fix things.
Great cast of actors among which there are Eva Maria Kurz, Karina
Fallenstein and good Udo Kier. A good way to get into the cinema of an
interesting director controversial and unconventional died prematurely
at only forty-nine.
Technical Data Sheet
Original Title: Das deutsche Kettensägen Massaker
Alternate Titles: Das deutsche Kettensägenmassaker (Germany),
Massacre allemand à la tronçonneuse (France), Blackest
Heart, The German Chainsaw Massacre (USA)
Country: Germany
Year: 1990
Director: Christoph Schlingensief
Cast: Karina Fallenstein, Susanne Bredehöft, Artur Albrecht, Volker Spengler, Alfred Edel, Brigitte Kausch, Udo Kier
Duration: 63