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ACTOR
ManoushAndreas PapeInés ZahmoulAnna Habeck
DIRECTOR
Marcel Walz
SYNOPSICS
La petite mort (2009) is a German movie. Marcel Walz has directed this movie. Manoush,Andreas Pape,Inés Zahmoul,Anna Habeck are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2009. La petite mort (2009) is considered one of the best Horror,Thriller movie in India and around the world.
Three friends, Simon, Nina and Dodo, travel to Mallorca but their flight is delayed in Frankfurt. Accidentally they get mugged and wind up at a restaurant called "Maison de la Petite Mort", a notorious venue where members of the Elite Class secretly meet in the basement for bloody games of perversion.
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A Review by Tim Wambolt
Imagine a film similar to "Hostel", but made in Germany by the true masters of splatter, from the director of Tortura, the special effects master of Dard Divorce and presented by the director of Torched. Happy New Year! Last year director Marcel Walz made a movie called "Tortura" featuring a group of psychopaths with a sadistic blood lust. They snip off a man's fingers, cut off his nipple, saw off his foot, wrap him in plastic and leave him to bleed to death in an alley. After that they abduct three girls, ripping out the first girl's tongue and forcing her to slit her own throat while they disembowel her. Then they peel the skin off of the second girl's arm and rip out her eyeball. Then, they force the third girl to stab the second girl to death. It was a very violent movie! And now with "La Petite Mort", director Marcel Walz takes torture to new heights with help from the master of gore himself, Olaf Ittenbach! In La Petite Mort, three friends, Simon, Nina and Dodo are traveling to the beautiful city of Mallorca in Spain for their summer vacation. Along the way, their flight gets delayed in Frankfurt Germany where they end up getting mugged. Depressed, they stop in for a drink at the "Maison de la petit mort," (meaning house of the Little Death, a metaphor for a sexual orgasm). A torture-for-profit place of business run by Lady Boss Madame Fabienne (played by the talented actress Manoush) who, along with her two crazy daughters, inflict acts of terror too unspeakable to mention by any decent human being with morals. That being said, I shall now mention some examples. To start things off, one of the victims is silenced with a mouse trap on the tongue while another victim is getting stabbed in the arm with hundreds of needles. After that, Olaf Ittenbach kicks the gore factor into high gear as we witness a man getting his eyeball stabbed and cut out with a knife. Luckily for him now he won't have to witness his manhood being taken away as the killers graphically cut his penis in half and rip out his intestines! And if that wasn't enough for you, another victim gets brutally scalped until her brains are exposed like a Hannibal Lector lobotomy,leaving her alive just long enough to scream one last time before her throat is sliced open! Next on the menu, a woman's arm is shoved into a meat grinder, and she is forced to drink her own blood while her hand is being mangled into a mess of bloody ground beef. Meanwhile, another victim is beaten repeatedly with a hammer until brain matter is falling out of the victim's skull, similar to the bludgeoning in "Seed" but minus the CGI. Without giving anything else away, La Petite Mort, needless to say is a must own for gore hounds and fans of Olaf Ittenbach's special effects! Presented by Ryan Nicholson, filmed in high definition on a hand-held camera in widescreen letterbox format and color corrected in a cinematic green tint, La Petite Mort adds a professional motion picture look to the underground gore scene. My screener came boxed and signed by Manoush herself! If you thought Tortura was very violent movie you may (or may not) be happy to know that Marcel Walz outdid himself with La Peite Mort! I can't wait to see what kind of sick, depraved filth he comes up with next!
worth watching as a gorehound
I have seen Marc Waltz Road Rip and it wasn't my thing, there wasn't any red stuff available. But here he got the help of Ittenbach, so you know it could contain some bloody stuff. Luckily for Marc it did. The other problem with German flicks is that they mostly are spoken in German and never have any subtitles. But this flick was also released outside Germany and that version did contain subs. There are some famous German names in this flick like Manoush and Thomas Kercmar, sadly Thomas (Barricade, Angel Of Death 2) couldn't convince me and that's a bit sad, most of the acting is mediocre, you can see them watching were they have to say their line. The story itself is okay but it's a bit of the same, youth walking around and making the wrong turn. Here they arrive in a city to take a plane for their holiday but they have all the day to visit the city because their plane leaves at evening and it's only morning. They decide not to go shopping but to walk around. By entering a club things go wrong. But it's the gore that delivers and makes it watchable. Don't get me wrong, it isn't bad but it goes a bit slow sometimes. Nevertheless, there are some gory typical Ittenbach shots in it that makes it a worth hunt down for the gorehounds. It's not that easy to find a copy outside Germany, I found it at a German horror convention were a Swedish shop sold copies of it. Gore 3/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 4/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5
Has some guilty pleasure potential
Maybe the best thing about the 75-minute film "La petite mort" (an orgasm metaphor referring to the sexual parts of the movie) is that it does not take itself seriously at all. It's offensive against males and females equally, nobody can actually be offended. Manoush's character had me glued to the screen because it's such a hysterical character, while Habeck had me glued to the screen for other reasons. She's pretty stunning. The director is Marcel Walz who started filmmaking a t a very young age already. He was in his early 20s when this was made and has written and directed no less than 15 films in the last 10 years, one of the big names in the German gore movie industry. This film here has a trio of young people including a blind woman and a couple, having a nice time during a vacation. Lots of harmony and positive atmosphere early on, but things get rough pretty quickly. Pretty much everything except the first 15 minutes take place at the torture club and the ending is already told us in the very first minute in a similar manner like "Blair Witch Project". Everything from that moment on is pretty much torture porn and very graphic. Stay away if you cannot deal with murder and the likes of a tongue being put into a mousetrap. There is no graphic nudity, but the film is packed with tight clothes and suggestive camera angles. The male protagonist is played by Andreas Pape, also a prolific actor and filmmaker in these kinds of films. The two girls are not that well known. And Thomas Kercmar has a cameo as well playing a lustful kobold in possibly the most hilarious sequences of the film. He is another example of how this movie does not take itself seriously at all. Also pay attention how one of the girls manages to flee when she is alone with the kobold. This would not have happened with any of the consequent females around. You could occasionally see this film as men-hating, but looking at the way Manoush's character talks about females as well, it's really against both genders, so nobody should really be offended as I wrote earlier. There's also some major plot weaknesses in this film, but it's surprisingly irrelevant as the whole thing is so absurd. For example during one situation, a girl basically has her skull smashed repeatedly, but still she is pretty much fine shortly afterward, physically and mentally. Or look at the irony of the one girl with moral doubts actually being the one who gets the final kill. Not too long ago, a sequel came out which is not half as good as this film. This one here is one of these movies where you cannot look, but also cannot look away. So yeah, recommended, I guess.
An interesting nasty experience
I was attracted to this film by (a) the fact that two of the lead roles were performed by a Magdalena Kalley and Annika Strauss who both impressed me with their performances in Unrated: The Movie (b) I had heard good reports about the special effects work of Olaf Ittenbach and the director Marcel Walz (c) the main leads included Manoush and Andreas Pape who are two actors who can be guaranteed to give top class performances in any role. The first 15 minutes of the film is devoted to an introduction to the quiet lives of three ordinary young people. The subdued, relaxed mood suddenly changes with an encounter in an alleyway with a mugger with an introduction of tension to their relationships which is then developed with a subsequent visit to a rather seedy establishment. From that moment, the viewer realises that the trio are in for a rather troublesome and painful experience. This scenario provides special effects master craftsman Olaf with the opportunity to really let rip with a barrage of gory goodies. At some points in the film, the bits and pieces were coming apart and flying around so fast that it was difficult to keep track where they were originating from. This was aided by some accomplished camera-work. The producers really presented an ace card when they cast Manoush in the role of the mother. I cannot envisage any other actress playing this role as effectively as Manoush. It was tailor made for her. Her performance was enhanced by some excellent close up camera work to capture her expressions. The film has English subtitles but they were not needed when Manoush is on screen because the sinister look she projects when directed at the camera or the person she is performing opposite speaks for itself. There is no mistaking the message that she is conveying! Full marks to Magdalena and Annika in their roles as the wicked daughters. Their attractive appearance certainly contrasts dramatically and sharply with their dark and demented attitude and the relish in the way that they go about the tasks assigned to them by their mother. Their performances in this film fulfilled my high expectations and prompted me to make a note to look out for the next film in which they appear together, ie Game Over. It is always pleasing to find ones attention attracted by a 'new' name on the list of credits as a result of a noteworthy performance. Anna Habeck in the role of Dodo, one of the trio, caught my attention on this occasion and I will certainly be seeking out her next release titled 'Popular' when it becomes available. This is also directed by Marcel Walz.