ANGST (aka FEAR aka SCHIZOPHRENIA) - 9/10
Weird ass camera work, strange atmosphere, music by KLAUS SCHULZE.
Film director Gaspar Noe has cited Angst as an influence on his filmmaking style. He has been quoted several times talking about the film:- "There's another film called "Angst" or "Fear" which in France was called "Schizophrenia" but it was banned theatrically. It's got an X-rating so it never came out. It could maybe come out today. It's Austrian. One of the masterpieces of the decade. The director never did another movie though. He had too many debts so he stopped directing."
- "Then there's an Austrian movie, Angst. It's about a man killing a family just in order to go back to prison, where he felt better. It's like a very dark, European version of Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer, but much more baroque in its filming. It was banned all over the world - even in France it was one of the last movies to be X-rated for extreme violence. I think it's going to be rediscovered everywhere in the next few years."
Anyway, this is indispensible, if you're into films like MANIAC and HENRY and other classics and want to see an obscure, lost classic.. check it out.
