H-8...

A great and extremely tense Croatian film. At first we see the very end of the film however this takes absolutely nothing away from the uncertainty. If I have to look for flaws in this film then I would say that at times there are too many characters and stories to follow (there is no main character) and how the middle of the film is a little weaker than a great start as well as the third act when more things are revealed and the tension grows the closer we get to the very end of the film.

The most unfortunate thing is that a very few people (outside Croatia) will ever see this film. A thrilling little masterpiece, it has the best chance of being the best movie ever in Croatian poor filmography. Great movie!

Eternal glory to Nikola Tanhofer - died 1998.

I'm a big fan of the Yugoslav cinematography, it has provided a lot of masterworks throughout the country's short life span. Film making was treated as very important, almost like a vital industry, rather than just craft. Everything was usually on high level, acting, directing, editing, production, so it's not strange that even smaller movies were often quite good.

Knowing that, I was still surprised how excellent H-8 is. Quite original in its story and tone, it almost feels like an episode from The Twilight Zone, way before that show even existed. You are first given the facts, as on a police report, and then you get to see the actual stories of the passengers in the two collided vehicles, filling in the details who performed what action and why.

I can't believe that movie this good was never once mentioned anywhere in the anthologies of the Yugoslav film. I ran into it quite by accident, having no idea that it ever existed. My warm recommendation to anyone!

A disaster movie from Croatia. A quite interesting jewel that unfortunately only a few people have seen around the world. he character description is awesome, the same kind we could find in US disaster films such as AIRPORT series.

This is absolutely one of the greatest Croatian movies and there's no doubt about it. It doesn't slave to any politics, any specific time, any commercialism and nothing of that kind. But this movie achieves to play with the clichees and functionally use them, to show real-blood characters, to maintain the tempo and to build suspense. We need more master pieces like this for 40 years now (except 'Tko pjeva zlo ne misli' and a few other films)