Plot

In HEILSTÄTTEN, a remote, gloomy sanctuary near Berlin, a group of YouTubers illegally access the ominous surgery block for a 24-hour challenge they hope will go viral. They learn too soon that they are not alone and not welcome.

In HEILSTÄTTEN, a remote and gloomy sanctuary near Berlin with a history full of horror and crimes against humanity, a group of YouTubers illegally access the ominous surgery block for a 24-hour challenge they hope will go viral. Equipped with night vision and thermal cameras the adolescent adrenaline junkies chase the rumors of paranormal activity in the rotting building, only to learn too soon that they are not alone... and not welcome. But it is too late to leave the premises alive.

Director/writer and genre specialist Michael David Pate made with his 2015 horror comedy KARTOFFELSALAT (POTATO SALAD) 3.8m EUR at the box office with nearly 500.000 sold tickets in Europe. Now he stages this low budget found footage horror thriller with an A-list German cast: international Emmy® award-nominee Sonja Gerhardt (KUDAMM 56, DEUTSCHLAND 83) delivers an intensive performance next to Tim Oliver Schultz (THE WAVE). Shot at original location "Heilstätte Grabowsee" near Berlin and produced by new genre production company Schmerbeck Entertainment, HEILSTÄTTEN makes it for entertaining paranormal horror cinema. The horror shocker HEILSTÄTTEN was released in Germany Feb22, 2018 by 20th Century Fox and attracted over 172.000 cinemagoers - a very positive result for German horror genre.

"Horror with message - with bitter humor, this genre film hold up YouTube videobloggers and their followers the mirror " (cinema) "What a location! Heilstäten has become a solid-shocking horror movie with beautiful haunting images of the YouTube generation." (BZ) "The dead spoken horror subgenre of found footage still works. This makes you feel so uncomfortable in the theater." (Leipziger Volkszeitung)