Ostermontag

This movie doesn't really deserve a long review. The acting and effects were very poor, even for 1990s, good gore effects are pretty important in a "snuff film" wannabe. The plot was also very choppy and unrealistic. Wouldn't recommend it to anyone looking for an "extreme" horror movie. Or honestly even a horror movie in general.

Ostermontag is basically a speed-run of horrific acts and extraordinary brutality; some moments present in this film, you will never see again. (Hopefully by choice.) The story is strange in the context of how its set up. Instead of making it all known immediately, the film takes it's sweet time showing all the atrocious gore effects and unbridled misogyny instead of evaluating the story further.

The story in question is broken up into parts, which Ostermontag occasionally hands us; the result is a narrative that takes far too long to get to the point and leaves too much ambiguous, so that all the horrors take center stage. This film very clearly only exists to disturb you.

The violence most times just feels mean-spirited. It almost feels like a hate crime toward women, through the sheer amount of violence that's dished out to them here. Luckily for those wondering, the gore effects aren't great, so it won't make your stomach churn nearly as much as you'd expect.

The acting is about what you'd expect to see from these kinds of shock reliant mulch; it's awful. Asides from maybe two or three horrifying moments, (Which are still over bloated, mind you.) the horrors become mind-numbing after a while because of all the blood that's being forced down your gullet. It becomes more tedious than scary.

Yeah, this is plain bad and i'd advise staying long and far away from this. But i know for some of you reading, that'll be the highest recommendation possible.

It's tough to rate a movie like "Ostermontag", because it basically does what it says on the tin. It's not meant to be clever, coherent or even entertaining. It's supposed to be disturbing, and it is. Writer/Director Heiko Fipper has created a very nasty experience. While most of the movie is tolerable because of the cheap effects and subpar acting, the ending scene is genuinely one of the most 'authentic' and nauseating things I've ever watched. It's almost like Fipper intentionally make the rest of his movie look fake just to shock us more with the ending. If so, well done I guess!

With that said, obviously this is a really bad movie. Most viewers don't understand the plot because you can only get this in German. I speak German and still don't understand much of the plot. It doesn't help that some characters look pretty similar, particularly when filmed with a toaster. In other words: for most of the time, I don't know who's doing what and why. To add insult to injury, the movie is very slow and most scenes go on for way too long. If you have this much filler and still only clock in at 64 minutes, you should probably write more.

Heiko Fipper only made one other movie. "Das komabrutale Duell" has a more comedic undertone and looks more like a lost Andreas Schnaas movie. "Ostermontag" is a much nastier watch though. If you're looking for something extreme it's definitely up your alley.