Monday, June 22, 2020

He loved to saw the women

This is disturbed. And grotesque. Reeks of putrefaction and gore. A based-on-a-true-story serial killer flick set in the 70s Hamburg, Germany. Zum Goldenen Handschuh is a run-down bar to all the hopeless alcoholics in the St. Pauli district, among them Fritz Honka, a hobbit-looking weirdo who has the taste for assaulting women, chopping them up and keeping all the good bits. This is a movie to get easily disgusted with, but you kinda get drawn into its graphic brutal atmosphere.

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