The purposeful overacting was just too much for me. Everything about the film was intently over the top. The location of a wall divided Berlin was nice, the effects by Carlo Rambaldi were perfect and there were certainly some immensely perverse moments which were undoubtedly the highlight of the film, along with the infamous subway tunnel scene. Far too much time is spent repeatedly showing marital strops and demented women normally annoy me, as was the case here. The ending was unexplainable and I doubt even the writer knew what was going on. The editing was purposefully disjointed in a way that perfectly accentuated the bizarre atmosphere of the film. While reminiscent of Russell’s The Devils and Cronenberg’s The Brood this is definitely a unique film, but not a particularly good one.
3/5
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