The Death King
1990 · Movie · NC-17 · 80 min · ★ 6.3 · 65% critics
This experimental horror drama is split into seven day-by-day episodes, each centered on suicide or violent death. Rather than tell one continuous story, it builds a bleak, unsettling portrait of despair through separate vignettes and recurring images of physical decay.
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Details
- Original title
- Der Todesking
- Years
- 1990
- Release date
- 1990-01-25
- Language
- German
- Rated
- NC-17
- Runtime
- 80 min
- Critic score
- 65/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 (76 votes)
About
You may connect with this if you appreciate disturbing, art-house horror in the vein of Nekromantik or Funny Games; Not for you if you want a clear narrative, lighter material, or an easy watch.
Pros: haunting atmosphere; bold anthology structure; thought-provoking themes | Cons: very depressing tone; uneven segments; slow pacing
Themes
- depression
- suicide
- skeleton
- life and death
- sadism
- suffocation
- revelation
- gore
- castration
- anthology
- pessimism
- crying
- +9 more
Cast & crew
- HE
Heinrich Ebber
as Tuesday
- AH
Angelika Hoch
as Saturday
- HK
Hermann Kopp
as Monday
- NP
Nicholas Petche
as Sunday
Eva-Maria Kurz
as Friday
Bela B.
as Singer
Jörg Buttgereit
as Torture Victim
Mark Reeder
as Soldier
Directed by Jörg Buttgereit