In a Glass Cage

Starring:GÃ¼nter Meisner, David Sust, Marisa Paredes, GisÃ¨le EchevarrÃa, Imma Colomer, Josue Guasch, David Cuspinera, Ricardo Carcelero, Alberto Manzano
Director: AgustÃ Villaronga
Studio: Cav Distribution
Product Type: DVD

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Ready Yourself For A Emotional Rollercoaster
Ugly but necessary
Worthless
Creepy and Not For the Squeamish
Gothic nightmare

In a Glass Cage
Starring: Günter Meisner , David Sust , Marisa Paredes , Gisèle Echevarría , and Imma Colomer
Director: Agustí Villaronga
Manufacturer: Cult Epics
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0001ZMXKE
Release Date: 2004-05-25

Description

Klaus (Gunter Meisner of THE BOYS OF BRAZIL) is an ex-Nazi, a doctor whose war-time post in a concentration camp enabled him to commit the most appalling sex crimes against boys. After the war, living incognito in Spain, he again gives in to his depraved desires, until shame and despair drive him to an unsuccessful suicide attempt...

Now confined to his room and kept alive on an iron lung, he is ministered to by his resentful wife Griselda (Marisa Paredes of ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER) and her daughter Rena (Gisela Echevarria). Into this environment comes Angelo (David Sust), a strange, handsome young man who offers his services as a nurse. Against Griselda's judgement, Klaus insists that the visitor be allowed to take the post.

A perverse relationship develops between Angelo and Klaus, becoming ever more macabre as Angelo reveals he has found diaries detailing his employer's war-time activities. Words turn to deeds, Klaus's shame turns once again to desire, and a new spate of child killings begin...

Described by filmmaker John Waters as more intense than Pier Paolo Pasolini's SALO.

Customer Reviews:

Ready Yourself For A Emotional Rollercoaster.......2007-07-06

Liking a good horror film I thought this might make for a good one. Fortunatly, reading previous reviews I was able to stomach my way through the worst scenes. I couldn't of imagined such horror (real life horror) on screen and all I wanted to yell at the screen was for someone to fight back ! You will be finding yourself scared, angry and in tears at the same time. Only a good movie can do that to you. I don't see how they could of made it any different. This movie won't be for everyone but if you think you have the stomach for it just remember its only a movie.

Ugly but necessary.......2007-03-17

This film has often been compared to Pasolini's Salo. Except for some superficial elements, they don't have much in common. Granted, those superficial elements are enormous and shocking, but the resemblance stops there. The Pasolini film is faithful to Sade in spirit and philosophy if not always in detail. This movie doesn't really go there at all. So the only thing they really have in common is the fact that the situations are disgusting and repulsive, but serious in intent.
The existence of good is validated by the existence of evil. And there can be no ultimate good without ultimate evil. Recommended reading: Simone de Beauvoir: Must We Burn Sade?

Worthless.......2007-01-04

Movies that show graphic child murder are worthless. I didn't bother finishing this one.

Creepy and Not For the Squeamish.......2006-10-28

The box for this DVD caught my eye immediately. I must confess I've always had a morbid interest in Nazi atrocity movies, although while watching them I usually find myself filled with disgust, and absolutely enraged that the participants of Hitler's war on decency were able to get as far as they did, and that so many of them got away with it. This film is described as a horror story and, on that level, it certainly delivers.

The narrative concerns a former Nazi named Klaus who took advantage of his position to indulge himself in the sadistic torture and sexual abuse of young boys. He continues his horrible blood-spree after the war, but in a fit of remorse, attempts suicide and winds up an invalid, confined to an iron lung (exactly how this happens was very unclear in the actual film - I rely on the accuracy of a review I read for this piece of plotline). His resentful wife and his small, shy daughter care for him, but long for a nurse to provide some relief. Enter a young man named Angelo who (we learn much later, but suspect from the moment of his introduction) was one of Klaus' few victims to survive meeting him. In a bizarre twist, the young man not only wants to perversely torture his tormentor in revenge, he also seeks to carry out similar crimes, acting out certain details in Klaus' diary exactly. Apparently Angelo's mind has been warped by his encounter with Klaus, and although he is horrified by the details, he is perversely excited by death, and seeks release by performing acts of cruelty in the presence of the man who treated him so badly so long ago. The result is a somewhat hard to follow but always absorbing shock-fest, which succeeds for its gory excesses if nothing else. It has more than its share of difficult-to-watch horror scenes, and one perfectly unforgettable scene in which Angelo murders Klaus' wife, and then ingeniously uses her corpse to exact a horrifying revenge. The contemplation of this scene alone chilled me to the bone and ruined my sleep for more than one night.

One aspect of it bothered me even more. This is NOT a gay film; I certainly don't view Klaus -who is married and has a daughter - as anything but a sadistic heterosexual child molester, who happens to favor little boys as his victims. Yet it is aggressively being marketed as a "gay film" and I, for one, resent the fact that some people seem to see it that way merely because the sadistic child molester victimizes boys. The young actor who plays Angelo is quite handsome, but his actions are far too cruel, sadistic and depraved for anyone but a full-blown masochist to find him erotically stimulating.

If you want a fully realized and graphically bloody horror film, you will enjoy this picture very much. However, if you find this shocker even slightly erotic, I suggest you check out a good therapist on the way home.

Gothic nightmare.......2006-03-13

An underappreciated exploration of the self-perpetuating nature of evil. In many ways a good old-fashioned gothic horror movie that many may find perverse. Yes, the imagery is nightmarish. But to my mind that's what makes the movie unforgettable. Some of the imagery is evocative of the great 20th Century artist Balthus. Only the last quarter of the film is disappointing. There's lots of prancing around the decaying villa, and the film seems to lose its focus.