Strange, campy and a bit funny
13 October 2003
The german gore scene is not very big - the most movies go on the account of three directors: Jörg Buttgereit, Andreas Schnaas and Olaf Ittenbach. The later has been the most active in the last years, and it seems that his movies become (slightly) more professional. "Premutos" has a strange plot about a boy, who finds a magic book and summons an satanic angel called Premutos. But in fact it is kind of a funny movie with a lot of people being transformed to Zombies, who attack a small family. The movie contains a lot of gore; the humour does not function every time, and mostly the film is very gore. Scenes which I remind positive:

+ The films (anti)hero Mathias gets kicked in the balls when playing soccer and is then examined very gay urologist - to me the most funny scene in the movie. And it leads to the key scene - when he glues some old liquid to his balls, he is turning to the Überzombie.

+ In another scene the family celebrates the birthday of Walter, Mathias father. One guest is digging a booger out of his nose, forming it to a little ball and then flicks it into the mouth of his woman, who is suppressing him and also talking all the time.

+ There is one black actor, and I think even in the German version they dubbed him, because he has two voices - one with a very broad bavarian dialect, one in "normal" german

But these are only the best scenes. I did not like the final, when they take a tank to kill the zombies - it was just tooo unlikely and I didnot think it was very funny. And also very bad are the "historical" scenes of the subplot, which are based in the Time after Jesus Christs death and the battle of Stalingrad. Oh, and I think some of the side actors are even for a gore film to bad.
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