"Kondom des Grauens" or "Killer Condom" from 20 years ago is a German movie directed and written by Martin Walz together with Ralf König who is the author of the comic that this film is based on. It runs for 105 minutes basically, which I personally found way too long given that the film had nothing to offer. There are moments of horror, moments of drama, moments of mystery and science-fiction, but it does not deliver enough (in terms of quality and quantity) in any of these areas that I would say it is a fitting genre description. The only thing I can see it as is a comedy movie. The title character comes to life and does the unspeakable act when put where it usually belongs. No need to further elaborate on that. As a direct consequence, a police officer tries to find out what is actually going on and runs into all kinds of bizarre people and situations on the way to finding the truth, even something involving God at the very end. Oh well.. that has to happen when it is all about a carnivorous condom. How much you will like or dislike this movie has to do with and all comes down to how funny you will find the humor in here. I personally did not find it funny at all. And that is also why nothing stays apart from strange sexual (frequently disturbing and disgusting) references that make up this film. And the desperate attempt of being funny while not succeeding at all. Nothing worse than that. It says a lot that the cast includes mostly actors who usually score through charisma and not through range, such as the incredibly overrated Iris Berben. Sucks to see Leonard Lansink in here though. He is much much better than the level of this movie. As a whole, I give it a major thumbs down and ask... no beg you to watch something else other than this complete mess we have here. Watched it the second time today, many years after the first and it was just as bad. The only somewhat good thing was "Killing Me Softly", but of course no credit can go to the filmmakers for this song.
Review of Killer Condom
