Horror Vacui

Horror Vacui

1984•1h 25m•4.6/10

Horror

Ratings

🎬TMDb

4.6/10(7)

Shot in a neo-expressionist style, the film is a satire on cults of any kind. The plot follows Frankie and Hannes, a young gay couple living in Berlin. One is studying art and the other medicine. Their happy life is disrupted when Frankie attends a lecture and quickly becomes involved in a sinister cult operating as a self-help group called “Optimal Optimism”. Madame C, a former Nazi party member, is the leader of Optimal Optimism. When the cult members discovers that Frankie is gay, he is repeatedly raped by both men and women of the group. Hannes must find a way to rescue him.

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Production

Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion, WDR

Language

DE

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Lotti Huber

Joaquin La Habana

Folkert Milster

Friedrich Steinhauer

Friedrich Steinhauer

Günter Thews

Ingrid van Bergen

Ingrid van Bergen

Tom Vogt

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