Angst1983

Horror Vault's take

Told largely through the fractured inner monologue of a deeply disturbed man freshly released from prison, Angst plunges viewers into the mind of a killer as he descends on an isolated family home. Austrian director Gerald Kargl crafts a relentlessly uncomfortable character study that keeps the camera uncomfortably close to its subject, refusing to look away. The film is less interested in conventional thriller mechanics than in the raw, nauseating texture of compulsion and violence itself — a study in dread that lingers long after the final frame.

Content: Graphic Violence, Disturbing Depictions Of Mental Illness, Home Invasion Violence, Depictions Of Violence Against A Disabled Person, Deeply Unsettling Voiceover Narration Glorifying Violence