Luzifer2021
Directed by Peter Brunner
🏆 5 wins & 9 nominations
The premise
Johannes, an innocent, Kaspar Hauser-like man with the heart of a child, lives secluded in an alpine hut together with his eagle and his devout mother. Daily life in this isolated world is governed by prayer and ritual. But suddenly, modern objects and disruptive noises intrude between nature and worship. A tourist development threatens to poison their paradise and awaken the devil.
Horror Vault's take
High in the Austrian Alps, a childlike man and his deeply devout mother have carved out a hermetic existence of prayer, nature, and ritual — a fragile paradise insulated from the outside world. When the machinery of modern tourism begins to encroach on their mountain sanctuary, the delicate balance of their sacred life starts to crack in deeply disturbing ways. Director Peter Brunner crafts a slow-burn study of spiritual vulnerability and creeping dread, anchored by a raw, physical performance from Franz Rogowski. What follows is a hypnotic, deeply unsettling portrait of what happens when the profane invades the holy.
Content: Disturbing Psychological Content, Depictions Of Religious Obsession, Animal Imagery, Scenes Of Distress
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