Schramm1993

Horror Vault's take

Lothar Schramm is an unremarkable taxi driver on the outside — quietly neighbourly, seemingly harmless — yet behind closed doors his inner world is one of profound dysfunction and lethal compulsion. Director Jörg Buttgereit peels back the mundane surface of a serial killer's existence, offering a deeply unsettling portrait of a man whose violence and sexual pathology are inseparable. Shot with an almost clinical intimacy, the film refuses conventional thriller plotting in favour of raw, fragmented dread. It is less a murder story than a descent into the psychological wreckage that makes such a man possible.

Content: Graphic Violence, Gore, Sexual Violence, Nudity, Drugging Of Victims, Disturbing Sexual Content, Body Horror Imagery