The German Chainsaw Massacre


The German Chainsaw Massacre - The First Hour of the Reunification, also known as Blackest Heart in the United States, is a 1990 German horror film written and directed by Christoph Schlingensief and starring Karina Fallenstein, Alfred Edel, Udo Kier and Irm Hermann. It is the second film in Schlingensief's Deutschlandtrilogie.

Plot

The film depicts events around the German reunification of 1990 and focuses on a group of East-Germans who cross the border to visit West-Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopathic West German cannibal family with chainsaws who want to turn them into sausages.

Cast

Schlingensief conceived the idea for the film after he had viewed bootleg copies of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and its sequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and found the second film to be "superb for its richness in imagery and double entendres". He wrote the script in a matter of days after the German reunification.

Reception

Time Out lauded the film as "abrasive, relentless, cruelly funny and enjoyably deranged." The film was leveled with a legal complaints of "glorification of violence" upon its release in Germany.