Overview
A chilling exploration of a man's descent into madness and violence after prison.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Breakneck
- Intensity
- Extreme
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Graphic
- harrowing
- visceral
- paranoid
- extreme horror marathon
- arthouse horror night
What critics said
Critics broadly acclaim the film for its immersive psychopath-centered writing, harrowing performances, cinematography, and formally audacious generation of terror and revulsion.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The psychopath's narration and interior thoughts make the audience experience his compulsions and lack of remorse from within.
The camera stays close to the psychopath during attacks and circles buildings and landscapes in swooping, disorienting pans.
The home invasion, knife attacks, and bodily struggle generate terror through graphic, physically immediate depictions of sadistic violence.
Flashbacks to the psychopath's abusive mother and grandmother accompany his renewed compulsion to kill.
Films like Angst, and why
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
shares a psychologically immersive serial-killer perspective, documentary realism, and transgressive violence
Man Bites Dog
shares sadistic crime horror, oppressive subjectivity, and a bleak portrait of antisocial violence
The House That Jack Built
shares extreme psychological horror, bodily vulnerability, and formally aggressive visual style
Funny Games
shares claustrophobic home-invasion terror, brutal realism, and an unsettling killer-centered viewpoint
Movie Details
- Director
- Gerald Kargl
- Release Date
- 1983-01-01
- Runtime
- 75 min
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 (444)
Cast
- Erwin Leder
- Robert Hunger-Bühler
- Silvia Rabenreither
- Karin Springer
- Edith Rosset
- Josefine Lakatha
- Rudolf Götz
- Renate Kastelik
- Hermann Groissenberger
- Claudia Schinko
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Night Flight Plus, Midnight Pulp, Midnight Pulp Amazon Channel
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Angst about?
- A relentlessly subjective Austrian crime horror film follows a newly released murderer whose compulsions erupt into a sadistic rural home invasion.
- What is Angst like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Angst as breakneck, its intensity as extreme and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Angst violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Angst as graphic.
- What did critics think of Angst?
- Critics broadly acclaim the film for its immersive psychopath-centered writing, harrowing performances, cinematography, and formally audacious generation of terror and revulsion.
- Which films are like Angst?
- Films with a similar feel include Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Man Bites Dog, The House That Jack Built, and Funny Games.
- How long is Angst?
- Angst runs 75 minutes.
- Where can I watch Angst?
- In United States, Angst streams on Night Flight Plus, Midnight Pulp, Midnight Pulp Amazon Channel.
