In truly huge news for film fans, Cult Epicsthe boutique label who brought Jörg Buttgereit’s Nekromantik films to U.S. bluhas announced an August Blu-ray and DVDate, as well as summer theatrical bookings for Gerald Kargl’s crucial, Austrian home invasion classic Angst.
The 1983 film, often cited by Irreversible and Enter the Void‘s Gaspar Noé as a tremendous influence (he’s quoted on the cover), is a truly, truly unreal piece of work. Based on the exploits of Austrian killer Werner Kniesek (his statements and those of German Vampire of Düsseldorf Peter Kürten are used in the voiceover), Angst aims to take you through the actions of a murderer like few have before; by essentially, giving that madman the wheel. The film stars Erwin Leder in a truly unhinged performance as a recently released insane killer who immediately acts on murderous impulse. The man breaks into what he believes to be an unoccupied home a massively visceral, upsetting ordeal ensues.
Fangoria brought word of the Blu, as well as the screenings which begin June 10th at Los Angeles’ Cinefamily. That screening will see an appearance from Angst cinematographer Zbigniew Rybczynski, whose work in the film remains both incredible and destabilizing. The Blu will include “an optically restored murder scene and the option to play the movie with or without its prologue, audio commentaries, interviews with Kargl (conducted by Buttgereit) and Leder and more.
For more on Angst, I previously wrote on the film at Fango here.
