Thomas Krömer follows the traces of a brutal murder in werewolf-manner out of personal interest. After investigating for some time, the traces all point to one person: himself. Now, he has to find out whether he surprisingly turns into a blood-seeking werewolf at full moon without knowing it or if there is an other solution to the murders. Police are getting pretty suspicious after Thomas' own grandmother has been brutally slaughtered in her little fairy-tale-fashioned house in the woods, and it will soon be time for a full moon...
Acting
Pre-Hollywood Christoph Waltz being deliciously shifty.
Production
Grimm-inspired grandma's house sets dripping with dread.
Direction
Fratzscher's restrained ambiguity: is it supernatural or psychosis?
Director
Peter Fratzscher
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Christoph Waltz's second collaboration with Fratzscher; he reportedly took the role because he found the script's ambiguity 'morally slippery.'
Released during Germany's 1990s 'New Gothic' wave, it deliberately evokes the Black Forest's folkloric tradition of lycanthropy as class anxiety—the wolf as both predator and outcast.
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