David Lynch’s Eraserhead and David Cronenberg’s Naked
Lunch are close cousins to German filmmaker Nikias Chryssos’ debut
feature-film effort, Der Bunker, which will be making its
way to both DVD and Blu-ray on Aug. 23 courtesy of Artsploitation Films.
If you want strange, then join “Student” (played by Pit
Bukowski — Der Samurai, As We Were Dreaming), who is working on an
important research paper and needs a secluded place to stay to complete the
task. So it is almost too good to be
true when he answers an ad for a quiet, “lake view” apartment.
Instead, he finds a home in the woods and the apartment is
without windows in the basement. It is
quiet and it is secluded so he takes it anyway.
That should have been the first tip off that living with Mother
(Oona von Maydell), Father (David Scheller) and their eight-year old son — who
actually has a name — Klaus (Daniel Fripan), would have its “challenges.” Klaus, is not only odd, but he looks to be
in his mid-twenties.
Pretty soon Student not only has the task of completing his
research paper, but he somehow lets himself be talked into tutoring “little”
Klaus … who is not much of a student, but his parents have high hopes.
Oh, and did we mention that Mother has what appears to be an
infected, swollen leg, which
could — and we are being serious here (you gotta
think: Lynch; you gotta think: Cronenberg) — be home to an extraterrestrial who
goes by the name of Heinrich.
What other mysteries lurk in this “cabin in the woods!!!”
Der Bunker is presented in German with English subtitles.
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