Antibodies

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First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: No
Watched With: Myself

A neat little German psychological thriller in the vein of Seven or Silence of the Lambs. Very dark serial killer story with a small town cop mixed up in the proceedings and forced to confront the evil inside himself. There's a battle of faith thrown into the mix here too.

I figured out the main mystery very early on, so that revel held no suspense for me but thankfully the film a a few tricks up it's sleeve and threw some curveballs at the end that I didn't see coming. The good kind too, that actually unify the thematic motifs, not just thrown in to trick an audience at the expense of making sense.

I think the religious metaphors got far too heavy handed at the end. But apart from that this was a slickly produced thriller that has some great moments. A more serious work from Christian Alvart, who went on to make the delightfully demented and overlooked Case 39 as well as the sci-fi horror Pandorum. This one is well worth a look for fans of the genre and easy to see why Hollywood snapped him up.