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Writers:
Dag Molin (writer)
Dick Randall (writer)
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Release Date:
May 1974 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Meat is Meat, But This Sausage is Special! more
Plot:
After being released from a mental hospital, Otto returns to his old job as a butcher. He tries to adjust to his new life... more | add synopsis
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Macabre black comedy with Victor Buono in fine form as a Sweeney Todd-type Austrian butcher. more (14 total)

Cast

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Victor Buono ... Otto Lehman

Brad Harris ... Mike Lawrence
Franca Polesello ... Hanna Lehman
Karin Field ... Berta (as Karen Field)
Carl Stearns
Sybil Martin
Michael Turner
Arthur Mann
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Tina Buranzo (as Tina Buronzo)
Hansi Linder
Dario Michaelis
Dino Peretti
Giacomo Pergola
Luca Sportelli
Claudio Trionfi
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Der Würger kommt auf leisen Socken (West Germany)
Meat Is Meat
The Mad Butcher
The Mad Butcher of Vienna
The Strangler of Vienna
The Vienna Strangler
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Runtime:
83 min | UK:84 min | USA:81 min
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Edited into Extra Weird (2003) (V) more

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Macabre black comedy with Victor Buono in fine form as a Sweeney Todd-type Austrian butcher., 15 July 2000
7/10
Author: Wilbur-10 from London

Odd blend of black humour and gruesomeness featuring a good, over-the-top performance from Buono, whose bulk and mild manner make for an effective psychopath.

The story is a Sweeney Todd rehash that catches the sinister aspects, while retaining the comic elements and being relatively gore-free.

Otto Lehman is shown to be sexually inadequate and belittled by his wife, resorting to voyeurism to satisfy his desires as he spies on a woman across the street. His frustrations trigger his aggression, while the butcher theme is used as a means of disposing of bodies, but isn't the motive for the killings.

Obvious similarities to 'Psycho' and 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'; also real-life German serial killers Fritz Haarman and Peter Kurten.

The film has enough to recommend it as an above average entry into the slasher genre, although the light hearted approach does tend to outweigh the horror elements too much.

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