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March 2003 (Germany)
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Ittenback in his element
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Natacza Boon | ... | Rebecca Verlaine (as Natacza S. Boon) | |
| James Matthews | ... | Thomas Munster (as James Matthews-Pyecha) | |
| Daryl Jackson | ... | David Riven | |
| Bela B. Felsenheimer | ... | Gabriel Verlaine | |
| Donald Stewart | ... | Don Creedon | |
| Alexandra Thom-Heinrich | ... | Barbara Creedon | |
| Jean-Luc Julien | ... | Medic | |
| Anika Julien | ... | Young Rebecca | |
| Jeff Motherhead | ... | Roger | |
| Kayla Motherhead | ... | Melanie | |
| Barrett Jones | ... | Officer 1 | |
| Damien Coyle | ... | Officer 2 | |
| Anthony Failla | ... | Officer 3 | |
| Stefan Hummel | ... | Officer 4 | |
| Karin Kain | ... | Waitress |
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The Haunting of Rebecca Verlaine (USA) (DVD title)
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Germany:86 min
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Germany:18 (JK/SPIO) (cut) |
Australia:R |
Australia:R (2008) |
USA:Unrated (DVD rating) |
New Zealand:R18 |
UK:18 |
Austria:18 (uncut version) |
Germany:BPjM Restricted
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Let's face it...most people do not know the name Olaf Ittenbach. And to an extent, for good reason. While I'm a fan of his, I find it hard to watch a lot of his earlier stuff and even his newer stuff can be hard to find. But if you're a gorehound (I would not say that about myself, but I do love a good splatter movie now and again), then a healthy Ittenbach collection is a must. It would be very hard to make an argument that anyone currently working in special effects (let alone directing) has the talent he has for making a head go pop or letting loose an almost hilariously unnecessary amount of blood at one time.
With that said, Ittenbach's movies seem to have a bit of a formula to them. They'll usually assault you virtually in the opening credits, drag along for a little while, give you a pretty intense amount of non-stop gore, fade away for a bit longer, and then hit you with a blood soaked climax. The trick is to make it through the parts that are boring to get to the good stuff. "Rebecca Verlaine" is a prime example of this. Mass murder within the first 5 minutes, then a pretty unimpressive story for 20-30 minutes, a big dose of people getting their faces ripped in two and/or their limbs torn off, more boring crap for awhile, and then a nice finale so Ittenbach can let you know who's boss. That...and his trademark disregard for accents. I swear, if there's 4 people in a scene at least 2 of them will have different accents from the others. And there's no rhyme or reason. Sometimes one brother has a German accent and the other British...Olaf doesn't care.
In the hands of a less capable special effects man, this easily would be nearly unwatchable. But as it stands it's quite watchable, especially for the aforementioned gorehounds. A 7 may be a bit of a stretch, but what can I say...I'm a tad biased towards the man's movies. Now if it could just have been as cool as "House Of Blood"...