No Reason (2010)

Suddenly Jennifer is torn from her comfortable and non-assuming (inconspicuous) life. While planning to move, the young mother and her husband will experience anything but an ordinary day! ... See full summary »

Director:

Olaf Ittenbach

Writer:

Olaf Ittenbach (screenplay)

Stars:

Irene Holzfurtner, Matthias Engel, Alexander Gamnitzer

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Irene Holzfurtner	...	Jennifer Göttler
Matthias Engel	...	Sebastian Göttler
Alexander Gamnitzer	...	Joe
Andreas Pape	...	Willy
Annika Strauss	...	Irina
Ralph Willmann	...	Postman
Markus Hettich	...	Creature
Timothy Balme	...	Pathologist #1
Thomas Reitmair	...	Drug dealer
Vlasto Peyitch	...	Ghost leader
Hildegard Kocian	...	Elisabeth
Dominik Bühler	...	Nico
Josephin-Marie Kriehmigen	...	Jennifer as child
Felix Decker	...	Harald
Karen Breece	...	Maria

Storyline

Suddenly Jennifer is torn from her comfortable and non-assuming (inconspicuous) life. While planning to move, the young mother and her husband will experience anything but an ordinary day! It all begins with a strange visit from her soon to be ex neighbor, the postman who mentions an urgent need. Later, when coming home from grocery shopping, Jennifer discovers an elderly neighbor, who is her son Niko s babysitter has disappeared. She also receives a terrifying and disturbing letter. The fateful delivery contains a macabre death poem by yet another occupant of her building, plus some compromising sex photos of her husband and the missing babysitter! To get over the initial shock of this disturbing news, she decides to take a bath, and promptly falls asleep in the bathtub. When she awakes, she finds herself on the floor of her apartment covered in blood and body parts! Centre to this surreal and horrific scene is a mysterious masked man who promises to lead Jennifer on the right path ...

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Plot Keywords:

gore | violence | pathology | blood | drugs | 

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Genres:

Action | Horror

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Details

Country:

Germany

Language:

German

Release Date:

20 March 2010 (Germany)

Company Credits

Production Co:

IMAS Filmproduktion

Technical Specs

Runtime:

74 min 54 min (heavily cut)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

User Reviews

Green's my favorite color.

Ittenbach's latest diabolical mind-bender of the colorful kind may bemuse you as well as shrink your dink.

If I tried explaining the story to you, or even – I'm losing patience just thinking about it – discussing what it all means, I'd probably come across dumber than I sound right now. So, with that said, let's give it a shot! Ya got a girl who's visited by a tentacle bearded demon guy that is trying to teach her the truth of her ways by bringing her to different layers of some type of afterlife realm…or some sh!t like that. Hey ya know, that wasn't that bad of a summary. What's most important is knowing if Olaf's flick was able to deliver while his cast of characters did their thing. The answer is sure.

Pretty early on you get the picture that the story is a take it or leave it type of thing. I personally thought it stunk, but if you dig heady, weirdo German type story-telling then I guess you'll dig it…at least a little bit. But again, we know better. Ittenbach fans know better than to expect an average tale. We hope for one, but we don't expect. What we do expect is blood. So we sit there with our bibs on, waiting for that first splash.

It doesn't take long.

What No Reason does have going for it is that it's possibly one of the goriest films of the past couple years. Besides some lighting techniques that may have cut corners around how realistic the gore should look, the film still delivers on the blood front. There's a sequence, a hellish sequence you would say, where we stroll along through a torture dungeon of sorts that is basically just non-stop atrocities. Some creative stuff is going down too. Graphic is an understatement, as we peep peeing girls, some skin tearing, a bound to be classic penile mutilation, and of course, lots of blood spurting. It's the highlight of the film.

There are other scenes of OTT violence, and our leading lady is one hundred percent naked I'd say 80% of the movie - nice bum, small boobs, camel toe in your face. So as you see, there is enough here to keep your eyes glued to the screen. At a little over 70 minutes the film does feel longer because of Olaf's talky tale of colors, but I'd say it's definitely worth any gorehounds time as well as a must see for fans of Olaf, and, without a doubt, a definite for feminist gorehounds.

An average output for Olaf by my standards, but still, gore is gore, ass is ass, and how much more can you ask for when Ittenbach is in the big boy chair?