Hell
Screenplay by Tim Fehlbaum, Oliver Kahl, & Thomas Wöbke
Directed by Tim Fehlbaum
Germany/Switzerland, 2011
Dirty, grimy, and dusty, that’s how best to describe Hell. The heat can be felt, the dryness of the film comes off of the screen like a hot summer day in Chicago. Tim Fehlbaum takes a very tactile approach with his film, daring the audience to feel what his characters are feeling. The horror of Hell is that when the characters are hot the viewer feels hot. When the characters are struggling with thirst the audience feels like it needs a drink of water. Herr Fehlbaum asks a lot out of the characters he, and his screenplay compatriots, have created for Hell. He asks just as much, if not more, out of his films audience.
The first ten or so minutes of Hell are the most important minutes in the film. They establish this world,...
Screenplay by Tim Fehlbaum, Oliver Kahl, & Thomas Wöbke
Directed by Tim Fehlbaum
Germany/Switzerland, 2011
Dirty, grimy, and dusty, that’s how best to describe Hell. The heat can be felt, the dryness of the film comes off of the screen like a hot summer day in Chicago. Tim Fehlbaum takes a very tactile approach with his film, daring the audience to feel what his characters are feeling. The horror of Hell is that when the characters are hot the viewer feels hot. When the characters are struggling with thirst the audience feels like it needs a drink of water. Herr Fehlbaum asks a lot out of the characters he, and his screenplay compatriots, have created for Hell. He asks just as much, if not more, out of his films audience.
The first ten or so minutes of Hell are the most important minutes in the film. They establish this world,...
- 8/27/2014
- by Bill Thompson
- SoundOnSight
Directed by: Tim Fehlbaum
Written by: Tim Fehlbaum, Oliver Kahl, Thomas Wobke
Featuring: Hannah Herzsprung, Stipe Erceg, Angela Winkler, Lisa Vicari, Michael Kranz, Lars Eidinger
For quite a while now, environmental horror has been the province of mostly North American productions. For some reason, the apocalypse just doesn't seem quite as popular in Europe. But that changes with Tim Fehlbaum's feature debut, the 2011 post-global warming potboiler, the rather amusingly titled Hell (in some parts of the world it's been released as the even more generic Apocalypse). Produced by Roland Emmerich (of course it is), Hell is a good deal less stupid than Emmerich's own 2012 or The Day After Tomorrow, but it never quite gets out of second gear.
A hurried text piece sets up the story: In 2016, a series of massive solar flares have raised the earth's temperature by 10 degrees Celsius and made the sun burn brighter than ever.
Written by: Tim Fehlbaum, Oliver Kahl, Thomas Wobke
Featuring: Hannah Herzsprung, Stipe Erceg, Angela Winkler, Lisa Vicari, Michael Kranz, Lars Eidinger
For quite a while now, environmental horror has been the province of mostly North American productions. For some reason, the apocalypse just doesn't seem quite as popular in Europe. But that changes with Tim Fehlbaum's feature debut, the 2011 post-global warming potboiler, the rather amusingly titled Hell (in some parts of the world it's been released as the even more generic Apocalypse). Produced by Roland Emmerich (of course it is), Hell is a good deal less stupid than Emmerich's own 2012 or The Day After Tomorrow, but it never quite gets out of second gear.
A hurried text piece sets up the story: In 2016, a series of massive solar flares have raised the earth's temperature by 10 degrees Celsius and made the sun burn brighter than ever.
- 2/18/2013
- by Dan Coyle aka Deadpool
- Planet Fury
Hell's executive producer Roland Emmerich may be behind such big budget post apocalyptic blockbusters as 2012 and The Day After Tomorrow, but this film tells a far more personal story and doesn't require millions of dollars of visual effects to do so. Instead, director and writer Tim Fehlbaum (he shares a screenplay credit with Oliver Kahl and Thomas Wöb) grounds the story firmly in reality, focusing only on two sisters, the dubious man they travel with and another male straggler they pick up along the way. The specifics of how and why the temperature of the world has risen and left it a barren wasteland are irrelevant and there's no tedious subplot here about scientists trying to figure out how to miraculously stop the disaster (although a newspaper which mentions solar flares may tell us all we really need to know). As the group head towards the mountains in search...
- 7/2/2012
- ComicBookMovie.com
Director: Tim Fehlbaum.
Writers: Tim Fehlbaum and Oliver Kahl.
Cast: Hannah Herzsprung, Lars Eidinger, and Lisa Vicari.
Hell is an amazing film. Shot in Germany and France, this is a German language film that takes place in a future world wracked by solar flares. The temperature has risen ten degrees and so has the tension between characters and societal groups. In fact, certain families have turned against humanity entirely. And really Hell is a film about the positive qualities of humanity vs anti-humanity in a devastating and dangerous environment.
The humanity and the optimism comes from characters Marie and Tom. Marie is the sister to Lisa and she will do anything for her. Her loyalty is a positive quality of humanity and this characteristic is necessary when facing people who supplement their diets in unusual ways. Tom is a survivalist. He fights when it is necessary and he fights for what is right.
Writers: Tim Fehlbaum and Oliver Kahl.
Cast: Hannah Herzsprung, Lars Eidinger, and Lisa Vicari.
Hell is an amazing film. Shot in Germany and France, this is a German language film that takes place in a future world wracked by solar flares. The temperature has risen ten degrees and so has the tension between characters and societal groups. In fact, certain families have turned against humanity entirely. And really Hell is a film about the positive qualities of humanity vs anti-humanity in a devastating and dangerous environment.
The humanity and the optimism comes from characters Marie and Tom. Marie is the sister to Lisa and she will do anything for her. Her loyalty is a positive quality of humanity and this characteristic is necessary when facing people who supplement their diets in unusual ways. Tom is a survivalist. He fights when it is necessary and he fights for what is right.
- 12/9/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
The first trailer for Roland Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow) and Tim Fehlbaum's Hell aka 2016: The End of Night (Quiet) is now showing. Emmerich might be best known for destroying the world in such films as Independence Day, Eight Legged Freaks, 2012 and many others. This time, Emmerich burns the Earth to a crisp through solar flares and a change in the sun. To show in Germany this September, fans of science fiction can enjoy the trailer for Hell below, as a family struggles to find water in a desolate landscape.
The synopsis for Hell is here:
"It was once the source of life, light and warmth. But now the sun has turned the entire world into a baked and barren wasteland. Forests are scorched, animal carcasses line the roads and even the nights are dazzlingly bright.
Maria, her little sister Leonie and Phillip are heading for the mountains...
The synopsis for Hell is here:
"It was once the source of life, light and warmth. But now the sun has turned the entire world into a baked and barren wasteland. Forests are scorched, animal carcasses line the roads and even the nights are dazzlingly bright.
Maria, her little sister Leonie and Phillip are heading for the mountains...
- 7/5/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
We've been following this little known German post-apocalyptic film produced by Roland Emmerich for quite a while now. Originally called 2016: The End of Night, the film has gone through some transformations since production began and is now called, simply, Hell.
Looking at this first clip from the film it's clear why the film's title was changed. This is not your typical, glossy Emmerich production. Rather it's a washed out, dusty pallet that eschews monsters for good-old-fashioned man versus man terror. This is truly a hell on earth.
Synopsis:
It was once the source of life, light and warmth. But now the sun has turned the entire world into a baked and barren wasteland. Forests are scorched. Animal carcasses line the roads. Even the nights are dazzlingly bright.
Maria, her little sister Leonie and Phillip are heading for the mountains in a car with tinted glass. Rumor has it water can still be found there.
Looking at this first clip from the film it's clear why the film's title was changed. This is not your typical, glossy Emmerich production. Rather it's a washed out, dusty pallet that eschews monsters for good-old-fashioned man versus man terror. This is truly a hell on earth.
Synopsis:
It was once the source of life, light and warmth. But now the sun has turned the entire world into a baked and barren wasteland. Forests are scorched. Animal carcasses line the roads. Even the nights are dazzlingly bright.
Maria, her little sister Leonie and Phillip are heading for the mountains in a car with tinted glass. Rumor has it water can still be found there.
- 7/4/2011
- QuietEarth.us
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