Antibodies (Antikörper)

I know what you’re thinking after looking at the movie poster. But no, it is not the newest Pixar movie. It is pretty much just as fucked up as you would expect from a nude German man with blood smeared on his face.

Yes, it’s a German movie, and yes I am aware that the German language is akin to listening to a live butchering of a hog, but Netflix was just sure as shit that I would love this. It put forth a highly-comical 4.9 estimate for me. So…ok then.

You know I don’t like to give out spoilers, so here’s the abridged version that you can probably already build on your own from just that poster:

THE NAKED DUDE WITH THE BLOOD ON HIM IS A SERIAL KILLER WHO MURDERS, RAPES AND TORTURES LITTLE BOYS.

Now that we’re all on the same page, let us continue.

The first hour of the film plays out pretty much like Silence of the Lambs. Crazy asshole playing mind games with the altruistic small-town-type officer (this time it’s a dude and he doesn’t get spooge flung at him). The cops know about a number of murders but they need the sick bastard’s help to find out about more. The killer even mentions Hannibal Lecter in one scene. Kinda funny.

Anyways, it is your pretty standard psychological thriller about half-way through. But then the shit begins to repeatedly hit the fan one crushing blow after another. Giving nothing away, just make sure you watch the last 45 minutes or so. It might seem like it took a while getting there, but once it’s there, well…it stays there.

As you might expect from a German movie (despite its subtle cover art) there is a lot that is severely fucked up in this thing. To say that it deserves its R rating is like saying “I have a bit of a weight problem.”

I guess you could consider this a spoiler alert of sorts, but it doesn’t give away any real plot points. But this is a list of some of the spectacularly gruesome things found within:

-The killer guy speaks in great detail about the rape of a young boy. Not only that, he jacks off while telling it (hiding it under his bedsheets while he does it).

-A guy straight up murders a dog with a hunting rifle.

-The main character has sex with his wife so angrily that he causes her virginia to bleed. How do I know? Because there was a hideous cut scene of it happening in the bathroom.

So ya know, maybe a hard PG-13?

It’s a good one, though. I was kind of turned off by the first part because it was all graphic violence, dog killing and child rape-talk. But like I said, when it gets going it really gets going.

Top notch film if you can get past the ghastly subject matter. But let’s be real, people like that exist. Refusing to write movies about them doesn’t make them disappear.

Give it a watch.

I can’t find an embeddable trailer that isn’t in German. So here is a link to one with subtitles.

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/166860/1158988