Saturday, April 11, 2026

 No Reason (2010) Olaf Ittenbach.


A beautifully lean, frequently nude woman Jennifer (Irene Holzfurtner) bloodily endures unconventionally gruesome deprivations for the viewer's morbid edification in Ittenbach's theologically tweaked blood feast No Reason. Fans of spectacularly shrill acting, rubber Cthulhu masks, and graphically executed mutilation are unlikely to feel short-changed by the generous volume of feral screaming, and audaciously brutalizing gore herein. As an admirer of Premutos, I am predisposed to Ittenbach's signature predilection for grandiose ultra-violence, and others that remain manifestly Team Ittenbach should trip out hard on this exhilarating carnage as though having chewed a portal through a ten ton psilocybin mushroom! Appreciating grisly mortification of the flesh is absolutely key to digging this crazed Bavarian's work, and, interestingly, the most compelling visions in No Reason surrealistically plays out like an extended version of the famed demoniacal diorama from 'Witchcraft: La casa 4'. I don't imagine that it was in any way deliberate, but they certainly share thematically skewed, stridently S & M'd similarities. If you crave an extra shot of strong bloody violence with your strong bloody violence, No Reason will definitively deliver the unholiest, and Bloodiest Mary of all Bloody Mary's! As an tangential aside, do vegan's object to Ittenbach's mega-splatter shockers, or do they openly respect the fact than no live peni are ever hurt during his singularly sanguineous film-making process?






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