Thursday, May 7, 2026

 Das Deutsche Kettensegen Massaker (1990) – Christoph Schlingensief.


Following the reunification, former members of the GDR, at least 4% of those crossing the decommissioned border are never seen again, Schlingensief's sardonic splatter film grimly suggests they were captured by crazed cannibals, and rendered into sausage meat! I love meat. I love meat in films. Meat is life. Life is meat. Fliesh ist Fliesh! Meat me in St. Louis is a classic, but Das Deutsche Kettensegen Massaker is meatier! The very wurst thing about Das Deutsche Kettensegen Massaker is that it's just not long enough! Oo-er missus!!! If you took all the high-voltaged eccentricity in DDKM, distilled it into an alcoholic beverage, it would headily provide for a monstrously intoxicating brew! I support inventive approaches to the production of artisan meats, yet the sinister meatology appropriated by those deranged denizens of this wonderfully strange, hyperbolically performed film may prove a little too idiosyncratic!


I know I'm not entirely alone in this, but I'm especially fond of genre films that demonstratively increase the viewer's appetite for meat, acting as a meat-accelerator, if you like, and the generously proportioned meat accelerative properties in DDKM are considerably more potent than most! The wildly off-grid, exhilaratingly singular black comedy stylings of DDKM proved wholly irresistible! In celebration, I'm now going to prepare a stiff bloody Mary, wholly organic, ingredients sourced directly from only the finest heavenly ingredients. If, like me, you sincerely believe DDKM to be funnier than Meat The Feebles, we should absolutely get together and enjoy a heroic dosing of all the finest living meats known to humanity!










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