Maximum Violence aka Popular (2011) – Marcel Waltz.

A Prosecco-happy clutch of glamorous, yet ultimately vapid Fräulein's bloodily fall victim to the supernatural stalk and slashings of a vengeful, back-combed banshee in glitzy German indie slasher Maximum Violence. The moody raven-haired head of their school Frau Beck (Manouch)is a gas, doing a good line in acid hag, but she blew her glowering head off before I could get truly fixated on her delectably cruel Kinskiness! The victim/revenging ghost certainly has grounds for being proper ticked off, grossly tormented by malign matriarch Frau Beck, abused by staff, blithely mistreated by friends, her lamentable match stick girl life is brought to a comparably miserable end, inspiring her collegiate killing spree. High points do not include the routine text, but the lissom lassies are lovely, the Rhineland exteriors are picturesque,and composer Michael Donner ably provides some driving Synth Wave. My singular fetish for indie Krautshock was mostly satisfied, but Waltz's Maximum Violence might be more factually titled as 'Mild, to moderate bloodletting', since there didn't appear to be any use of graphic prosthetic FX, just a squirty, tricked-out Giallo razor, or, the version I viewed had been cut? Obscure slasher completists might care to give this a shot, but due to a dearth of T&A, and curiously minimal chunkblowing, appeal to gorehounds may be quite limited. I have the entirely subjective impression that the film's subtext may concern the various inequities borne of those overtly beguiled by capitalism, and if that is the case, I'll give it a wee bump!