Cradle of Fear

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Movie
German title Cradle of Fear
Original title Cradle of Fear
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 2001
length 120 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Alex Chandon
script Alex Chandon
production Eddie Kane ,
Ciska Faulkner ,
Nico Rilla
camera Sebastiani Bontempi
cut Alex Chandon
occupation

Cradle of Fear (in German : 'Cradle of Fear', British alternative title: Frightfest ) is a British horror and gore film by Alex Chandon from 2001 . The film is designed as an episode film , with the four episodes connected by a framework plot.

Dani Filth , the front man and singer of the band Cradle of Filth , plays one of the leading roles.

action

Inspector Neilson opens an investigation after investigating a crime scene where two young women named Mel and Nikki were murdered.

  • Mel takes an unknown (The Man) home from a nightclub to a one-night stand. There he brutally attacks Mel and rapes her. The next morning Mel is very bad and goes to see Nikki. Along the way, she has several visions of demons and disfigured people. Panicked, she reached Nikki's apartment. Nikki can calm Mel down and they spend the night together in Nikki's apartment. During the night, Mel notices something is moving in her stomach and wakes Nikki. Suddenly a demon breaks out of Mel's stomach and kills the two women.

Chief Inspector Roper asks Neilson about his strange investigative methods, which his colleagues have noticed. The men also talk about Kemper, a brutal serial killer whom Nielson put down some time ago.

In the Fenham Asylum psychiatric institution , Kemper writes a list of names that he gives to his son, The Man , using a fishing rod.

  • The friends Emma and Sophie break into an old man's apartment to rob him. When they found his money, the man wakes up and demands it back. In the scuffle that follows, he is ultimately killed by Sophie. Since she is of the opinion that she can no longer trust Emma, ​​she kills her too. Sophie then fled to her apartment. There she celebrates the stolen money before she is attacked and murdered by her now undead victims.

In the meantime, Nielson receives four files from murdered people. In all cases there is a connection that the dead were relatives of people who transferred Kemper and brought him to the institution. Meanwhile, a locket with Kemper's fingerprint is found on Sophie. Kemper's cell is then searched.

  • Nick leads a life of wealth with Natalie. However, his luck is not perfect: he lost his leg in an accident some time ago. After Nick's doctor explained to him that the leg of a recently deceased person could be transplanted, Nick took up courage. He visits his former friend Thomas, kills him, steals his left leg and forces his doctor to do a transplant. As a result, Nick and Natalie lead the life they have always wished for. Nick's happiness is only occasionally clouded by visions in which Thomas murders Natalie and reclaims his leg. While driving to a party in the car, the transplanted leg suddenly becomes independent, depresses the gas pedal and blocks the brake. Natalie dies immediately in the accident. Nick tries to cut off his leg and then kills himself with a stab in the neck.

While investigating Nick and Natalie's accident, Inspector Nielson discovers that he was the son of the chairman of the jury who ultimately had Kemper admitted to the mental institution during his trial. A little later the inspector is informed that a list of names with Nielson's name was found during a search of Kemper's cell.

  • Inspector Nielson's son Richard works for an Internet provider. His area of ​​responsibility includes tracking down websites with illegal content. While working, he comes across the snuff website The Sick Room , where you can select torture methods from a menu for a fee, which are then carried out on a victim via livestream. More and more under the spell of this side Richard loses his job and ultimately his apartment is seized. In his madness for more "pleasure", he starts looking for the operators of the website. When he finds this, he ends up as a victim in the torture chamber and The Man lets him kill via the torture menu on the website.

When Inspector Nielson is informed of Richard's death by Chief Inspector Ropert, he knocks him out and drives to Fenham Asylum to kill Kemper. At gunpoint, he forces the prison staff to open the cell for him. He locks himself in the cell with Kemper and shoots him several times without killing him immediately. After a while, the security service managed to break into the cell and prevent Nielson from shooting Kemper. However, one of the security guards turns out to be The Man . He kills all of the other security guards and employees before Nielson shoots him in the head. Then he kills Kemper. Suddenly The Man rises , a demon breaks out of his body and attacks the Inspector.

criticism

"A bloodbath that is not only questionable in terms of craftsmanship, speculatively lining up gene recitations."

- Lexicon of international film

production

After Alex Chandon had directed the music video for the song From the Cradle to Enslave by the band Cradle of Filth , he was able to convince their front man Dani Filth of his planned episode film and win him over as a performer. The necessary budget for the film was only committed after investors learned that Filth would play The Man . The remaining band members at that time got short appearances from Chandon as demons or passers-by.

Louie Brownsell , who played Nick in episode 3 , actually lost his left leg in an accident, which made the special effects of this episode possible.

Cradle of Fear is based heavily on the horror film Asylum ; Chandon also put it on in four episodes with a framework plot in a mental institution.

Frames

In addition to the uncut version of Cradle of Fear , which has not been approved by the FSK, corresponds to the British version and is only sold in Austria , a version cut by around ten minutes was published in Germany. This version was approved by the voluntary self-regulation of the film industry from the age of 18. In March 2018, the uncut version was also given an age rating of 18 and over by the FSK.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cradle of Fear. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ a b c Booklet and specials of the unchecked version by Dragon Entertainment .
  3. ↑ Release certificate for Cradle of Fear . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2004 (PDF; test number: 96 230-a V / DVD).
  4. ↑ Comparison of the cut versions of the FSK 18 version and the British BBFC 18 version of Cradle of Fear at Schnittberichte.com
  5. ↑ Comparison between the unchecked version and the FSK 18 version on OFDb.de
  6. ↑ https://www.schnittberichte.com/ticker.php?ID=4812

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