The night of the living losers
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The night of the living losers |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Matthias Dinter |
| script | Matthias Dinter |
| production | Mischa Hofmann |
| music |
Andreas Grimm , SPN-X |
| camera | Stephan Schuh |
| cut | Cornelie Strecker |
| occupation | |
| |
The Night of the Living Losers is a German teen comedy from 2004 by Matthias Dinter . The title is a parody of the horror film The Night of the Living Dead .
action
Philip, Konrad and Wurst are three typical losers who don't enjoy any respect at school . At the beginning of the film, Philips parents go on vacation and his two friends move in with him for a long time. At school, a couple of teenagers from the Gothic scene give a presentation on voodoo and love spells . Wurst is enthusiastic about the idea of using a love spell to make Uschi compliant, which Philip has been after for a long time, and to get her current friend Wolf out of the way with Voodoo . The amateurish ritual in the nocturnal cemetery, in which a used plaster is used as a blood sacrifice and a headless frozen chicken is sacrificed , fails, and the three friends, annoyed and covered with the ashes of a dead person, head home, where they are in a traffic accident lose their life. You wake up in the morgue and flee.
After initial disbelief, the next day they realize that they really are zombies . When they first successfully stand up to Wolf and then defeat him in a rugby game , they are the new heroes of the school and Wurst announces a victory party in Philips' house. While Konrad and Wurst are excited about their role as zombies, Philip wants to reverse the transformation. He asks Rebecca, one of the Goths , for help. However, when she learns that Philip is throwing a party himself instead of celebrating her birthday with her and prefers to spend the time with Uschi, she is angry with him and refuses to help him, initially without realizing the situation.
Philip and Wurst are now struggling with Konrad, who turns into a bloodthirsty zombie the fastest and who has already eaten the hated sports teacher Stalin . In the evening they chained him up in the basement, where later Wolf hides plenty of chemical drugs and alerts the police. His plan is thwarted when Konrad swallows the pills and pulls himself off the chain, strengthened. After a few more incidents, Philip decides that he doesn't want to live like this and asks Wurst to shoot him.
Rebecca surprises her with the plan and now agrees to help them after she has realized in the meantime that the three boys have become zombies. Now, however, they are twice under time pressure, because on the one hand Philips parents were alerted by a neighbor and canceled their vacation and on the other hand the reconversion has to be completed by noon at noon. Furthermore, they have to catch Konrad again in order to give him the antidote in time and dispose of Wolf , who was bitten by Konrad.
Against all odds, the project succeeds and the antidote is effective. In the meantime, Konrad was hit by Philips' parents and taken to the hospital. After tracking him down there, they try to get him to drink the antidote. Konrad likes his new self, however, freaks out and throws objects around him, including a knife that would have hit Rebecca, but Philip jumps into the trajectory .
When he dies, Konrad inflicts a wound on himself, lets his blood drip into Phillip's mouth, making him undead again. But the murder of his best friend brings him to his senses, and he can now also be cured after Phillip was brought to life for the second time. After everyone is back to normal, Philips parents put him under house arrest for three years , but he gets together with Rebecca.
Interpretation of the zombies
In the film, the three friends are not fundamentally changed by being transformed into zombies; unlike many other zombie films, they don't turn into mindless, dumb beings. They largely retain their mental abilities, but have greater physical strength than normal people and are hungry for human flesh. Outsiders do not recognize the friends as zombies, but instead mistake them for junkies or simply notice their pale skin color or their cool body temperature.
However, zombies in the film (best recognized by Konrad) lose their humanity in the long run and are portrayed as zombies as usual. This takes a different amount of time for each zombie. Once this zombie stage is reached, it is no longer possible to transform back into a human.
criticism
"Halfway solidly staged, but level, unoriginal and tends to be misogynistic teen horror comedy full of trite bum jokes, which only surprises in the friendly depiction of the Gothic scene."
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Night of the Living Losers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .