Garden of Love - The beginning of a nightmare
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| Original title | Garden of Love |
| Country of production | Germany , Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 82 (cut) minutes, 86 (uncut) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK indexed / 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Olaf Ittenbach |
| script | Olaf Ittenbach, Thomas Reitmair |
| production | Olaf Ittenbach, Yazid Benfeghoul , Ricky Goldberg , Leo Helfer |
| music |
Albert G. Striedl , Thomas Reitmair |
| camera | Holger Fleig |
| cut | Eckart Zerzawy |
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Garden of Love (alternatively Garden of Love - The Bloody Nightmare Begins or Born Undead ) is a German horror film / splatter film by Olaf Ittenbach from 2003.
action
A hippie community is brutally executed in their home. Only the little girl Rebecca survived the attack, seriously injured, and fell into a deep coma . Two years later, she wakes up and suffers from amnesia - she can no longer remember the crime. Her uncle and aunt adopt her, making her believe that her parents were killed in a car accident. Years later she is suddenly tormented by visions and the song "Garden of Love" comes to her mind. Little by little the terrible past reappears.
Finally, she searches the Internet for the song and comes across her father's name. This landed a hit with the title, and she also learns about the attack on his hippie commune. Her boyfriend does not want to believe that her recurring visions are related to her father's spirit. She confronts her adoptive parents, and through the police officer who was previously in charge of the case, she finds out that no evidence whatsoever was found at the time, such as her own fingerprints on the guns. Her father also left a rich legacy that her boyfriend had hitherto concealed. After all, she wants to find the answers to what happened on her father's former farm herself, accompanied by a police officer.
After getting there, Rebecca has visions again in which her father appears. He wants her to bring everyone responsible for the massacre to the farm so that he and the rest can finally find peace. The police officer who is looking around is butchered unnoticed. When Rebecca wakes up from the vision and realizes this, she escapes outside and calls for help via the police car. The officers arrive a little later and storm the house. It is only now that Rebecca realizes that she has made a big mistake by calling the cops. Because they too all become victims of the ghost commune.
She desperately seeks out her boyfriend, who again refuses to believe her and, unnoticed, gives her a sleeping pill. When she wakes up again, she is hanging on a rope and her boyfriend finally shows the real me. Because of the rich heritage, the commune was wiped out at the time , and Rebecca had to be left alive to get at it. Now that she has got the most out of her, the “friend” wants to finish her off completely, but she can defend herself and free herself. After her attack on the former friend, she drives to the house of the former police officer. Her adoptive parents are also mysteriously sitting there.
It turns out that her boyfriend, the police officer, and her adoptive parents were all in cahoots and just wanted to get hold of the inheritance. She puts everything on one card and kidnaps the police officer's little daughter to the farmhouse in front of the others, where everyone meets again for the showdown. Shortly before Rebecca is about to be struck down by the murder policeman, the ghost of her father and the rest of the ghost commune intervene and take revenge on their tormentors. Instead, the shot hits the policeman's daughter, who is now suffering from amnesia. Rebecca takes care of the girl and adopts her. Then one day the television suddenly comes on and the murder cop's ghost greets his daughter with a laugh.
Cut versions
The uncut film is 85:40 minutes long and has not been reviewed or indexed. The SPIO / JK version, which was censored to 83:38 minutes, was also indexed. There is also a cut FSK 18 version with 82 minutes, which is freely available.
Reviews
"B-horror film from a relevant low-budget workshop that sheds rivers of blood, but hardly produces anything more than involuntary comedy."
"Solid, timbered B-horror film full of bonds customary in the industry."
Awards
Oscar Academy Awards 2004
Listed in the Best Foreign Language Film category . There was no nomination.
Trivia
Actor Bela B. Felsenheimer is the singer of the German punk rock group Die Ärzte .
continuation
The sequel Garden of Love II: The Second Family was announced by Olaf Ittenbach in 2016 and published in October 2017.
Web links
- Garden of Love - The beginning of a nightmare in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions unchecked and SPIO / JK checked version , no youth release - Unchecked by Garden of Love - the beginning of a nightmare at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Data on the film at schnittberichte.com. Retrieved April 8, 2018.
- ↑ Data on the film on IMDb.com (English). Retrieved April 8, 2018.
- ↑ Versions in comparison on schnittberichte.com. Retrieved April 8, 2018
- ↑ Garden of Love - The Beginning of a Nightmare. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ criticism for film kino.de. Retrieved April 8, 2018
- ↑ List of German films submitted for the Oscar Academy Awards on german-films.de. Retrieved April 8, 2018.
- ↑ Information on the second part at extremehorrorcinema.com (English). Retrieved April 8, 2018.
- ↑ Data on IMDb.com for the second part (English). Retrieved April 8, 2018.
- ↑ Data on schnittberichte.com for the second part . Retrieved April 8, 2018.