Legend of Hell
| Movie | |
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| German title | Legend of Hell |
| Original title | Legend of Hell |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Olaf Ittenbach |
| script | Olaf Ittenbach |
| production | Olaf Ittenbach |
| music | Michael Donner |
| cut |
Carsten Blume Garloff Langenbeck Hanno Ley |
| occupation | |
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Legend of Hell (English literally for "Legend of Hell") is a German horror film by Olaf Ittenbach from 2012 . In addition to the direction, script and production, Ittenbach also realized the special effects for this film.
action
During excavations in Morocco, 38-year-old Selma, an archaeologist, discovers a 5000-year-old portal whose gate is locked from the inside by a strange mechanism. Here is an equally old map, written in a coded secret language that has not been spoken for more than 3000 years. A short time later, Gabriel Moses, an allegedly old art dealer, wants to buy the document from her.
At the handover there is a dispute and Moses shoots Selma and she gets into the Middle Ages. By chance she comes into possession of one of 3 mysterious amulets, but immediately loses it to Moses' henchmen. Then Selma is murdered. From now on this world changes blatantly for them . Strange beings appear and seek their lives. A dark-skinned man, David, appears and takes you past all the monstrous creatures to the two guides Elias and Luise.
He explains to her that she returned to her first life to close the gate to hell. She gave the amulet to Moses in her first life. In her second life, in 2009, she found the portal to hell. David himself lost one to Moses 2600 years ago and Luise also lost one to Moses in the early Middle Ages. Moses became immortal and the map shows that these three amulets together make a key with which one can unlock the gate to hell. Selma now has to find her memory of a life she lived in 2009 and find the map she hid.
A long way now leads you through the abysses of hell to get to that future place where the map is hidden and to destroy it. The closer they get to their goal, they have to find that Moses has long since unlocked the gate to hell on earth.
criticism
- Jason from schnittbericht.com said it looked a lot like an intelligent, innovative story, accompanied by well-humored actors, excellent effects and a lot of feeling for polished dialogues and well-timed action scenes. It would be what a decent indie horror movie should look like.
- Trasher wrote that Ittenbach's works were getting worse and worse. [...] He wonders why the film only appears on DVD, because even the terribly bad "No Reason" even got a Blu-Ray release. [...]
background
Ittenbach financed the film through a fan fundraising campaign in which everyone should donate at least 50 euros. Overall, a six-figure film budget came about in this way , which shows Legend of Hell as a low-budget film .
The DVD launch was on January 31, 2013.
Web links
- Legend of Hell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Legend of Hell on moviepilot .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b film review , accessed on July 5, 2015.
- ↑ Florian Koch: Happy without a head. journalistenakademie.de, accessed on August 13, 2015.
- ↑ DVD start , accessed June 5, 2015.