Premutos: The Fallen Angel (1997)

Such a frustrating disappointment

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

"Premutos - Der gefallene Engel" or "Premutos: Lord of the Living Dead" is of course a play on words with Prometheus and it is one of the most known works by German filmmaker Olaf Ittenbach. It is Ittenbach third work, so a fairly early career effort and this also shows because the film is in German like most of his very early work. Ittenbach was under 30 when he made this one, what many consider his best film. It runs for 1 hour and 45 minutes approximately and there are certainly moments when this movie drags quite a bit. But there are also moments when this was an entertaining watch. My favorite scene was probably when one character tells another that their boy injured his toe during football and the other character responds with a question if the toe had been ripped off violently. This tells you what to expect here. There is lots of violence in here, some sex too, but the best moments for me were the comedic moments. With Ittenbach, there is gore and splatter here and I don't care about this at all as it's really not my preferred genre at all, but I can somewhat see how people who like the genre much more than I do actually consider this a great creative achievement. I would not go so far, but like I said, this has at least partially to do with my personal bias. All in all, this one had me laughing once or twice and smiling on more occasions, but sadly not enough situations that I would recommend the watch. I give it a thumbs-down.

I just recently started getting into the German side of horror. And I was very lucky that Premutos was the first one I saw. This movie is a non stop bloodbath. This film has everything a gore-hound could want from exploding heads to exploding bodies. And the best part of it is it really doesn't stop. The storyline is pretty good also, I thought. Mixed with great humor and some truly hilarious characters. It is really hard to say which movie is more violent, Brain Dead or Premutos. I personally think Premutos because of the non stop gore through out the movie. What made Brain Dead such a great movie was a good story and the last 25 minutes of the movie. Premutos is similar with a good story but I think the last 30 minutes of Premutos just takes the cake. Over all, one of my all time favorite movies and highly recommend for the ultra gore fan. 10/10 stars

PREMUTOS is a fun, pretty much non-stop blood-bath. There are bound to be numerous comparisons to Peter Jackson's gore epic BRAINDEAD because these 2 films seem to be locked in a constant feud over which film has the higher "red count". Personally, I would put money on BRAINDEAD in that bet, but PREMUTOS is a close runner up. To be quite honest, I don't really understand the concept of PREMUTOS. A lot of the scenes are pretty disjointed, and the dub in the U.S. Shock-O-Rama release is really, really, bad (but completely hilarious and makes the film even better...). This film is full of exploding heads, limbs, torsos, whatever...and some genuinely funny/gross moments. Anyone who considers themselves a true "gorehound" has got to own this film. The FX are pretty good, the story may be a little lame, but this is a really fun movie even with it's faults. Not for the squeamish - Highly recommended 8 1/2 out of 10

The german gore scene is not very big - the most movies go on the account of three directors: Jörg Buttgereit, Andreas Schnaas and Olaf Ittenbach. The later has been the most active in the last years, and it seems that his movies become (slightly) more professional. "Premutos" has a strange plot about a boy, who finds a magic book and summons an satanic angel called Premutos. But in fact it is kind of a funny movie with a lot of people being transformed to Zombies, who attack a small family. The movie contains a lot of gore; the humour does not function every time, and mostly the film is very gore. Scenes which I remind positive:+ The films (anti)hero Mathias gets kicked in the balls when playing soccer and is then examined very gay urologist - to me the most funny scene in the movie. And it leads to the key scene - when he glues some old liquid to his balls, he is turning to the Überzombie. + In another scene the family celebrates the birthday of Walter, Mathias father. One guest is digging a booger out of his nose, forming it to a little ball and then flicks it into the mouth of his woman, who is suppressing him and also talking all the time. + There is one black actor, and I think even in the German version they dubbed him, because he has two voices - one with a very broad bavarian dialect, one in "normal" germanBut these are only the best scenes. I did not like the final, when they take a tank to kill the zombies - it was just tooo unlikely and I didnot think it was very funny. And also very bad are the "historical" scenes of the subplot, which are based in the Time after Jesus Christs death and the battle of Stalingrad. Oh, and I think some of the side actors are even for a gore film to bad.