One of the earliest, more amateur, films by Timo Rose. It tells the story of an alien who crashed in the German forests, where a group of young criminals psychologist took to a psychotherapy session so that they could overcome deviant behavior.
Interesting? Of course, this is not Rose’s best work. With a short 68 minutes, Timo Rose spends too much time disassembling and fingering criminals with each other. Thomas Kersmar, Rose's regular actor, convincingly plays a psychologist who believes too naively in rapid re-education. It is also surprising that no one from the security service went with a psychologist, because we are talking about criminals, not ordinary citizens. However, with an almost amateur film, it is difficult to demand script authenticity.
Now for the good. First, more than good special effects and makeup monsters from Olaf Ittenbach. Its space wolf is not for nothing so named, as it actually looks like a beast, almost a werewolf. In the future, Rose will shoot a more expensive, but artistically approximately identical film about the werewolf “The Beast”.
Secondly, unlike Andreas Schnaas and many other colleagues in the workshop, Rose is not fond of violence, demonstrates it dosed, knows how to create where necessary, the atmosphere, and camera work is much superior to many German underground horror. Rose uses a crane, a static camera, shooting from the hand, travelling, zooming, and does everything quite competently, and sharp editing, rapid shooting and playing with color only increase the foreboding of trouble from the viewer. If the director paid more attention to the horror itself, and not to the fights of bandits, then a very good example of forest horror could turn out. And so this is quite an average work, which has both pros and cons and leaves more mixed feelings than unequivocally positive.
5.5 out of 10