One of the best films of Timo Rose, shot for a funny 1500 euros and looks like a real masterpiece for such money. It is worth noting some of its similarity with "Uncensored: Cinema", as we are waiting for an abundance of monsters, a secluded scene, but this is not a thrash, but a full-fledged horror, resembling a nightmare in reality, where logic is sacrificed to dream poetry. Contrary to many other German horror films, Timo Rose tried to make his amateur film so that the story was cinematic, so that even those who do not know German (like me) still felt the atmosphere of an endless nightmare that hung over a small village where hellish forces awakened and hell truly reigned on earth. Sometimes you even remember Lucio Fulci’s poetic nightmares, such as “City of the Living Dead”, “House on the Edge of the Cemetery”, “The Seventh Gate of Hell”, where the traditional narrative was replaced by a series of surreal images. After all, scary movies should not be logical, because what can be explained will not be frightening. And Rosa still managed to create excellent special effects and immerse the viewer in the main action at the beginning, which can not be said about the “Space Wolf”, where annoying disassemblies of criminals among themselves closed the plot with the monster from the viewer. Immediately, one of the most remarkable creatures of darkness is to include a skeletal demon, a scene with which in a dark basement turned out to be truly atmospheric.
It’s a pity that most viewers will never see this movie, like other high-quality German horror films, as many of them have not been translated into Russian. So we should be indignant, first of all, to the taste of translators, who convey to us all sorts of slag. For example, Marcel Waltz’s only worthy film, Avangard, has gone untranslated, while his pesky torture films have almost all been translated. The same applies to the worthy works of Andreas Schnaas Demonium, Don’t Wake the Dead, Uncensored: Cinema, as well as Rosa’s films The Legend of the Moon Mountain and Game End. By the way, such a poetic title of the film is certainly justified in the best scenes, where there is a feeling of terrible dreams, a dream from which one cannot wake up, and the director sometimes achieves the creation of a hypnotic atmosphere, where the fear of residents before unknown forces and their desperate resistance border on the awareness of the point of no return. The end of the world has come for each of them, for their life will never be the same again. He who has seen hell can no longer live in illusions. Therefore, the absence of a happy ending is perceived almost as a happy ending, because it is easier to dissolve in the glow of the Moon Mountain than to live in the memory of the open underworld.
7 out of 10