"Flesh & Pain FM" - review on the maniacal thriller "On the air" Doc Rock, DJ of the local radio station “Night Owl”, do not mind once again someone “pump” live. A serial killer nicknamed “The Terrifying Tessack”, provoked by a “sharp on the tongue” leading, offers him to play a game in which the stake is human life.
A fascinating “torture” thriller produced by Germany from the creative tandem of directors: Marco Riedl and Karsten Vot. Marco Riedl, in addition to his main staging duties, co-wrote the script with Mark Steinike (including the short story) and performed camera functions. The installation was done by the same Steinike. A few years ago, Ridl and already shot a nineteen-minute short film “On the air” with the same artists and main actors, after which, attracting sponsors from the outside, implemented the project in a full-length film, which for some time lay on the shelf from 2012 to 2015.
The film is a mixture of a number of similar in style works: “The lot”, “The nefarious”, “Saw” and “Neighbor”. In the latter case, Melton and Dunstan quite accurately used a number of points in their kinamatographic sketch, very correctly quoting them. The colorful, expressive character of the calculating villain performed by Charles Rettinghouse with the appearance of the Ukrainian political scientist Vyacheslav Kovtun, with undisguised coolness and pleasure, demonstrates the whole range of vivacious inclinations, clearly planning everything “from and to”, again and again “throwing” ingenious puzzles to the radio host Doc (Marcus Nafken) and the police officer Brix (Ronald Nitschke). Meanwhile, "Frightening Cakesack" is not averse to pull on the head a bag with slits for the eyes and a belt instead of the mouth, which gives rise to claim the elements of the slasher. Klaus-Dieter Klebsch (journalist Oscar Schreiber) looks a bit like actor Viktor Bychkov (Jagger Kuzmich is a character in the classic Russian comedy about the adventures of amusing alcoholics “Features of the National Hunt”). Although there is enough blood and severed limbs, the physical massacres of the victims are not visualized in detail, except for the fact that in one case the surreiter blade of a knife toolkit opens the stomach and cuts the throat. From the nudity, I will note the appetizing buttocks in the shower of the beautiful, sexy Yasmin Lord (Tara), which I literally coveted during the air. There will also be an unpleasant scene of a naked, completely decapitated corpse of a woman. In general, the girls here are very good. Usually German women are shown to us thin, long-nosed and unsympathetic, but not in this picture. The plot, which takes place exclusively in the dark, is addictive. Despite the fact that in the episode with rape, you can understand what to do, because Ridl’s creation does not lose at all, since the ending came out on the look and someone, for sure, can shock. I liked the final titles, stylized as anatomical atlas of body structure.
It’s an interesting thriller to brighten up the evening.
7 out of 10