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Black Past

Black Past (1989)

January. 01,1989
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5.1
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Tommy finds a cursed mirror and a diary in an attic in the new house they moved in. The mirror starts to give Tommy horrible and gruesome visions as his crush keeps rising from the dead.

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Lovesusti
1989/01/01

The Worst Film Ever

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Executscan
1989/01/02

Expected more

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Anoushka Slater
1989/01/03

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

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Kimball
1989/01/04

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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S_Craig_Zahler
1989/01/05

This is low budget shot on video German splatter, starring the writer/director/special effect guy, Olaf Ittenbach.No small amount of this movie originated in The Evil Dead, but rather than look at The Black Past like a typical narrative movie, I'd suggest approaching it like a Halloween haunted house with gory set pieces and an intensely nasty depiction of hell.Unlike most of his later movies, which push toward bigger ideas (and don't work as well), this is a simple piece that builds to intensely gory happenings. It is a bit too slow and the performances aren't there at all, but when things get surreal and vicious, the experience is a vibrant and charged gore cornucopia that will leave a lasting impression. You'll need to forgive a lot in this film, but like the very different movies of Werner Herzog and John Waters and H.G. Lewis and Harmony Korine, Black Past is an experience and a spectacle more than it is a traditional narrative film and those looking for a dungeon of gore, where "Hell = Creative Torture" may forgive Ittenbach's shortcomings as a traditional filmmaker...something that is less forgivable when he attempts to make traditional films (albeit ones crammed with gore).((I found Premutos a bit dull after a while, and House of Blood and the Haunting of Rebecca Verlaine, sporadically engaging.))Ittenbach's other recommendable movie, The Burning Moon, is similarly strong-- and expands upon the man's visual conception of "Hell = Creative Torture," though it is also a bit more bloated. And Brian Paulin's Fetus and Bone Sickness explore this dungeon and are better in most regards.

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trashgang
1989/01/06

The eighties was the time of the slashers and the goreflicks. Germany became know due to Buttgereit and Ittenbach. Buttgereit made some weird ones , Ittenbach the gory ones. This is his first one and appearing himself as the main character. The home made one starts of extreme slow and nothing happens, although the first minute was promising, a child killed by an axe. But when his girlfriend becomes possessed the movie really starts. Olaf had some weird dreams were his girlfriend reappears from the dead, again and again, just like Raimi's Evil Dead. That's where the movie becoming a real gore classic, amounts of blood is flowing, bodies are mutilated, a real mess. So that's why Olaf became a cultdirector, he made a lot of other classics like Burning Moon and House of Blood and of course the real gory one Premutos. A keeper

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buchass
1989/01/07

For all ultra-gore fans, "Black Past" its a "Z" home-made flick, the screenplay is ridiculous, but who cares, what we care, is the ultra gore and sadistic scenes.Its Olaf Ittenbach first flick, and i think thats is pretty good, for an ultra amateur movie. The special effects are superb, the acting is terrible, the footage too, but the all point of this flick is too shock with brutal graphic violence.If you like "Black Past", i recommend: "Burning Moon" and "Premutos" (two flicks from Olaf Ittenbach), "Evil Dead"(Sam Raimi), "VS3:Infantry of Doom"(Andrea Schnnas)

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Dan
1989/01/08

Ittenbach's Black Past is can easily be categorized as one of the goriest films that has ever filmed. It contains so much gore that you cannot help being delighted! There are zombies, serial killers and some other kind of creepy monsters.The story is quite shitty, but who really cares while there is much GORE! Basically, it's indeed an Evil Dead rip-off, but it's ten time gorier than the Evil Dead. Not only isn't the acting bad, the dialogues are bad too, but then again, who cares? GORE is the name of the game and if you are in favour of it, don't think twice!!! Black Past has been made just for you! 10/10 (it could be 0/10 if it weren't so gory heh)

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