WATCHcultDevil Hunter
1980 · Spain/France · 80m
Franco at his most indifferent. Ninety minutes of jungle and a monster with bulging eyes.
17 films
German horror films
17 horror films with Germany as a country of origin are catalogued in the ledger, from 1922 to 2024. The busiest decades are 2000s (5), 1970s (4) and 1980s (2). The most common subgenres here are giallo (5), psychological (5), gothic (3) and vampire (3). The best-documented entries are Nosferatu (1922), Wrong Turn (2003) and Bug (2006). Of these, 2 were banned, refused or seized somewhere.
The films
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WATCHcultLisa and the Devil
1973 · Germany/Italy · 95m
Bava given complete freedom, and the film is a dream nobody can escape, including the producer.
WATCHcultBloody Moon
1981 · Germany · 84m
Jess Franco doing a slasher for German money. Contains the stone-saw scene and little else.
WATCHcultTrouble Every Day
2001 · France/Germany · 101m
Claire Denis made a vampire film with no vampires, and it was booed at Cannes.
WATCHcultDaughters of Darkness
1971 · France/Germany · 100m
Elizabeth Báthory in an empty Ostend hotel out of season, and it is the most elegant vampire film ever made.
WATCHknownCemetery Man
1994 · France/Italy · 92m
The last great Italian horror film, and it is a romantic comedy about a man who shoots the dead for a living.
WATCHknownThe Devil's Bath
2024 · Austria/Germany · 121m
Austrian, based on real 18th-century court records, and about a form of despair almost nobody has filmed.
WATCHknownWhat Have You Done to Solange?
1972 · Germany/Italy · 92m
The most upsetting giallo, and the one with an actual moral centre.
WATCHknownCuckoo
2024 · USA/Germany · 102m
A German alpine resort, Hunter Schafer, and Dan Stevens doing an accent. Deeply strange.
WATCHknownThe Cat o' Nine Tails
1971 · France/Germany · 89m
The middle of Argento's Animal Trilogy, and the one he liked least. A blind man and a reporter chase a killer.
WATCHknownThe Ruins
2008 · Australia/USA · 90m
Tourists, a Mayan pyramid and a plant with intent. Nastier than its reputation.
WATCHknownBlood and Black Lace
1964 · France/Germany · 86m
The giallo template, and still the best-looking film in the category.
WATCHknownBug
2006 · Germany/USA · 101m
William Friedkin directing a two-hander in a motel room about shared delusion, and it is not what the trailer sold.
WATCHknownThe Devil's Rejects
2005 · USA/Germany · 109m
Rob Zombie's second film, and it turns the killers from his first into the protagonists, which should not work.
WATCHknownVampyr
1932 · France/Germany · 75m
Dreyer shooting through gauze at a plot that barely exists. Closer to a bad dream than a film.
WATCHcanonWrong Turn
2003 · Canada/Germany · 84m
Competent, well shot, and exactly what it says. Stan Winston did the mutants.
WATCHcanonNosferatu
1922 · Germany · 94m
An illegal Dracula that survived a court order to burn it. Still the best-looking vampire film.
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