A young girl is murdered in a town and a small-town police officer is convinced that Gabriel Engel is who to blame. Engel admits that he has only killed boys, but he may know who killed the young girl. Engel manipulates the officer and brings out a darker side to him. Eventually Engel tells the officer that his son was the one who killed the girl, and the officer becomes incredibly angry. By this point Engel has taken poison and starts to die. Just before the officer is about to kill his son, a helicopter and his wife fly overhead to tell him that Engel was dying, and that he in fact did kill that little girl.
I thought this movie was going to be much different. Based on the cover of the book it looked like it was going to be a Saw movie or something really scary. It turned out to be pretty mellow although, very dark. I am noticing that in a lot of these German movies there is a very dark underlying story plot; or the main character has a dark past. Compared to AMerican movies I find this to be interesting; the horror movies that we have in the states are incredibly gruesome and visual while this one was more psychological and less predictable.
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