Too much of everything

best movie i've ever seen.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Premutos is Olaf Ittenbach's infamous gorefest that is often compared to Brain Dead because of its final splatter orgy. We follow the story of a German small town boy Matthias who gets hold of the book of the fallen angel Premutos. The book has been passed protected by witches and black magicians over the centuries, with lots of flashbacks set in the Second World War or the Dark Ages. Matthias accidentally unleashes hell on earth and a horde of zombies comes to haunt his family, which defends itself in any means possible, including swords, axes, chainsaws and lots and lots of guns.Premutos was a lot of of fun, but its gore factor does not quite compare to Brain Dead. The make-up effects Brain Dead are a bit more ingenious and over-the-top. Here, there's just a lot of shooting. Ittenbach definitely nails the head explosion effect, which looks really really good—but unfortunately that's how almost every zombie dies. Compared to Brain Dead, this feels a bit more like a young boy's shoot-em up fantasy.I loved the "small town" German feel that pervades the movie. There's a lot of intentionally (and unintentionally) funny acting here, as well as some highly stereotypical characters. What I really like about this film, and many other low- budget movies like it, is that you get the feeling that the crew had fun producing the movie.Premutos is definitely worth a watch for fans of low-budget gore and splatter.

"Premutos - Der gefallene Engel" or "Premutos: Lord of the Living Dead" is of course a play on words with Prometheus and it is one of the most known works by German filmmaker Olaf Ittenbach. It is Ittenbach third work, so a fairly early career effort and this also shows because the film is in German like most of his very early work. Ittenbach was under 30 when he made this one, what many consider his best film. It runs for 1 hour and 45 minutes approximately and there are certainly moments when this movie drags quite a bit. But there are also moments when this was an entertaining watch. My favorite scene was probably when one character tells another that their boy injured his toe during football and the other character responds with a question if the toe had been ripped off violently. This tells you what to expect here. There is lots of violence in here, some sex too, but the best moments for me were the comedic moments. With Ittenbach, there is gore and splatter here and I don't care about this at all as it's really not my preferred genre at all, but I can somewhat see how people who like the genre much more than I do actually consider this a great creative achievement. I would not go so far, but like I said, this has at least partially to do with my personal bias. All in all, this one had me laughing once or twice and smiling on more occasions, but sadly not enough situations that I would recommend the watch. I give it a thumbs-down.

I am tired of those comments saying "this can't be gorier than Braindead, because there are cheap effects !" and everyone tagging Braindead as the "Goriest film ever made", in my opinion the "Goriest film ever made" must have gore from the beginning to the end and seriously do you care about "cheap special effects" ? if you want a movie with better Special effects, go watch a lame Hollywood flick, dumb ass !The plot is creative and interesting: Mathias has some hallucinations about Premutos, the first fallen angel. Mathia's fathers, Walter (the coolest character of the whole movie !), discovers a case containing some books and potions. During Walter's birthday party, Mathias become Premutos and his army of zombies is rising !Olaff Ittenbach did an awesome job, i don't care about your stupid opinion, the gore was awesome, the flashback scenes where well made, the character "Walter" was awesome, bottom line: THIS IS GORIER AND BETTER THAN BRAINDEAD !

It seem like a couple of cinema's students who have make this film but the gore scenes are just the best!!! I saw this movie with the English lining, whose are so ridiculously bad(the mouth doesn't fit, lack of acting, compute sounds) but I laugh all the way from the beginning to the end. This German film explode of blood and, sometimes, abuse of it. If you want to see a good movie, I don't recommend this movie. If you want to see a none serious movie to laugh with a couple of friend : go for it! That's none expensive entertainment. The scenario is very confused and the montage make it very difficult to follow the action by time but, in fact, there's not a lot to understand. In the line of Bad taste and The Toxic Avenger.