1980s psycho-thriller ANGST - Screening at London's Austrian Film Festival

Influential 1980s psycho-thriller ANGST (Dir: Gerald Kargl, 1983) will be screening as part of the upcoming 3rd edition of watchAUT Austrian Film Festival, which will take place at Cine Lumiere and the ICA Cinemas in London 13-16 March.

Banned in many European countries for its depictions of violence, and based on real-life Austrian mass murderer Werner Kniesek, ANGST follows a troubled man who is released from prison after serving ten years for murdering an elderly woman. 

Feeling the compulsion to kill again, he chances upon a secluded rural home where a young woman lives with her sick mother and disabled brother, and he immediately begins enacting his sadistic fantasies on them. 

Shocking and significant in equal measures, notable filmmakers including Gaspar Noé cite Angst as an influence, and The Brutalist writer/director Brady Corbet recently selected ANGST in his list of “5 films for challenging times”.

Other films in the programme include the London Premiere of savage pitch-black satire VENI VIDI VICI and the UK Premiere of tense mystery MOON. 

ANGST will screen as part of watchAUT Austrian Film Festival at the  ICA, Saturday 15 March, 8:30pm: https://www.ica.art/films/angst

For info on other films at the festival, visit https://www.ica.art/films/watchaut