Olaf Ittenbach

Premutos is the first of the fallen Angels, even before Lucifer. His Goal is to rule the world, the living and the dead. His son should pave the way for him and appears arbitrary throughout human history and is then recognized as some kind of monster. In the present time, a young man living in Germany begins to suffer from visionary flashbacks - of the lives he lived in the past as Premutos' son! He remembers how he appeared in the middle age, when mankind suffered from pestilence and during WWII in Russia. On his (earthly) father's birthday, a case containing some strange old book and a yellow potion is found in their garden, which was hidden by some peasant in 1943, who experimented with witchery in order to re-animate his deceased wife. Whe the young man gets in touch with the book and some of the yellow potion, he mutates into a monster and awakens an army of zombies, ready to bring back the fallen Angel Premutos and to disturb the little birthday party

What started with a routine divorce between Natalie Stein and her husband Tim, will soon take a turn into the unexpected and evolve into scenes of torture, bloodshed and slaughter.

A delinquent brother reads his kid sister two bedtime stories after injecting himself with herion. These disturbingly morbid stories focus on a serial killing blind date and a murderous, psychotic priest.

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.

Olaf and his wife have lost that magic spark in their marriage. He wipes huge boogers on her face and they keep putting things in each other’s food like toenails and dandruff. Marriage counselors in the form of Hitler and Bin Laden seem completely alien to them, a secret baby is accidentally cooked, their genitals seem mutated, etc.

The toxic chemical rediscovered in the original film causes more death and destruction across Germany, leading to a new mutation unlike anything the world has ever seen...

Bob is a stereotype of a construction worker. He's not particularly hard-working and his thoughts are only on food and women. His hard-working boss, the site manager, doesn't like that at all. While working with his excavator, Bob comes across an old bomb. When he tries to retrieve it, there is an explosion and Bob inexplicably gets into the hostile time of the Nazi regime, somehow just tries to get back to today and has to survive a lot...

A condensed version of Mutation 2: Generation Dead and Mutation 3: Century of the Dead, Mutation Annihilation follows the remaining survivors of a plague-infested Germany as they fight for survival against the mutated humans they once called their kin. As the plague spreads, turning more and more into monsters, a band of warriors emerge to stop the madness once and for all.

On the way back from visiting her mother in a mental home, Kim Knaur sees, how Claire is dragged into an abandoned cabin by a few boys from a lover-boy gang. She runs home and gets the gun of her father to free Claire. After Claire is rescued, and Kim gets to know that the boys from the cabin weren't the only ones who abused Claire, the two girls decide, connected by their common fate, to take revenge on all of their tormentors.

The story revolves around Hans, a kind-hearted but not particularly bright young man. He is bored on his father's farm. He would love to see something of the world and find a woman to marry. So he sets off and wants to visit his grandmother at the same time. However, the route takes him right through the fairytale land of the Brothers Grimm, where he meets various characters from their stories: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Mother Hulda, the Brave Little Tailor, Puss in Boots, Master Pfriem and, finally, Father Death. The latter is a little under the weather and the unsuspecting Hans helps him back on his feet.

Ittenbach's early works that inspired Black Past.

Some troubled youth go into the woods with their counselor for some counseling. An extra-terrestrial werewolf from space shows up and begins killing them.

A behind the scenes film about the making of Olaf Ittenbach's second feature film, "The Burning Moon." The documentary was sold as a separate videotape from the original film, and features interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and clips from the film itself.

Spouses bully and terrorize each other and their children.

A prison bus with over a dozen criminals on board has an accident and rams another car, in which Dr. Douglas Madsen was on his way home. Most of the prisoners die. Four of them survive, one of them severely injured. After having killed all the guards, they head for the woods. They take Dr. Douglas Madsen hostage. Suddenly a huge house appears in the middle of the woods. The leader of the group, Arthur, emphasizes that he will kill Douglas and every single member of the "family" if his wounded brother would die. Meanwhile some members of the family show strange behavior, and very soon mayhem breaks loose.

Reveals the extreme measures lawmakers and critics go through to censor avant-garde artists, who walk the fine line between art, perversion, religion and devious sexual behavior.

A woman whose family was brutally murdered when she was little is instructed by her family's ghosts to bring the killers to them so their souls can rest in peace.

Three couples meet by chance during a paddling trip somewhere in rural nowhere. What no one suspects is that Phil and Linda are two cold-blooded killers who have already brutally murdered several unsuspecting hikers. While at the beginning each couple has its own problems, a fight for naked survival soon breaks out in the idyllic nature...

Behind the scenes of Olaf Ittenbach's 2001 thriller

A look behind the scenes of Olaf Ittenbach's splatter classic, which was made over a period of four years with a total budget of just DM 180,000. We learn the essentials about the realization of the elaborate special effects and filming, numerous scene excerpts as well as interviews with actors and producers.