Maja Loom strangles Sandra Lüdke |
On Halloween, Bianca (Maja Loom) recieves a surprise visit from
two intruders in Halloween masks who tie her up and gag her, only then do
they unmask themselves to make themselves known to her as her old
schoolmates Babs (Katja Kontschieder) and Maria (Sandra Lüdke) - the
schoolmates rich daughter Bianca always looked down on. Now though they
want to pay her back all the mental pain she has caused them, by first
torturing the PIN of her credit card out of her. Then Babs, the more
level-headed of the two, decides to go shopping to max out the credit card
of Bianca, while she leaves Maria with their captive. Left alone with
Bianca though, Maria more and more falls apart and before long proves to
be a regular mental case. But despite being almost constantly tortured by
Maria, Bianca somehow manages to free herself, upon which she tries to
strangle Maria to death. Babs arrives just in time though, and together,
she and Maria once again manage to overpower Bianca. Then they torture her
some more while getting totally wasted on the champagne Babs brought home
from her shopping trip. When they get sleepy, they tie Bianca to her bed
and lie down next to her. In the middle of the night though, another
intruder in a Halloween mask shows up to strangle Babs and Maria to death
...
from left to right:
Sandra Lüdke, Maja Loom, Katja
Kontschieder |
Of course, The Halloweenies is another variation on the Unhappy
End!-series main theme (and director Michael Huck's favourite
theme for that matter): Women tieing each other up and torturing each
other. That however is not to say that Halloweenies isn't an
interesting (and well-made) featurette, a fine and mean psycho-drama with
Déborah Behrens perfectly cast as the victim and Sandra Lüdke showing
once again her capability in playing a psycho-bitch (just the roles these
two women played in Huck's Last Laugh
actually). And you can almost depend on Michael Huck's storytelling skills
to spice up his already familiar story with a few surprise plottwists to
make it fresh again ...
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