by Linda Kay

Also Known As: Nothing Bad Can Happen

Directed by: Katrin Gebbe

This review contains a severe Kitty Carnage Warning!

Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!

Synopsis: A shocking film made even moreso by being based on true events. Tore (Julius Feldmeier) is an epileptic young man without a steady home who finds his sincere identity in a group of self-proclaimed Jesus Freaks. After given shelter by a dysfunctional family headed by the horrifically abusive father Benno (Sascha Alexander Gersak), Tore becomes just another one of the man’s hapless victims yet faces increasingly horrific torture with unwavering faith.

Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): Tore is forced to sleep in a child’s tent outside the house on the family’s allotment. A female longhair ginger tabby cat sometimes keeps him company.

In a later scene, Tore picks up the cat and pets her as he walks toward the house.

Benno’s bursts of anger come unexpectedly and even the smallest thing can set him off. During one of his rages, he confronts Tore outside the tent and reaches down to pick up the cat.

Severe Kitty Carnage Warning! Tore begs for Benno to put the cat down but the heartless man carries the kitty to the rain barrel and dunks her in (shown on screen but with a cutaway so a fake cat could be substituted). He taunts Tore, saying his “charity” won’t do any good and urges the young man to try to save the cat. As Tore steps forward, he falls into a seizure. Disgustingly, Benno leaves the drenched body of the drowned cat (a stuffed one in real life) next to Tore to see when he wakes up.

Kitty Cameo: There is also a white cat who lives somewhere nearby that Tore looks at through a window.

Final Mewsings: No matter what you believe, we all agree on what should happen to cat killers in the afterlife!

Many thanks to Wahrhaftig for letting us know about the cats in this film.

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