Zero Killed (2012)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2012
	Director: Michal Kosakowski (German Angst)
	Actors: Uli Aigner, Aylin Ayaz, Teresa Behr
	Country: D, A
	Genre: Documentary, Horror
	Conditions of visioning: 04.05.2015, DVD, Home cinema
Synopsis: Ten years ago a group of people were describing how they would kill, and their fantasy was filmed. Now they come back to tell about this experience.
Review: I came to hear about this movie at the Munich Fantasy FilmFest Nights 2015, where was presented the anthology German Angst, produced by this Michal Kosakowski and for which he directed a segment. A poster of Zero Killed is even shown during one of the other segment, for those who could spot it. What attracted me was the explanation behind the title: a movie in which people tell their fantasy about death, so we know that nobody is killed as everything is supposed to occur in the mind of the "killers". The movie is a bit different from what I expected. In fact ten years ago the directed accomplished this project of staging a bunch of people (~20) each in their own fantasy of killing others. The quality of those short films is quite poor but they contain many good ideas, and it is fascinating to see how twisted those improvised screenplay writers could be. The short films are compiled in Zero Killed, mixed with recently recorded interventions by their instigators (most of them German but with a few foreigners). They all talk frankly about what came to their mind at the time and how they lived the experience of bringing their fantasy to (filmed) life. What is nicely done is that the short movies are grouped in various topics and the interviewed reflect on those topics: What are their killing fantasies (giving death or receiving it), Would you torture someone to save others, What about Death Penalty, Violence on TV / Video Games and the impact on children. Those topics can be considered as disturbing and I understand that Zero Killed cannot be shown in cinemas or on TV, but I found the movie interesting in spite of, or maybe because of the big Taboo it tries to discuss.
Rating: 5 /10