Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Ten years after witnessing the brutal murder of her parents by a sickle wielding maniac in a dress, Jeanette (Valerie Niehaus) is discharged from a mental institution to take up work as a French tutor for a trio of spoilt teenagers. However, her new life becomes a nightmare once again when a mysterious killer starts to bump off those around her using a sickle as a weapon…A forgettable title and bland DVD cover did very little to get me worked up about this film, which I only ended up watching because I wanted to gain back some much needed shelf space. But what I imagined would be just another extremely tedious, crappily directed, shot-on-video American slasher turned out to be something slightly more interesting: a predictable but surprisingly polished German slasher, based on a screenplay by Hammer legend Jimmy Sangster and atrociously dubbed into English, which delivers both bloody violence and tongue-in-cheek silliness.Slick direction, impressive cinematography (with great use of wonderful scenery), decent performances (despite the dubbing), juicy death scenes (including the demise of several cuddly pets) and fun visual references to other horror movies all add to the entertainment factor, but sadly the farcical humour—which comes to the fore in the final act—does detract from the overall effectiveness of the film.5.5 out of 10, rounded up to 6 for having the cojones to liquify a cat and bisect a pooch.

Just watched this movie a couple of hours back & i gotta say Valerie Niehaus who plays Jeanette has so much charisma that she keeps us intrigued & makes this movie into a decent German slasher. Also, i appreciated the gore but did not find the German humor to be funny. But what i really appreciated was the a lot of animals were killed in this movie - 3 to be exact! It leaves no prisoners untouched.....NO MERCY film making is what director Michael Karen intended for this film. Some real annoying characters such as Elle Some wasted characters such as Frau Luste and some underutilized characters such as Liesse made it a bit frustrating but as long as Valerie was on screen, it was cool

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*A woman gets a job tutoring French to three rich brats for the summer. She's a hottie who just got released from the insane asylum. Her doctor thinks this job will be good for her. Some fresh air, some rowdy German teens talking in terrible dubbed English, and a mad killer stalking the house. She has flashbacks to her parents murder and wonders if the killer could be coming for her. The viewer has flashbacks to every single slasher flick he's seen."Flashback" has one good thing going for it: BLOOD. Lots of blood. They don't skimp on the red stuff. No one is safe. Other than the blood, it's lacking. The plot is lame. The acting is fair but since all the teens are selfish ingrates, you don't care whether they get butchered or not. The whole movie had a goofy vibe. Nothing scary here. So if you like blood in your slasher flick and you're not too picky, you might like it. It was OK.

Hell, what´s going on in Germany. A few months after the great movie Anatomie follows this Slasher-Movie about a killer in women-clothes. Horror in Germany is so called "in". But this movie isn´t one of those movies for teens from 12 to 16 years. You must be 18 to see this movie. Well it´s hard in Germany to get an 18 rating, remember: Sleepy Hollow was for children at the age of 12. The movie starts 15 years in the past. A little girl saw the deaths of her parents. A person in women-clothes killed her parents with a sickle. After that experience she went directly to a psycho medical care. Now in this summer she has to teach teenies french. The problem is, the teens live in the mountains, far from other neighbours and the killer with the sickle is right there. Looks like a normal slasher-movie, yeah and it´s like that, but who cares ? There are some bloody scenes (have you ever seen a sickle in a dick?) and the atmosphere is very scary. The acting is sometimes silly, but what are you expecting ? The actors are from local soap-operas... Finally I think you should watch the movie if you are into this genre. My girlfriend wasn´t so happy about that movie but I enjoyed it. I think 8 of 10 (but I like those silly slasher-movies, even I´ve seen this hundred times before).