Keri russell plays katie armstrong, an american student in. This sinister grimm tale may be based on true events. I would have liked an ending with more of a conclusion but its still a good movie. This one is the scariest based on true events movie that i have ever seen. Oz perkins, the director behind the beautiful slow burner i am the pretty thing that lives in the house and the fantastically creepy the blackcoats daughter turns his considerable talents towards. In the brothers grimm story, cinderella lives with her wicked stepmother and stepsisters and wants to attend a three. Sicilian ghost story is a haunting, lyrical and grim fairy tale in this haunting, lyrical italian film, the true story of a horrific mobrelated kidnapping is. Scheduled for release in germany on march 9, 2006, the film was. Tagged 2000s, based on true story, english, germany. I only watched it twice though since its so creepy. Rohtenburg grimm love story is a film directed by martin weisz with thomas kretschmann, keri russell, thomas huber, rainier meissner, year. Grimm love supposedly takes place after the facts and the story is reenacted via the research and profiling of an american psychology student keri russell residing in germany to work on her thesis. A bizarre true life love story that misses the mark.
The movie is told mostly in flashback, while katie is researching for her paper. While many of the brothers grimms stories were strange, oftentimes very gruesome, and without a lesson, mother holle was different, as it has a true moral behind it. Inspired by true story katie armstrong, a young american woman. Rohtenburg, usually better known under its englishlanguage retitling grimm love, is a film based on the truelife story of the german cannibal. Rent grimm love 2006 starring keri russell and thomas kretschmann on dvd and bluray. The true story behind gretel and hansel and the grimm. Using the hackneyed based on a true story ideal, filmmaker martin weisz offers to show us the results of a chat room meeting between oliver hartwin, a cannibal in training, and proposed voluntary meal simon grombeck. Katie armstrong, an american woman studying criminal psychology, finds herself inexplicably drawn to a bizarre murder case for her thesis. Best director, best actor thomas kretschmann and thomas huber, and best cinematography. One is looking for a lover that is willing to be eatin alive. The film keeps you engaged throughout the 88 minute runtime which i wish was longer.
In grimm and andersen tales, most witches are given a painful death before the end of the story. Yup, its a true story based on the case of armin meiwes. However, the penalty in the movie is only that ariel will turn back into a mermaid if she fails. A ragstorichest story, this one follows a downonherluck prostitute julia roberts as she forms a bond with a rich lookingforlove man, richard gere who reluctantly picks her up one night.
Just over five years ago, an eventempered computer technician mutilated, killed and devoured a man after supposedly reaching an agreement over the internet. The cinderella story children know and love, that includes a fairy godmother and a glass slipper differs somewhat from the original brothers grimm version, but both teach that through kindness and perseverence, dreams come true. Fran from dodgeball is actually a total bombshell in real life. Rent grimm love 2006 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix.
The film had its world premiere at london frightfest film festival on 27 august 2006 under the title grimm love. It won the melies dargent at the luxembourg international film. Grimm love is not the most shocking, violent, or gory film on the subject of cannibalism, but the story is based on true events which are adhered. Grimm love is an original story that moves along at a snails pace, and annoyingly goes back and forth between flashbacks. I seen so many weird movies but i was stuck on finding this one after hearing about the true story it was based on. Craziest part is that this whole film, the story and its plot, is partly based on a real story. Disneys film tells the story of how pocahontas saves the life of english explorer john smith in the 17th century, after native american savages attack him, and the pair eventually fall in love. Grimm love, a changed but effective title, making reference to the horrific children stories by the brothers grimm with which all german children have been terrorized, is a very good movie. But with something like grimm love, the premise practically begs for an anatomical dissection of the main narrative gimmick. Grimm love follows a graduate student who currently resides in germany as she researches oliver hagen, a cannibal, for her thesis. Inspired by the true story of a german cannibal and a man he met on the internet who consented to be killed and eaten, grimm love uses russellplaying an american grad student studying in germanythe same way godzilla used burr.
The first edition contained 86 stories, and by the seventh edition in 1857, had 210 unique fairy tales. Extended trailer for grimm love, inspired by the armin meiwes cannibalism case in germany. Best horror movies ever isnt sure if its because grimm love was based on the true story that made the worldwide news about armin meiwes also known as the cannibal of rotenburg, but i think that even if i didnt know that, this film wouldve still played with my head. Grimm love is the fictionalized account of a graduate student doing her thesis on an actual true crime of cannibalism which occurred in germany in 2001. Olivers story is a lonely man, who suffers worst when his mom is found dead. The mermaid can only remain a human if she finds true love s kiss and the prince falls in love with and marries her.
That is, as a clumsy and unnecessary framing device. This cannibal situation is unlike anything shes ever heard before. With thomas kretschmann, keri russell, thomas huber, rainier meissner. So lets eat the vegetables before getting to dessert. Grimm love 2006 thomas kretschmann in grimm love 2006 grimm love 2006. Crime films based on actual events snuff films in fiction films about cannibalism 2000s exploitation films 2000s lgbtrelated films. Keri russell whose famous show felicity ive never actually seen, but loved her in waitress oh, the irony plays katie, while thomas.
Henson tells the true story of civil rights activist ann atwater, who formed some kind of. This wraparound story is actually rather redundant, since russell only appears on screen in order to link together all the flashbacks that. However, that might not have been true for 10th century celtic tales. One of the major forces behind wanting to watch this film for me is that its a true story. For example, morgan le fay, who is probably welsh in origin, was a positive figure who helped and healed king arthur until the th century, when she was turned into an antagonist. For one, the people involved would have been through horrible and, apparently, repetitive tragedies. Snow white is just 7 years old when the huntsman takes her into the forest with. There is an earlier movie based on the story called cannibal, which is. I must say it is pretty sick to have a man advertise for a willing subject who desires to be eaten by him. The true story behind gretel and hansel is even darker than the horror movie. The other with an exact opposite mental condition desires that his lover would eat him alive starting with biting off his penis. A grimm love story was inspired by the true story of armin meiwes, who was convicted of the 2001 death of a.
The mermaid can only remain a human if she finds true loves kiss and the prince falls in love with and marries her. A grimm love story directed by martin weisz, starring martin weisz, thomas kretschmann, keri russell graduate student katie armstrong researches cannibal killer oliver hagen for her thesis. A grimm love story was inspired by the true story of armin meiwes, who. Grimm love is a dark yet fascinating look on the crimes armin meiwes committed. A grimm love story was inspired by the true story of armin meiwes, who was convicted of the 2001 death of a man he killed and partially ate who he met through a posting on the internet, in which he asked for a volunteer willing to be slaughtered. Movies and tv shows like grimm if you like grimm you are looking for suspenseful, exciting and captivating movies or tv shows about with supernatural, legends and myths, creature, police detective, life turned upside down, good versus evil and hunt down themes of crime, drama and fantasy genre shot in usa. This is supposedly based on a true story about oliver hartwin and his cannibalistic murder of simon grombeck. Grimm love is a 2006 psychological horror film inspired by the armin meiwes cannibal murder. Jacob ludwig carl grimm was born in january 4, 1785, in hanau, germany. The true stories behind beauty and the beast and other. Grimm love original german title rohtenburg is a psychological horror film inspired by the armin meiwes cannibal murder case. Obviously the movie exaggerates it a little bit, but its closer to the real story than most based on a true story horror movies. New 2019 movies based on true stories best movies based.
Grimm brothers monument at hanau germany, sculpted by syrius eberle. The best of the bunch is martin weiszs chilling grimm love, a true story starring thomas kretschmann, keri russell, thomas huber, simon grobeck, nikolai kinski and axel wedekind. Based on the true story of armin meiwes, the cannibal who killed and ate bernd jrgen armando brandes, voluntary and aware victim. Grimm love tells the true and very sick story that happened in germany some years ago where two genuinly sick and disturbed men meet in a cannibal chatroom. The story is told in flashbacks as katie researches these men and their pasts. Everything else is based on the true story of armin meiwes and bernd jurgen brandes. Its not the only grimm tale that should get the horror treatment. A grimm love story was inspired by the true story of armin meiwes, who was convicted of the 2001 death of a man he killed and. Also shown under the titles grimm love and rohtenburg, butterfly. Child abuse even more shockingly, much of the violence in grimms fairy tales is directed at children. For centuries, grimms have taken it upon themselves to police and hunt the wesen population and to protect normal humans from the unknown threat around them. Grimms fairy tales, originally known as the childrens and household tales german.
The real stories behind these disney movies will ruin your. Grimm love 2006 while studying in germany, an american college student keri russell investigates the crimes of a cannibal thomas kretschmann. The term, a cinderella story has become a common way to express the idea of a happy ending that is almost unbelievable. From elton john biopic rocketman to the sowilditmustbetrue tale of hustlers, 2019 was a big year for movies based on true stories. The origins of brave, tangled, and frozen mythcreants. Maybe its a good thing the movie isnt based on a true story.
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