Das Grauen kennt keine Grenzen (1993)
5KDas Grauen kennt keine Grenzen: Directed by Jean Bodon. With Meg Foster, Frederic Forrest, Mariah Reed, Bever-Leigh Banfield. Several years after her husband’s murder, a haunted widow approaches the police with new evidence. Unfortunately the perpetrators discover that the case is re-opened, and they set out to kill the eyewitnesses and the widow herself.
“Straight-to-video, almost like a life-time presentation sees this sleepy, if rather underwhelming suspense drama treads water for so long to only end on a whimper. A young woman and her children horrifyingly watch from their car as her husband is beaten to death by two drunken rednecks in a car-park of a fast-food joint. Quite a few years later the case remains unsolved, but sheu0026#39;s moved on with her life. Thatu0026#39;s until sheu0026#39;s given a document from one of the old officers on the case which can reveal the killers and so she goes about seeking help from the public over a TV board cast. However the killers happen to be watching and decide that they want to pay her a visit. But also witnesses of her husbandu0026#39;s death are being brutally murdered one-by-one. Is there a connection is she next along with her children?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe muddled script is thick on drama (where there are some very out-of- sorts, contrived and unconvincing developments), little suspense (weakly delivered) with a quite generic wrap-up. Sadly I found moments unintentionally laughably, mainly that of our trashy killers who were far from threatening. It didnu0026#39;t feel much like a thriller, but a piece looking more so of the affects facing victims of these types of deplorable acts of violence. Itu0026#39;s rather numbing, possibly purposely done and this could be contributed to a non-surprising reveal. Meg Foster gives a strong willed, solemn performance, other than her Frederic Forest shows up in a minor part. Jean Bodonu0026#39;s direction is taut, but lifeless with a real lack of style.”
