![]() ![]() Shortly after, the boys meet again and Charly introduces Thomas to a small group of brainwashed radicals. While heading home, teenager Thomas (Nikolas Vogel) sees popular troublemaker Charly (Roger Schauer) being questioned by two policemen and helps him get away. The film opens up with a seemingly ordinary event that becomes the catalyst for the radical transformation of its main protagonist. By the way, did you know that in the early 1990s Hill was invited to introduce a screening of Switchblade Sisters at a small festival in Sweden and much to everyone's surprise he confessed that it was made from a script based on William Shakespeare's Othello? In fact, the mayhem that is used to define it is so out there that it actually makes even wild genre films like Jack Hill's Switchblade Sisters look rather restrained. However, the cinematic characters can be based on authentic characters and this does not automatically make the reality that the film is trying to sell legit. The back cover of this release wants us to believe that it is because The Inheritors is "based entirely on real characters and events that director Walter Bannert discovered in the neo-Nazi camps in 1980s Austria and Germany". Where are the police? So these animals are running wild all across town, trashing bars and beating people up, doing some really nasty things to stoned teenage girls right on the streets, and there is not a single policeman around to confront them? This is West Germany during the late 1970s? ![]() In German or English, with optional English subtitles for the German track. The only bonus features on the disc are two vintage trailers for the film. Walter Bannert's "The Inheritors" (1983) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Mondo Macabro. ![]()
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