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Trigger warning: All 3 films contain nightmarish images featuring simulated sexual and violent acts, as well as strobe lights and stroboscopic effects. For adult viewers only.
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DELUXE LIMITED EDITION (2000 UNITS)
2551.01: “The Kid” / 2551.02: “The Orgy of the Damned” / 2551.03: “The End”
Imagine Mad Max run amok in the Mütter Museum: a nightmarish subterranean world of superstition, magic and deformity, ruled by fear and oppression – and “peopled” with a spine-chilling assortment of mutants and masked monstrosities including faceless stormtroopers, parasites, nude figures, taxidermied monkeys, alchemists and other occult horrors. Welcome to the unearthly visions of Austrian artist and director Norbert Pfaffenbichler’s “2551 Trilogy,” a staggering combination of avant garde cinema, post-apocalyptic sci-fi / horror / monster action, dystopian political nightmare, silent cinema techniques (all 3 features are told without dialogue, with different color tinting), endless subterranean labyrinths shot in abandoned WW2 bunkers in Vienna, myriad grotesque masks, industrial and death metal music, the Bros. Quay and Jan Švankmajer and Joel-Peter Witkin and David Lynch all mixed together. Definitely NOT for the faint of heart, this is experimental filmmaking for fans of SILENT HILL, HELLBOY 2, ERASERHEAD, MAD GOD and BEGOTTEN, The Cure and Bauhaus and Metallica, lucha libre, and (unbelievably) Charlie Chaplin. In other words, it’s like nothing you’ve ever seen (or dreamt of) before.
2551.01 – THE KID (2021, 65 min.) During a violent uprising, the Apeman (Stefan Erber) grabs The Kid (David Ionescu) in a burlap sack mask with two crude eyeholes clutching a deformed mummy-doll, and runs off with him. So begins the epic odyssey of the resilient Apeman and the vulnerable Child struggling to stay together in an underground world where the mutant dregs of civilization barely eke out an existence.
2551.02 – THE ORGY OF THE DAMNED (2023, 83 min.) Separated from The Kid at the end of Part 01, the Apeman loses his bearings and descends into a dungeon labyrinth of surreal sexual depravity, searching for a female wrestler in a luchadora mask (Veronika Herber). Meanwhile, The Kid (Juri Föger) is brutally indoctrinated into the ways of oppression by the police state.
2551.03 – THE END (2025, 82 min.) Years have gone by, but the Apeman continues his search for the now-grown Kid, who has become an Inspector (Ben Schiola) for the police state. Meanwhile, the carnival-masked Dictator (Stephane Marin) lords over goblin markets selling crucified monkeys and alchemists hawking living homunculi in jars. Part 03 is the most David Lynch-like of the Trilogy: after entering an anti-matter dimension, the Apeman emerges as the Apewoman (Manuela Deac), to wreak terrible vengeance on the tools of the oppressive state.
