Messiah of Evil (3 Stars)

This is the tenth film in the Stuttgart Weird Weekender Festival.

Unlike the previous films in the festival, it isn't a new release. It was made in 1973. There was a long introduction, with a woman speaking enthusiastically about it for almost 20 minutes. She emphasised that most of the crew had worked on well known big budget films in the 1970's and 1980's, so we could expect something special. I admit that I was caught up in the hype.

Then it started. What was I watching? There were so many plots and subplots that I could hardly keep up. The main story began with a woman visiting her father to see why he hasn't been answering her letters. She finds his home abandoned and tries to find out if he's still alive. Her investigations uncover that a dark stranger came to the town a hundred years ago and has promised to return on the anniversary. And there are people in the village who are cannibals. It all gets confusing.

Maybe I'll watch it again to try to understand it. Maybe not.