2551.02 – The Orgy of the Damned

  • 82'
  • Austria
  • 2023

Sometime, hopefully not too soon, in a place wherever but not here, all life will have moved underground after a failed uprising. Everybody wears a mask, more often than not of the variety seen only at Halloween these days. In this scary universe (that on closer inspection looks like a twisted, perverted version of our here and now...), a man with a gorilla mask is searching for a little boy with a hessian hood. His quest leads him into a maze of depravity, a pandemonium of all our nightmares and darkest desires – where something awaits that he had already given up on: love.

2551.02 – The Orgy of the Damned is as unique as it gets: a dream-like horror movie that is wordless but full of music and noises. A tribute to silent cinema and its aesthetics that never tries to imitate the cinema of a century ago but creates a modern, disturbingly contemporary poetic from its themes and tropes. This makes 2551.02 – The Orgy of the Damned as much a darkly trippy avant-garde piece as a full-blown scare fest for every genre aficionado.

 

Olaf Möller

  • 82'
  • Austria
  • 2023
Director
Norbert Pfaffenbichler
Premiere
World premiere
Country of production
Austria
Year
2023
Festival Edition
IFFR 2023
Length
82'
Medium
DCP
Language
no dialogue
Producer
Norbert Pfaffenbichler
Sales
sixpackfilm
Screenplay
Norbert Pfaffenbichler
Cinematography
Martin Putz
Director
Norbert Pfaffenbichler
Premiere
World premiere
Country of production
Austria
Year
2023
Festival Edition
IFFR 2023
Length
82'
Medium
DCP
Language
no dialogue
Producer
Norbert Pfaffenbichler
Sales
sixpackfilm
Screenplay
Norbert Pfaffenbichler
Cinematography
Martin Putz