A great, atmospheric and very dark addition to the serial killer genre. Easy comparisons can be found with David Fincher's 'Se7en', as this German film is also set in a grimy, rainy anonymous city, Berlin, as well as having two detective protagonists with contrasting levels of experience in the field. The plot is a neat mutation of Silence of the Lambs, involving an underground culture that has sprung up around a market in the buying and selling of human body art and, obviously, this necessitate find out more...

Unpleasant ex-cop Joong-ho Eom who works as a charmless pimp is severely troubled that his girls have started walking out on him, that is until he discovers that they all shared the same phone number for their last customer, so he starts to track the guy down. This horror-thriller is a film that, not unlike "Memories of Murder" in terms of plot direction and mood, takes convention and turns it inside out. Exploitative yes, violent yes, funny sometimes, art house no, original and entertaining, ve find out more...