Anatomy

When she arrives, she sees that one of their corpses is a student whose life she saved on the train, and whose cause of death doesn't make sense relative to what she learned about his medical condition.

When she starts to dig deeper into the facts, she finds that she is in the middle of a secret medical underground called the anti-Hippocratic society, and if she doesn't watch out, she and her roommate will be joining their subjects for live, unanaesthetized autopsies.

Well, wouldn't you know it, but almost everyone in the world is in on the conspiracy but her, including her own grandfather, Tony Orlando and half of Dawn, Helmut Kohl, and every doctor except her and her dad.

NUDITY REPORT

female nudity only from an anonymous corpse

male nudity from

Sebastian Blomberg (pubes)
Benno Furmann (buns)
Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey (prolonged buns, brief side-frontal)
Holger Speckhahn (buns)

And even her dad knows about it, but he's a wuss and won't either participate or rat them out.

DVD info from Amazon.

Widescreen anamorphic, 2.35:1
Full-length director commentary
Making-of featurette and a special on make-up
two deleted scenes
the usual bios, trailers, TV ads, and a music video

It is an excellent DVD, loaded with features, but the movie is just a mediocre genre flick, and there is virtually no female nudity.

In fact, the female nudity is a bit of a rip-off, because several people are shown to be victims of the live autopsies, and they are naked. But when Franka Potente gets on the table, she is fully dressed. She's not even in her underwear! She must have a helluva nudity clause.

It is an intelligent and well-made film by genre standards, and competently acted, but I didn't find it very scary. Not much in the way of shock or mystery or surprise. Just a watchable film to catch on rental or cable when you have time to kill.

By the way, the DVD is in German with English subtitles.

The Critics Vote

Apollo 61/100

The People Vote ...

With their votes ... IMDB summary: IMDb voters score it 6.0, Apollo users 70/100. These scores are consistent with the critical consensus.

With their dollars ... German film, limited US release.

IMDb guideline: 7.5 usually indicates a level of excellence, about like three and a half stars from the critics. 6.0 usually indicates lukewarm watchability, about like two and a half stars from the critics. The fives are generally not worthwhile unless they are really your kind of material, about like two stars from the critics. Films under five are generally awful even if you like that kind of film, equivalent to about one and a half stars from the critics or less, depending on just how far below five the rating is.

My own guideline: A means the movie is so good it will appeal to you even if you hate the genre. B means the movie is not good enough to win you over if you hate the genre, but is good enough to do so if you have an open mind about this type of film. C means it will only appeal to genre addicts, and has no crossover appeal. D means you'll hate it even if you like the genre. E means that you'll hate it even if you love the genre. F means that the film is not only unappealing across-the-board, but technically inept as well.

Based on this description, this film is a C.