Crawlspace is a classic claustrophobic
journey into the horror realm, featuring two major stars in horror, Talia
Balsam (Lori Bancroft) and Klaus
Kinski (Karl Guenther), produced
by Robert Bessi along side with ex-producer Charles Band of Full Moon Entertainment and written
and directed by David Schmoeller. Guenther, is a
physician and has a nasty habit of trapping, capturing and torturing young women
to death by means of a secret crawlspace designed as air vents in every
apartment building that he manages. Lori Bancroft, a single young college
student answers an ad about a vacant apartment, oblivious that a few
unfortunate incidents occurred there previously. She agrees to rent the
apartment and Guenther couldn’t be happier. Guenther writes daily in his
journal detailing his addiction in torturing and killing and how it is the only
way he can feel “life". He keeps one of his victims as a pet, cutting out her
tongue and keeping her in a cage. Guenther enjoys spying on his clients through
the air vents in each apartment. He uses
the crawlspace throughout the entire apartment building to spy on his tenants
and plants various contraptions in the apartments to frighten and manipulate them.
Later in the film, between the weirdness of Guenther’s stalking and killing, Josef Steiner (Kenneth
Shippy) visits Guenther after years of searching for him. Steiner claims that his brother died at the
hands of Guenther, who practiced euthanasia, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Steiner
shows Guenther a picture of his father dressed in a World War II SS Nazi
uniform along with papers depicting torture devices his father designed for use
in the concentration camps. Steiner visits Bancroft and is informed of Guenther’s
dark past. Now aware of this new knowledge, Bancroft sets out to find the cause
of the strange happenings in her apartment. Bancroft now realizes
she is being terrorized by Guenther and enters his apartment where she
discovers the crawlspace, which many are booby-trapped while Guenther gives
chase. Crawlspace is a must see for
any fan of the thriller or horror genre. Released on BluRay, DVD and Amazon Prime by Scream! Factory Crawlspace is a must own.
