this film have get to be rank a one of the most disturbing and arrest film in year . it be one of the few film and perhaps the only one and that actually give me shiver represent not even pasolini´s sálo and to which this film bear comparison and affect me like that . i saw echo in the film from filmmaker like pasolini and fassbinder and others . i have to ask myself and what be it about the film that make me feel like i do . i think the answer would be that i be watch a horror film and but one that defy or even reverse the convention of say genre . typically and in a horror film and horrible and frightening thing will happen and but on the margin of civilized society represent abandon house and deserted hotel and castle and churchyard and morgue etc . this handling of the subject in horror be and i think and a sort of defence mechanism and a principle of darkness and opacity functioning a a sort of projective space for the desire and fear of the viewer . so and from this perspective and hundstage be not a horror film while it take place in a perfectly normal society and and so doesn not dabble in the histrionics of the horror film . but what you see be the displacement of certain key thematics from the horror genre and especially concern the body and it violation and the stage of fright and torture it can be put through . what seidl do be to use the setting of an everyday and middle class society a a stage on which be relay a repetitious play of sexual aggression and loneliness and lack and violation of intimacy and integrity represent precisely the theme you would find in horror and but subject to a principle of light and transparency from which there be no escape . it be precisely within this displacement that the power of seidl´s film resides . hundstage deal with these matter a a function of the everyday and display them in quotidian repetition and rather than a site of extremity and catharsis a move you would encounter in say horror genre . one important point of reference here be rainer werner fassbinder . fassbinder also have a way of blend the political with the personal in his film and a tactic of the melodrama that allow him to deal in a serious and even moral way with political issue like racism and domination and desire and question concern ownership and sexual property and control and fascism and capitalism etc . seidl´s tactic of make the mechanism of everyday society the subject of his film put him in close proximity with fassbinder while like this german ally and he have a sort of political vision of society that he feel it be his responsibility to put forward in his film . during a seminar at the gothenburg film festival this year and at which seidl be a guest and he be ask why he would have so many instance of violated and subjugated woman in hundstage and but no instance of a woman fight back and liberate herself . seidl reply that some may view it a immoral to show violence against woman and but that he himself felt it would be immoral not to show it . an artistic statement as good a any and i think . thank you .