The first fallen angel, even before Lucifer, is Premutos and he's out to rule the world, both living and dead and in present time a man starts to have visions of historical times long ago were he lived a life as Premutos son. He keeps having flashbacks of different time eras, like from the middle age and so on. Later his father finds an old book together with some potion buried in their garden and gives it to his soon who starts reading it and uses the potion and so mutates into a monster, awakens a legion of zombies and sets out to bring Premutos back.
Premutos is so not for everyone as it's mainly for those heavily into splatter and gore and Olaf Ittenbach, (The Burning Moon, Legion of the Dead), delivers tons of these two things in his movie and that is the main reason for watching it.
Forget budget, forget decent actors, forget most of the common things involved in movie making and be ready to embrace heavy amounts of gore throughout the whole movie. If you're into gore, splatter, low kind of humour, and are willing to overlook the acting and the very low budget, then you should give Premutos a go.
First off the story is actually really cool, especially when we get to see the flashbacks of ancient times, they have a nice atmosphere to them and brings a lot of "feeling" into the movie. Problem though is that a lot of stuff looks cheap and I wonder what this movie would have looked like with a higher budget.
You have to understand that this is truly a b-movie so don't expect anything else when watching it. The actors are really crappy and the worst thing for me when watching it is that the movie is in German, it's dubbed to English and there are no English subtitles which would have been so much better.
So you have to struggle with the dubbing which is also quite bad in a lot of places in the movie and this brings it down a notch, well it brings it down a whole lot actually. So basically there are a lot of things that you have to overlook when watching Premutos.
I don't know if there has been a copy released with English subtitles on it now though, if that existed it would help a lot. There are some funny stuff in the movie but not too much.
Only reason to see Premutos is for the splatter, gore and if you're a fan of Ittenbach, other than that there would be no point whatsoever for taking time to watch this.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Premutos - Der gefallene Engel
MOVIE YEAR: 1997
DIRECTOR: Olaf Ittenbach
WRITING CREDITS: Olaf Ittenbach
GENRE: Horror, Splatter
CAST: Olaf Ittenbach, Fidelis Atuma, Anke Fabre
COUNTRY: Germany
RUNTIME: 110 min
RATING: 6/10
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