Antibodies

Gripping from the stylish opening salvo (a bloody shoot-out and a nude maniac chased through neon-washed streets) to the heart-stopping moral dilemma of the showdown, director Christian Alvart's German psycho-thriller is an expert blend of The Silence of the Lambs and Tattoo. Did a jailed child serial killer (played by the disturbingly deadpan André Hennicke) also murder a girl from a suburban German village? If not - and he's not saying - then who did? Upstanding country cop Wotan Wilke Möhring suspects someone local, which causes community paranoia. But the imprisoned lunatic has a malevolent psychodrama in store, one meant to destroy Möhring's family and undermine his Christian faith forever. The stark twists and fiendishly clever turns taken by this crisply shot frightener are extraordinarily potent, leading Alvart's study of evil to a stunning conclusion.