Der Fan (1982)

Directed by

Eckhart Schmidt

Genre

drama film, horror film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

18

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 74 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage girl becomes fixated on a pop singer and arranges to meet him. When he tells her he does not love her back, her obsession takes a violent turn.

disturbingtensepsychologically intensedarkunsettlingobsessiveclaustrophobictragic

What happens

Der Fan (transl. The Fan) is a 1982 West German horror thriller film directed by Eckhart Schmidt. The film follows a disturbed teenage girl's obsessive love for a pop singer named R who, after meeting her, eventually reveals that he does not love her back, leading to disastrous consequences. An uncut and restored version was released by Mondo Macabro on DVD and Blu-ray in 2015. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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