Der Todesking (1990) review

Buttgereit presents seven vignettes, each taking place a different day of the week, that have something to do with suicide or murder ... with time-lapsed footage of a corpse being devoured by maggots (and other critters) shown in-between: on Monday, a deceptively normal-looking fellow calls his employer to resign and then takes too many sleeping pills in a bathtub, for Tuesday, a guy rents a Nazi-themed exploitation movie and then shoots his girlfriend in the face, on Wednesday, a man confesses to a female stranger on a park bench how he butchered his wife (and then she kills him), and so on.  While much of it is crudely made, the real problem I have with it is that the segments are too brief: for example, I would have liked to have known what lead the young lady to strap on a film camera and record herself shooting up a rock concert or, for the last section ("Sunday"), why the bloke in his apartment is in such a state of torment that he'd want to bash his head against the wall.  However, the most chilling component of the feature is the Thursday piece, where Buttgereit records an unnamed bridge in Germany and lists the names of individuals who jumped off of it.  Maybe that's all you can really say about "The King of Death": he's undefeated and waiting patiently for us.