DEATHCEMBER "PIG"

For the stunnig Christmas horror anthology DEATHCEMBER, produced by Dominic Saxl, Ivo Scheloske and Frank Vogt and sponsored by the funding board in Hessen, I shot the episode PIG : During a Christmas rave Franco meets a beautiful blonde woman. He has no idea that the party will turn into a nightmare for him. Because she is not alone and will carry out a bloody revenge...

DEATHCEMBER "PIG"

Julita Witt in PIG.

DAS KALTE HERZ

After five years of development this adaption of Wilhelm Hauffs dark fairytale  finally premiered in 2016 in  German cinemas.
I started working on the screenplay in 2010 with funding from the MFG Baden -Würthemberg und Studio Babelsberg. It was directed by Johannes Naber ("Zeit der Kannibalen") and starred Frederik Lau and Moritz Bleibtreu . 

AVE MARIA

In 2016,  I directed , amongst others, a music video for the talented singer Sarah Ego aka ELIYO on location in Rome,  produced by Fritz Graner, starring Giovanni Lombardo Radice aka John Morghen, Arthur Abraham and Gregorio Valenti. 
It will be released in the beginning of 2017

AVE MARIA

Giovanni Lombardo Radice

AVE MARIA

 Andreas Marschall, producer Fritz Graner and Arthur Abraham

HAVANA DARKNESS 

 I edited this Bulgarian/American/Cuban Co-Production,
directed by Guillermo Ivan and produced by Loris Curci
It is one of the first horror movies located in Cuba. 

"MASKS" US RELEASE

finally  released in the US in a great 3-disc set , including Sebastian Levermann´s beautiful score, my film from 2010 was ratet #1 of the 30 best Horror film releases of 2016 by horrorphilia.com

 "Ultra-violent German giallo Masks is a brutal, stylish low budget wonder"
comingsoon.net
http://www.comingsoon.net/horror/news/775543-blu-ray-review-masks#DEZWmOB2vftRBHdD.99

ANDREAS MARSCHALL ON  ALRAUNE

Alraune was the first section of German Angst, the primordial episode, so to say, as it harks back to the early days of German expressionism, when Germany had been the leading exporter of fantastic movies, before most talented directors left for France and later Hollywood. Alraune was filmed no less than 5 times between 1918 and 1930 (and remade in 1952) and thus ideally suited to help us revive the impulses of THE DEMONIC SCREEN (Lotte Eisner) that still pervade our collective memories with their ghostly power in German Angst.

In its structure Alraune is a classic yet modern gothic tale in which we accompany Eden, an adventurous Berlin photographer with a devil-may-care attitude, along his route down an urban nightmare. Lured by the appeal of exciting femme fatale Kira, he gains admission to an exclusive party circle that uses an extract of mandrake roots as a drug to stimulate pleasure, an aphrodisiac that seems to turn erotic dreams into reality. Whoever tastes of the mandragora needs no other partner for ecstasy; its power has the source in the ego – and the ego can be monstrous.

As the myth of the lust- and death-inducing mandrake root has haunted German screens for so long – of special note are the 2 versions starring Brigitte Helm, both set in the feverish Berlin of the 1920s – it strongly suggested itself for a new adaptation. My (intentionally loose) free adaptation is set in modern Berlin, but emphatically not in the naturalistic city of the so-called Berlin School. On the contrary, my Berlin is suffused in strong-contrast primary colours, a city of nightmarish delirium, in which dreams and fears acquire alarming reality. I love classic narrative and genre films, especially in their most obsessive European manifestations – a cinema that is primarily felt and experienced.

Instead of CGI effects, Alraune features analogue dream sequences shot with the aid of supplementary prisms from the 1970s. I prefer analogue haziness and ambiguity to digital image sharpness and definition, and I favour blur shots – images that cannot immediately be decoded and that fuse with the viewer’s own imagination, shape-shifting forms between pleasure and horror, the ambivalence of passion and addiction.

(Foto: Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt + Andreas Marschall
all Set- PHOTOS of this section by THOMAS ECKE)

GERMAN ANGST

GERMAN ANGST

"Three German tales of Love, sex and death in Berlin" 
2015

GERMAN ANGST

"Three German tales of Love, sex and death in Berlin" 
2015

MASKS

AWARDS
Audience award „Festival des fantastischen Films PIFFF“ in Paris 2011 -
Cine + Award best feature film - Paris 2011
Audience Award at „Morbido Merida Festival“, Mexiko 2011. -
Best Film, Best Actress (Susen Ermich) „Frightnights“ Vienna 2011. -
Special Mention of the Melies Jury at “Leeds International Festival” 2011.  
Special Mention  “Nightmare Filmfest in Ravenna” 2011
"Anthonio Margheriti -Award"  Tohorror"-Festival Turino 2012
Best Director: Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre Festival 2012

POLLS
Best German Film 2012 DEADLINE print magazine
Best Screenplay, Best  Director 2012 thehellboundheart.com 
Best German Film 2012 WatchTheShit.de GERMANY
Best Film 2012 Ingenerecinema.com ITALY
top ten of best horror movies 2012 , pos. 8  aintitcoolnews.com USA


AUSZEICHNUNGEN
Puplikumspreis beim „Festival des fantastischen Films PIFFF“ in Paris 2011 -
Preis des TV-Senders Cine + fur den besten Langfilm - Puplikumspreis beim „Morbido Merida Festival“, Mexiko 2011. - Preise für besten Film und beste Darstellerin beim „Frightnights“ in Wien 2011. - Special Mention der Jury beim “Leeds International Festival” 2011. - Special Mention der Jury beim “Nightmare Filmfest in Ravenna” 201
Beste Regie: Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre Festival

MASKS

"Andreas Marschalls Filme (...) erzählen immer auch von Visionen und Aufbrüchen, die sich ins Dunkle und Zerstörerische verkehrt haben: In TEARS OF KALI und MASKS liegen die Wurzeln des Schreckens in den fehlgeleiteten künstlerischen und gesellschaftlichen Experimenten der 70er."
EPD Film

"...the sheer energy MASKS exuded in every scene (...) makes MASKS another film that will surely show up in my list for best horrors of the year. Currently touring the festival circuit, if you love the works of the Italian masters of horror, you should make it your duty to seek out MASKS."
Aintitcoolnews.com USA

"Must-see of the month"
CINEMA 

TEARS OF KALI

"Andreas Marschalls Filme (...)  erzählen immer auch von Visionen und Aufbrüchen, die sich ins Dunkle und Zerstörerische verkehrt haben: In TEARS OF KALI und MASKS liegen die Wurzeln des Schreckens in den fehlgeleiteten künstlerischen und gesellschaftlichen Experimenten der 70er."
EPD Film



























AWARDS:
Special Mention: Brussels BIFFF 2005,
Silver Melies : Cinenygma Luxembourg 2004,  
Golden Ring: Ravenna Nightmare Filmfestival 2004,
Best Horror Film : New York Independent Film Festival 2005,
Best Art Direction, Best Editing:
Tijuana, Mexiko, 2005

photos Wolfgang Borrs/artwork Niklas Oloffson

TEARS OF KALI

photo by Wolfgang Borrs




















"In this writer’s humble opinion, Tears of Kali is one of the best – and, believe me, scariest, and I mean it horror movies in years.  (...) I was blown away by Marschall’s mature and stylish direction, his surprising use of b&w and colour, digital video and Super-8, silent inserts and mock-documentary sequences that pay homage to Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust. But it’s the script that makes the difference. Tears of Kali enormously benefits from Marschall’s detailed, refined screenplay, which mixes extreme gore and evocative horror and makes the best use of a few claustrophobic sets (an asylum, a psychiatrist’s study, a basement that reminds one of Fulci’s The Beyond). Even the cast (which features Mathieu Carriére and spaghetti western veteran Peter Martell) is astonishingly good."
Roberto Curti , offscreen,com

"Der schönste und intensivste deutsche Horrorfilmen seit 20 Jahren."
Sebastian Selig (DEADLINE, SPLATTING IMAGE)

ARTWORKS

since 1981 I designed more than 100 airbrush
 cover artworks
for many rock and metal bands





































BLIND GUARDIAN: "Nightfall in Middle Earth"
Germany 1998

ARTWORKS

AZATHOTH 
(2020)
inspired by H.P. Lovecraft,
designed for Matthan Harris` short film "CosMonster"

ARTWORKS

Obituary: "10 000 ways to die", USA 2016, Relapse Records

ARTWORKS

OBITUARY , USA 2017

ARTWORKS

EVERTALE: "The great brotherwar", 2017

MUSIC VIDEOS

From 1990 till today I directed more than 100 music videos for bands like Kreator, Sodom, Guano Apes, Extrabreit, Rage, Thunderhead, Gotthard and many more.