The Golden Glove

A true masterpiece if you ask me.

I'm not going to say I liked it because I think it's impossible to like or enjoy a film like this. What I will say it's incredibly done, and it does the job extremely well.

This is exactly how I imagine the sickest serial killers living their lives. It feels authentic; so authentic I even forgot I was watching a movie. Nauseating, disturbing, shocking, and brutal right from the start, and then it gets worse from there.

It's not for everyone, to say the very least. But if you have the stomach for this kind of shock-horror film and you're interested in the absolute madness of serial killers, this film is worth watching. Just once.

Catching this before it leaves Shudder. I don’t even know where to start. This unfiltered character study about a notoriously pathetic German serial killer is very tough to sit through. It's just unrelentingly bleak and depressing. You can smell the rot and feel the desperation and hopelessness as you watch it but you also can't take your eyes off the screen. I can't say I like this, because I feel depressed and grossed out, but that's clearly what it’s going for so it’s a success. There is no glorification of a serial killer here as the film doesn't attempt to make you feel for him. It also offers an interesting commentary on alcoholism with surprising pitch black humor thrown in. This is for sure not for the faint of heart.

There are only a few movies that disgustingly shock me as deeply as the fascinate me. Der goldene Handschuh is one of them. Bravo.

[Filmin] The best Fatih Akin movie in its condition of breaking with everything he made before. The German post-war generation is shown without values, without compassion, without a way out. It runs away from empathy with the killer. It is a movie that stinks, that suffocates, that hurts in its description of worldly horror. The profile of a serial killer in context, in the rottenness of the soul and violence.

A powerfully disturbing telling serial killer.

It makes you wonder the kind of world where a person could do so much horror and so few did or said anything.

I thought the cinematography was well done.

There is a lot of violence so be prepared.

This film achieves a very unsettling realism.

Just a straight up despicable human being.

Eat nothing before watching this. Highly recommended!

very good actors and scenery in my opinion. it all looks so damn authentic. still didn't catch me as i thought it would, dunno why. very brutal from the first minute so be aware....