Directing
Andreas Marschall
Born 1961-01-13 · Karlsruhe, Germany
Andreas Marschall is a German film director, screenwriter, and illustrator renowned for his contributions to the horror genre. He began his career as a record cover artist for rock and metal bands, creating iconic artwork for groups like Kreator, King Diamond, and Blind Guardian. Transitioning into filmmaking, Marschall directed notable films such as Tears of Kali (2004), Masks (2011), and co-directed the anthology German Angst (2015). His work is characterized by atmospheric storytelling and a deep understanding of horror aesthetics, solidifying his status in contemporary German cinema.
Acting credits
5.3Horror anthology consisting of three episodes directed by Jörg Buttgereit, Andreas Marschall and Michal Kosakowski.
German Angst
2015
4.0Criminals have kidnapped the daughter of California real estate magnate Ricardo and demand two million dollars. Detective Steve Woodward of the LAPD is assigned to deliver the ransom, but the transaction goes awry, the money is gone and the girl is dead. Accused of being responsible for the failure and perhaps more, Woodward feels compelled to follow up the unjustified accusations with actual criminal action. His plan: a kidnapping. But things turn out differently than planned.
Track
1999
5.0Guided by his doctor (or is it voices in his head?), a young director is given a mission: to go to Texas to make an abstract roadmovie (“Unfocused film! Focus is repressed!”) about the Housecore Horror Festival of Film and Music, a festival that brings together cinema and extreme music.
Texas Carlos Massacre
2021
NRAn extensive documentary of the band narrated by Tom Angelripper, featuring interviews to current and ex-members, rare pictures and video footage.
Sodom: Lords of Depravity Part I
2005
4.0Veteran Spanish actor Antonio Mayans is kidnapped by a director with whom he made a terrible film in the past, and whose career was destroyed by the failure of it. He seeks revenge and wants Mayans to act on his new project: a snuff movie.
Bring Me the Head of Antonio Mayans
2017
Behind the camera
8.0Four nerve-wracking psychological thrillers in short film format. Cruel games with drastic endings. Each time a woman is involved, a knife, a murder...
Strange Encounters
1989
5.3Horror anthology consisting of three episodes directed by Jörg Buttgereit, Andreas Marschall and Michal Kosakowski.
German Angst
2015
5.3Horror anthology consisting of three episodes directed by Jörg Buttgereit, Andreas Marschall and Michal Kosakowski.
German Angst
2015
5.2Composed of three episodes—titled Kali, Shakti, and Devi—and linked within a narrative framework, it tells the story of the Taylor-Eriksson group, its members, and their extreme practices in search of awareness and liberation from karma. These practices, spiraling into violence and sex, ultimately turn into real nightmares.
Tears of Kali
2004
5.2Composed of three episodes—titled Kali, Shakti, and Devi—and linked within a narrative framework, it tells the story of the Taylor-Eriksson group, its members, and their extreme practices in search of awareness and liberation from karma. These practices, spiraling into violence and sex, ultimately turn into real nightmares.
Tears of Kali
2004
5.2Composed of three episodes—titled Kali, Shakti, and Devi—and linked within a narrative framework, it tells the story of the Taylor-Eriksson group, its members, and their extreme practices in search of awareness and liberation from karma. These practices, spiraling into violence and sex, ultimately turn into real nightmares.
Tears of Kali
2004
6.2Peter and Lisbeth are two young but unfortunate lovers living in a rigid rural community in the Black Forest. She comes from a wealthy family of glassblowers; he is a poor coal worker on the lower end of society. To become rich and respected, Peter makes a pact with a devil named Dutch Michael, who rips out his heart and replaces it with a stone. Robbed of all warmth and feeling, Peter becomes a cold-hearted go-getter who rapidly achieves his goals. Ruthlessly he strives for money and power.
Heart of Stone
2016
5.3Advent – a time of joyful anticipation. You will surely remember the feeling you had as a child, waking up on the first December morning. Rising early, ready to open a new door for 24 consecutive days.
Deathcember
2019
5.3Advent – a time of joyful anticipation. You will surely remember the feeling you had as a child, waking up on the first December morning. Rising early, ready to open a new door for 24 consecutive days.
Deathcember
2019
5.7In the 70s Matteusz Gdula invented an acting method that was supposed to make every actor “shine”. Still, lots of his students die mysteriously and Gdula commits suicide. His method gets banned. Now: Stella, an ambitious, but rather untalented drama student, gets accepted at the „Matteusz Gdula“-school. When she bears witness to some strange occurrences, she gets drawn into the bizarre and deadly web that surrounds the dark secret of the school...
Masks
2011
5.7In the 70s Matteusz Gdula invented an acting method that was supposed to make every actor “shine”. Still, lots of his students die mysteriously and Gdula commits suicide. His method gets banned. Now: Stella, an ambitious, but rather untalented drama student, gets accepted at the „Matteusz Gdula“-school. When she bears witness to some strange occurrences, she gets drawn into the bizarre and deadly web that surrounds the dark secret of the school...
Masks
2011
5.7In the 70s Matteusz Gdula invented an acting method that was supposed to make every actor “shine”. Still, lots of his students die mysteriously and Gdula commits suicide. His method gets banned. Now: Stella, an ambitious, but rather untalented drama student, gets accepted at the „Matteusz Gdula“-school. When she bears witness to some strange occurrences, she gets drawn into the bizarre and deadly web that surrounds the dark secret of the school...
Masks
2011
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Thri3ller
2003
NRIn a acting school in Berlin. The mysterious Elia organizes a course for improving the acting talents, which he calls the "Kali-Process". This technique he learned mid-80s by the infamous "Taylor-Eriksson-Group" in a camp in India. 3 students attend the course and be picked up by Elia on a dangerous journey in their innermost self, which develops into a dangerous trip for everyone involved. Thematically related precursor to "Tears of Kali"(2004).
Der Kali Prozess
2003
NRSomewhere in a blurry space between the life and death instincts, BLACK.WHITE.RED. is a contemplative dream in front of the inner eye, shortly before one's own demise. A film that invites you to decipher it, but then refuses to explain it.
Black.White.Red.
2024
A grisly horror story about a mad scientist is mixed with documentary about the German band "Kreator".
Hallucinative Comas
1991
Two filmmaking friends hang out in Rome and make a Super 8 documentary together. Their journey begins at the home of actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice (Cannibal Ferox) and ends at the home of director Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust).
From Roma With Love
2016