Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Connianatu How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

Murphy Howard I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

foamcleaner I expected a lot from this because I read the other reviews. However, 'Auf bösem Boden' was a total letdown. It bored my right from the start and after 20 minutes I fast-forwarded it. I haven't seen a more tedious, artificial film recently. The acting and dialog gave me stomach cramps; everything was so staged I just couldn't bear watching it. Usually, Austrian movies have a very special kind of humor to them. This film hasn't. It's almost as if the filmmaker wanted to be his work so 'different' that it just turned out flat and weak. If you're looking for a good, fun-to-watch Austrian/German horror film, I'd recommend 'Rammbock'.

trashgang I visited Germany a while last year, conventions, shopping and holiday so it was time to catch some movies coming Germany/Swiss/Austria that aren't available in our country. Packed with a few bags this is the first one I watched as a double disc edition. The storyline is simple, girl wants that her boyfriend buys her a loft. But the guy don't want it to buy but after a while he did but things get wrong. He's very aggressive and he ends up killing some one, won't spoil it. But things get worser. It is a funny but also a hard storyline. the blood flows sometimes but it is the acting and the editing that makes this movie one of a kind. It's spoken in German but it do has his English subs. It isn't horror at all, sometimes it made me think of the funny scene's in Natural Born Killers. Anyway, a simple storyline but worth watching if you aren't offended easily.

Coventry There are various ways to interpret "On Evil Grounds", the mental state of seriousness definitely NOT being one of them. This incredibly low-budgeted and amateur produced "new-age Grindhouse" movie is completely shameless, vulgar, tasteless, nonsensical, offensive and demented. At the festival where I attended the Belgian premiere, writer/director Peter Koller – as well as half of the film's cast – was present and he himself described the film as a psychotic survival-version of … "Romeo and Juliet". Yeah, okay! Who knows what to expect from a vague and bizarre one-line summery like that? Only five minutes far into the film, however, and you'll have to admit it's a pretty accurate description! We follow a young couple referred to as Romeo and Juliet. He's a sadistic freak in desperate need of anger management and she's a hopeless romanticist with insatiable sexual desires. They're looking for a loft to settle down together but run into a pair of freaks that are even crazier then themselves. The real estate agent and his boss, some kind of inbred car technician, use the loft to lure young couples, capture them and subsequently submit them to sheer torture. Romeo literally ends up to his neck in trouble, but he's not exactly an obedient hostage and Juliet won't surrender without putting up a fight, neither. The comparisons between "On Evil Grounds" and Tex Avery's lifework are more than justified. The filming style, sense of humor and especially the violence in this movie are very cartoonesque. In terms of exploitation/horror cinema, this translates as OTT extreme vulgarity and splatters that yet never once feels disturbing or even remotely scary. Peter Koller and C° are simply out to disgust people and succeed quite well, I may add. There's random vomiting, wife beating, rough sex, bondage and the wildest masturbation scene ever filmed. Needless to say "On Evil Grounds" isn't a very good film story-wise, but it uses some terrific locations, ingenious set pieces and inventive photography. The limited cast gives away enthusiast performances and Peter Koller obviously knows his horror/spaghetti western/euro-trash classics.

dnet-3 "On Evil Grounds" is very special: It shows that you need not many ingredients to make a great movie: - take takes a greasy-crazy real-estate broker - take a strange young couple - take a maniac - make them all completely odd but lovable characters - make them all fetishists of violence - put them in an absurdly violent situation - add s..x - add blood - add gallon of fun, and - important! - - stir them all until they go nuts one certain afternoon...And you get a visually compelling and must-see "Tour De Force" through comedy, slapstick and unnecessary violence <:)))Of course there's everything else to make "On Evil Grounds" a full meal, like the "funny wannabe-cool cops" sides (austrian!!), a messed-up but rotten-aesthetic setting to garnish the dish, and of course a bucket - wait, what do you need a bucket for? Oh, yeah, for the head *under* the bucket! ;)