Klaus Kinski is watching you!

Klaus Kinski was a fucking lunatic and is amazing to watch. I think he's great and under appreciated. He made a number of well respected films, especially the ones he made with Werner Herzog, but my favorites are his shitty horror movies. One of his last movies was the super bad, but good, Crawlspace. Produced by schlock maestro Charles Band, Crawlspace contains the basic elements that make any exploitation film great: boobies, gore and Nazi's. Klaus stars as Karl Guenther, mild mannered landlord by day, psychotic peeping-tom Nazi by night. Guenther ingenuously utilizes his super-sized ventilation system to spy on his comely tenants. When I say super-sized, I mean these vents are big!

Guenther spends his time crafting ridiculous killing devices which require the potential victim to sit or stand in the exact perfect position, reminiscent of the giant "X" the coyote would lay down for the road-runner. Don't think for a second this is a bad thing, since every character is an idiot, and lucky to make it through the day anyway. All of the female tenants are super'80's, bad hair, bad clothes, bad music, all amazing. There is some forced character development with Klaus Kinski's Guenther and some time spent with the girls, but in the end it seemed the director was in a hurry to get the whole thing over with. The movie comes in at a breezy 80 minutes, so we're not talking a huge time commitment here. In my opinion, it could have had more gore and there's always room for more boobies. Kinski is really fun to watch because he exudes madness. If you want more of Klaus you should check out Aguirre, the Wraith of God or Fitzcarraldo. Oh, and one more great thing about Klaus, he gave the world the smoking hot Nastassja Kniski!