Olaf Ittenbach
Directing
Biography
Ittenbach was born in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany. Before creating his first film, Black Past (1989), he worked as dental technician. In 2003, he won the Golden Glibb Award for Beyond the Limits at the Weekend of Fear in Nuremberg, Germany In 2005, he created the special effects for the big budget horror/action film, BloodRayne, directed by Uwe Boll.
Born: April 1, 1969
Place of Birth: Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
Known For
The Burning Moon
A delinquent brother reads his kid sister two bedtime stories after injecting himself with heroin. These disturbingly morbid stories focus on a serial killing blind date and a murderous, psychotic priest.
Black Past
Tommy finds a cursed mirror and a diary in an attic in the new house they moved in. The mirror starts to give Tommy horrible and gruesome visions as his crush keeps rising from the dead.
Premutos: The Fallen Angel
Premutos is the first of the fallen Angels, even before Lucifer. His Goal is to rule the world, the living and the dead. His son should pave the way for him and appears arbitrary throughout human history and is then recognized as some kind of monster. In the present time, a young man living in Germany begins to suffer from visionary flashbacks - of the lives he lived in the past as Premutos' son! He remembers how he appeared in the middle age, when mankind suffered from pestilence and during WWII in Russia. On his (earthly) father's birthday, a case containing some strange old book and a yellow potion is found in their garden, which was hidden by some peasant in 1943, who experimented with witchery in order to re-animate his deceased wife. Whe the young man gets in touch with the book and some of the yellow potion, he mutates into a monster and awakens an army of zombies, ready to bring back the fallen Angel Premutos and to disturb the little birthday party
The Making of Burning Moon
A behind the scenes film about the making of Olaf Ittenbach's second feature film, "The Burning Moon." The documentary was sold as a separate videotape from the original film, and features interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and clips from the film itself.
Chain Reaction
A prison bus with over a dozen criminals on board has an accident and rams another car, in which Dr. Douglas Madsen was on his way home. Most of the prisoners die. Four of them survive, one of them severely injured. After having killed all the guards, they head for the woods. They take Dr. Douglas Madsen hostage. Suddenly a huge house appears in the middle of the woods. The leader of the group, Arthur, emphasizes that he will kill Douglas and every single member of the "family" if his wounded brother would die. Meanwhile some members of the family show strange behavior, and very soon mayhem breaks loose.
Family Saga
Spouses bully and terrorize each other and their children.
Riverplay
Three couples meet by chance during a paddling trip somewhere in rural nowhere. What no one suspects is that Phil and Linda are two cold-blooded killers who have already brutally murdered several unsuspecting hikers. While at the beginning each couple has its own problems, a fight for naked survival soon breaks out in the idyllic nature...
Garden of Love
A woman whose family was brutally murdered when she was little is instructed by her family's ghosts to bring the killers to them so their souls can rest in peace.
Mutation 2 - Generation Dead
The toxic chemical rediscovered in the original film causes more death and destruction across Germany, leading to a new mutation unlike anything the world has ever seen...
Dard Divorce
What started with a routine divorce between Natalie Stein and her husband Tim, will soon take a turn into the unexpected and evolve into scenes of torture, bloodshed and slaughter.
Filmography
as Spiegel
as Vater
as Guy on Street
as Self
as Walker
as Prisoner
as Father
as Pathologe See
as Hitchhiker
as Walker
as Daniel
as Self
as Matthias
as Peter
as Himself
as Thommy