Multiplex | Ghoulish Globetrotting

Multiplex asks filmmakers, critics, and artists for short-form responses to the topic at hand. In this Halloween edition, contributors from around the world recommend one scary movie from their home country or region. Florian Widegger on West Germany Sukkubus—Den Teufel im Leib (Georg Tressler, 1989). What happens when a veteran director who helped shape postwar German-language cinema in the 1950s and ’60s decides to have one more go at it in his later years? When he casts two in-demand stage actors in the leading roles, alongside an Italian Playboy model whose physical assets steal the show?