In a small port town, at the turn of the century, children are disappearing. A mysterious man in black who stalks the town may be Death itself. And nine-year-old Laurin is suffering terrifying dreams and hallucinations of a man carrying a sack and frightened children calling for help from behind closed windows.

Dóra Szinetár
as Laurin

Brigitte Karner
as Flora Andersen

Károly Eperjes
as Van Rees

Hédi Temessy
as Olga

Barnabás Tóth
as Stefan Berghaus

Kati Sír
as Frau Greta Berghaus

Endre Kátay
as Pastor Van Rees

János Derzsi
as Arne

Zoltán Gera
as Herr Engels

Ildikó Hámori
as Frau Johansson
FolknHell
*Laurin* was made in 1989, although somebody appears to have forgotten to tell the film. With its saturated reds, misty rural interiors and faces arranged as though Hammer Horror had only just shut up shop for the evening, Robert Sigl’s film looks several decades older. That is not merely decorative...