10 Terrifying German Horror Movies You Probably Haven't Seen
6. Anatomy (2000)
The highest grossing German-language movie of its day, Anatomy (known as 'Anatomie' in its native language) is a 2000 horror flick directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky and starring Franka Potente.
The film follows a young woman named Paula Henning, a medical student who wins a place at a course over the summer at the prestigious University of Heidelberg. Things begin to veer towards the horror genre when the body of a man named David, who Paula had met on the way to the university, shows up on her dissection table. Paula is tasked to dissect the man's heart by her instructor, Professor Grombek, though things continue to spiral into the uneasy as she finds strange markings cut into the man's body.
Anatomy is a movie that is able to blend together elements of mystery, with a level of gore and enough brutal sequences that wouldn't be out of place in a traditional slasher flick. A movie that ushered in the new millennium styles of German horror, Anatomy's creepy and unnerving storyline takes a lot of its influence from real world historical events which just help to sell the scares to a much deeper level.