German underground horror (basically raw or extreme) director Olaf Ittenbach first came onto my radar with Premutos: The Fallen Angel. The gore was excellent but the rest really lack luster. This brings us to No Reason (2010), which was only recently released outside the festival scene). Again the gore was spectacular, and I mean almost on par with Marian Dora, spectacular. The cinematography and editing worked well with the Hellraiser meets Raw atmosphere. Irene Holzfurtner delivered an extremely strong performance. This brings us to the story, which with Ittenbach we do not expect to be there at all. Ironically there is a bit of a story and it is rather cleverly conveyed, mostly through the prologue and references to the book Holzfurtner's character is forced to read. A better script and tighter directing would have made it a really good film.
