The Huntress of Auschwitz (2022) (Review)

The Huntress of Auschwitz (2022) The Auschwitz Stalker 😉Synopsis: A young american woman travels to Europe to track down the Nazi guard responsible for the murder of her great-grandparents.

Another film I really wanted to see, even though it looked like complete rubbish.
Another film that, I confirm, is relatively bad, but I’m not going to give it the worst rating.
Yet another cover image that’s quite distorted… if not completely!
Everything about it is wrong: the heroine’s outfit, the blood on her, the bag over the prisoner’s head, the room in which the torture takes place. What’s more, she doesn’t pull out a single knife in the entire film, and there’s no Nazi flag against the wall… even if, in the end, it’s all pictorial.

This film has been categorized under Horror, Thriller and War.

So… on the horror side, there are no unbearable scenes, no gore. The torture scenes are pretty mild compared to anything we’ve seen elsewhere. Very little pain, but rather dialogue. This gives the film a slightly intelligent edge.

On the Thriller side… wait… let me think…
No, I don’t see it!

And as for the War, it’s the basic story… but we don’t see any soldiers running, shooting, taking cover…
So: no, no and no!

We immediately fall for the actress playing the lead role. But there are plenty of moments when you can’t see her face very well, because of the shadow on it. As a result, we’re less able to judge her talent as an actress.
It’s supposed to add a touch of mystery, but it fails. All the more so as the film has serious lighting problems (dark and lit in the next moment). There were some false connections: when the elderly woman is looking at the moon, in the next shot she’s drinking her drink. In short!

Lowri Watts-Joyce is a great actress, and she must be the fetish of the director, Richard John Taylor, given that they made two films together in the same year. It seems to me that in both films, the actress showers and it’s almost the same shots. Makes you wonder if he used the same scene in both. In fact, I’m going to see this other film now… just for the review and to see if both are interesting in the first place, but fail in the end.

Yes, the pacing is also very bad. And the actors speak very slowly, very theatrically. It’s like some kind of horror film for learning English. What’s more, there’s a lot of repetition of dialogue. That way, you’re sure not to miss anything.

I had a hard time figuring out where this film and its actors came from. The director must be American, the film must be set in Scotland. Maybe Lowri is from Eastern Europe? Hard to find info. This actress is “known” for The Krays: Dead Man Walking (2018), Muse (2019) and this film. But she doesn’t have a Wikipedia page yet!
So… known for whom exactly?

I found this review interesting: “Treated almost in allegorical form, this film about the hunt for a (last?) Nazi doesn’t convince. Very talkative, it’s filmed theater. What does it feel like? Not much, insofar as the theme is approached in a rather intellectual way, with a screenplay overly constructed for the sake of demonstration.”

My Rating