ANATOMY

A horror box-office smash in its native Germany (selling more tickets than “Scream”), ANATOMY dissects the escalating fears and frenzy of Paula, a young medical student enrolled in an elite summer course open to only the best and the brightest at the University of Heidelberg. In theses courses the instructors utilize life-size models of sectioned human bodies, which look so diquietingly real that one would almost swear that their fleshless eyes are alive and staring right at you. Paula meets a strapping young man in perfect health, but her mind is engrossed in her studies, not extracurricular fun. She's startled when next she recognizes him, as a specimen cadaver ready to be cut apart in the operating theater – a strong clue that all is not well in the hallowed institution, where one of the professors may be the clandestined leader of the Anti-Hippocrats, a fascistic secret society of conspirators who pervert the healing arts for their own evil purposes. Soon her friends and colleagues begin disappearing, and Paula can guess how. And that she is the next “patient.” Beware the scrubroom, the bright sanitorium and, most of all, the surgical table. Because the doctors are in, diagnosis: murder. (In German with English subtitles)