A bloody car crash, undead doppelgängers, a grand feast at a Styrian pub, and a group of starving Syrians at death’s door… Thanks to such bizarre scenes, directing duo Kelly Copper and Pavol Liška have succeeded in transforming Elfriede Jelinek’s magnum opus into an over-the-top, silent 8 mm horror movie that ably combines the mysterious with the grotesque. Die Kinder der Toten is a highly topical and reflective satire of contemporary Austrian society that uses archaic but successfully updated stylistic tools, ruthless irony, and a jarring soundtrack to lodge itself in the mind and not let go.