About

This genre spits in the face of laws, norms, and social acceptance. All while pouring on the blood.

Ever since I was a young little hellion of a child, I always loved horror and monsters. Halloween was my favorite holiday, I wanted to be a vampire when I grew up, and my favorite episode of any cartoon was that one where they do something ghost-related.

As I grew up, my tastes changed a bit. I still liked monsters, but not as much. My new favorite type of horror was the kind that involved things that could really happen. Things like mentally ill people kidnapping and killing unsuspecting teens. I got into movies like the Saw and Hostel serieses, but like most people, I didn’t think the horror genre had much to offer. Not that I was one to romanticize the past, like so many horror fans do. Let’s face it, Psycho was good at best, and the original Nosferatu was boring as shit. So while I still loved all things scary, I didn’t care much for horror movies.

Then one day I stumbled across a French movie called Inside (À l'intérieur). This movie was so incredible, I was seriously shocked that directors like this existed. I then found out that Inside was part of a new movement of film called “New French Extremity.” The genre is known for, but not limited to, being really violent and intense, maintaining a good level of tension throughout the story. I looked up other movies, mostly French but also other European, that were considered to be influenced by this new wave of hellish horror. I found masterpieces like High Tension, Martyrs, Eden Lake, The Ordeal, The Experiment, and A Serbian Film. There were even some underground America films that have been associated with this label, such as The Woman and Deadgirl. I loved all of these films, and as I was developing this new appreciation for horror and the glorious continent of Europe, my friends and I were getting into making videos for Youtube. It was mostly comedy, which we still do, but I decided I also wanted to do horror in the vein of what’s going on in Europe now. I figured we’ll have our collective Youtube channel for comedy, and I’ll have my own channel for horror. I came up with the film company name Stein und Stahl Produktionen, which means “Stone and Steel Productions.” I figured it’s a good reference to the type of hard, cold, unflinching horror I’d be making. Plus anything sounds more badass in German. And there’s also a reference there to two of my favorite bands, Rammstein and Stahlhammer. Yes, I’m that much of a dork.

So originally, that was the point of Stein und Stahl. I wasn’t going to change the world, I was simply going to create some extreme films with copious amounts of blood and torture that would make Satan proud. But then something else happened. I came across an interesting little genre of Israeli fiction known as “Stalags.” Apparently, back when modern Israel was a very young nation, and the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann was still going on, some Jewish artists decided to sexualize the Nazis via a new type of men’s magazine. In the Stalags stories, concentration camps were guarded by sexy Nordic dominatrix-type Nazi ladies. Get out of line with them, and these Aryan amazons will sadistically beat you like the pathetic little worm you are! Und sie werden es für den Führer tun!!

That’s right, folks. The very first Nazi fetishists to sexualize the Nazis in art were Israeli Jews. How fucken awersome is that? Here’s the downside. As badass as these authors were, they went about doing this in a very cowardly way. First, the victims of these stories were hardly ever Jewish. They were virtually always American or British prisoners of war. That right there really takes away so much. Getting off on a Nazi whipping a prisoner of war is taboo, but a Nazi whipping a Jew? That’s a whole different level of taboo. Hell, even a consensual beating or sexy time between a Nazi and Jew would be awesomely high levels of tabooness. I’m a sucker for taboo things, does it show?

So that’s one thing they did wrong. The second thing was at the end of these stories, the American or British prisoner would usually kill their Aryan tormentors and escape. Weak. It’s painfully obvious that the only reason these stories ended this way is so then the authors can go, “See, we’re not insensitive. The Nazis die at the end!” Yeah, the entire story revolves around Nazi bitches whipping, humiliating, and sometimes even raping their slaves, so the Jewish man reading it can jerk off, but it’s not disrespectful because the Nazi dies at the end. And the slaves are gentiles. Like I said, weak.

It was at this point I realized that Nazis are just never used the right way in art. How is it that now, seventy years after WWII, there isn’t a plethora of movies with sex between Nazi Doms and their Jewish subs? There’s plenty of movies with Nazi Occultism, but they always play it safe. The Nazis are always the antagonists, always pure evil, and almost always lose. Where is the movie about Heinrich Himmler and Karl Wiligut finding the Holy Grail and using it to defeat the Red army? Where’s the movie where, due to a zombie outbreak, Adolf Hitler and Anne Frank team up to blast away the walking dead?

Obviously, people are afraid to make these movies because of all the criticism they would get. It’s understandable, but it sucks.

This got me thinking about taboo things as a whole. Sex and violence simply aren’t that taboo anymore. The new taboo subject that libertine artists should go for is Nazism. Not only that, but certain sexual deviances should also be explored. I’m looking at you, incest. Religion also still has a lot of tabooness. Making fun of Christians for their conservativism is fine, but it’s still pretty taboo to really explain why Christianity is a religion for self-loathing pussies who need to lie to themselves. The rules on what’s okay are even stricter for Judaism. And the rules on making fun of liberals are up there too.

So after thinking all of this over, I decided Stein und Stahl was going to produce its own genre of horror. And I christened that genre “Lawless Murder-Art.” The type of movies I want to make are highly violent, and attack social norms that haven’t been attacked quite as much as they should be. That’s what the “Lawless” references. That, and my first name, which literally means “without law.” See? I was born to do this!