Keri Russell is a reasonably known actress with good movies in her filmography. With this expectation, many viewers watch this turkey expecting a great or at least a good film. However the overrated "Rohtenburg", a.k.a. "Grimm Love", is awful and absolutely unpleasant and boring. It is indeed the storyline "American student travels to Germany for her graduation and becomes obsessed with the story of a homosexual cannibal" stuffed with gruesome scenes to complete 87 minutes running time. The scariest part of this film is to find that there are people that apparently liked it. My vote is one (awful).

Title (Brazil): "O Cannibal" ("The Cannibal")

American student Katie Armstrong (Keri Russell) is researching cannibal killer Oliver Hartwin (Thomas Kretschmann) and his willing victim Oliver Grombeck (Thomas Huber).

Why Keri Russell is in this is beyond me. I don't mean that a good actress shouldn't deal with this subject matter. I'm talking about the fact that the character puts distance between the audience and the cannibalism. She serves no purpose other than be a buffer from the action. And I call it action in the loosest of terms. This is one boring movie.

This is an insanely boring movie. The only good scene is when Oliver takes out a male prostitute. Even the cannibalism scenes are boring. It's a horrific subject matter. But this is far from a horror movie. Watching this will put you asleep.

When I read on the box, "based on a true story" I really don't know what that means anymore as so many of these films include the paranormal or aliens. This tale is different and is close to being a documentary with heavy annoying narration throughout. In a nutshell the horror story is about a gay male German cannibal who advertises on the Internet for victims...and gets them.

Keri Russell plays Kate Russel, an American student in Germany obsessed with the pyschological aspect of the case that she decides to write about it for her thesis. The story is told as a flashback leading up to the point where she gets the forbidden tape of the actual killing and eating.

As a docu-drama it is mildly interesting, but slow and not entertaining. As a horror film, don't bother. The low key first person narration negates any horror aspect of the film and turns a cannibal film into something boring.

one f-bomb, rear male nudity, men kissing, action centers around a severed male organ being eaten. We did learn that if you take a bottle of sleeping pills with a bottle of cough syrup, chase it down with a beer you can sleep through anything.