Michael Habeck Movies

A group of students about to graduate from high school find they may never get a chance to use all they learned in algebra class when a violent lunatic arrives on the scene in this horror-thriller. It's the last day of high school and to celebrate, a group of seniors have assembled for a big end-of-the-year dance being held in the auditorium. Some of the students are having fun at the party, while others are rigging booby-traps and setting up pranks to surprise the teachers, but in time they discover the festivities have attracted an uninvited guest. A multiple murderer and sexual deviant has escaped for a nearby mental institution, and he's arrived at the school with rape and murder on his mind. After the escapee has trapped the students in the school, he begins picking them off one by one as the kids try to find a way to trap the killer before he can claim more victims. Produced in Germany (where it was released as Schrei -- denn ich werde dich töten), School's Out was imported to America by the editors of noted horror film magazine Fangoria, and dubbed into English. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

This animated feature film, based on a successful German novel, was made for adult audiences and feature graphic depictions of feline sex and violence. " Felidae" is the Latin word for cats. Francis is a suave cat who investigates murders. A series of female cat murders leads him to uncover a plot. The plot centers around the forced breeding of superior cats as a means to take control of the world. The cats masterminding the plot have every high-tech device at their disposal. Francis encounters explicit brutality reminiscent of a not too distant German past. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

Adapted from Umberto Eco's best-selling novel, director Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose is a 14th century murder-mystery thriller starring Sean Connery as a Sherlock Holmes-esque Franciscan monk called William of Baskerville. When a murder occurs at a secluded Benedictine Abbey, William is called in to investigate. As he and his apprentice, Adson von Melk (Christian Slater), delve deeper and deeper into the case, more dead bodies begin to turn up. Eventually, Bernardo Gui, an inquisitor played by F. Murray Abraham gets involved, but he may not have the best intentions. Sean Connery's performance earned him the award for Best Actor at the 1988 British Academy Awards. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi

In Mitgift Senta Berger plays a woman who marries handsome or rich men and murders them when she grows weary of them. She poisons her current husband with the help of her lover, Edgar (Mario Adorf). Now married to her, Edgar understands what his fate is to be, and, seeing that she is already bored with him, he attempts to beat her to the punch. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi