jfarms1956 Anatomy is a movie best enjoyed by those who are between 16 and 45 who enjoy horror films, particularly those horror films with a medical/hospital theme. This is not a prime time film, but a late night or rainy afternoon film. I usually like horror films but this one lost most of its enjoyment for me because the sound track was off. It was either the sound track or the actors were not speaking English. The mouthing of the words did not match up with the speaking of the words. This pretty much destroyed the film for me. The film is rather a slow paced film, until it nears the end. Then, during the chase, the pace picks up. However, the ending has a little bit of a twist on it. Popcorn and pizza make great snacks for this low budget film. Enjoy.

Uriah43 A young med student by the name of "Paula Henning" (Franka Potente) is thrilled to learn that she has been accepted into the University of Heidelberg. Another female student by the name of "Gretchen" (Anna Loos) has also been accepted and becomes her roommate. While traveling from Munich to Heidelberg they encounter a young man named "David" (Arndt Schwering-Sohnrev) who has heart problems and passes out on the train. Paula administers CPR and manages to revive him. However, once they begin their anatomy course they find his body laid out for dissection. Thinking something is wrong Paula sends some blood and tissue samples to a friend for analysis. At any rate, rather than reveal the rest of the story, I'll just say that this is an exciting horror-mystery movie with good suspense and a couple of twists at the end. Although originally filmed in German, the version I saw was dubbed in English and may require some people to make allowances. Even so, I found it to be quite enjoyable. I also liked the performances of Franka Potente, Anna Loos and Sebastian Blomberg (who played the role of Paula's boyfriend, "Caspar"). As a side note, it won the "Audience Award" for "German Film of the Year" at the German Film Awards. And while that's certainly not as impressive as an Academy Award, it is a good indicator that this could be a film that fans of horror or mystery might find interesting.

Raul Faust From the get go I could imagine this would be a sick movie-- thanks to Brazilian's advertising and IMDb's reviewers. The film begins quickly and in a matter of minutes we already have bunch of informations, which probably will be useful to the denouement of the story. Things happen soon, making the movie become interesting, entertaining and suspenseful. One thing I have to mention is the phrase one doctor said in a lesson: "We live in the age of psychological disease", or something like that. In fact, he tried to show that nowadays many diseases come from our minds, and it is interesting to notice that a 2000's German movie says something very current, even in my society. Anytime I have a health problem my parents say "it's from your mind, you don't have anything". Anti- Hippocratic Society is very creative, delivering an original story with a good development, as well as revealing good unknown actors. The end is a classic cat-and-mouse thing, but doesn't spoil the movie's quality. Give it a chance, whether you like medicine or not.

BA_Harrison Talented anatomy student Paula (Franka Potente) is delighted when she wins a place at a top medical school in Heidelberg, but is shocked to discover that the esteemed establishment is home to a secret society, The Anti-Hippocrates Lodge, who dissect live human subjects in order to advance medical science.Although German horror flick Anatomie occasionally strays a little too far into clichéd American scary movie territory for its own good, for the most part it is a refreshingly original effort that delivers a wonderfully sinister premise, plenty of suspense, a macabre atmosphere, stylish direction from Stefan Ruzowitsky, a morbid sense of humour, and solid performances from the largely unknown cast (only Potente has achieved much success outside of her home country).Despite the film's extremely gruesome subject matter, the level of gore is kept surprisingly low; plenty of nasty stuff happens to the characters, but careful framing and editing keeps it from being overly explicit. What gore there is, though, is very well handled (there's a great scene in which a victim stares down at his hand to find that parts of it have been stripped of skin and flesh to expose muscle and bone).One of the best things about this film are the dissected plastinated corpses on display in the university's gallery which were inspired by the work of creepy German doctor Gunther von Hagens, best known in the UK for performing a live televised autopsy on Channel 4. Not the 'real McCoy', but rather amazingly accurate plastic replicas created specifically for the film, they are quite fascinating—stunningly detailed, grotesquely surreal works of art.Also pretty damn eye-catching are the impressive curves of actress Anna Loos, who plays blonde nymphomaniac/brainiac Gretchen; unfortunately, despite playing a total slut, she never strips down past her undies, which is a crying shame. Had Loos gone the whole hog for the sake of her art, I'd have possibly given this an 8/10; as it stands, it gets a still very admirable 7/10.Oh, and if you enjoy this film, I also recommend Pathology (2008), which explores similar themes (and is much gorier).