Surface-diving you through Amsterdam, the serial killer takes us through randomly executed hits. While the classic Dutch film loses on humour with words like Goat-Fucker and Rusk-Dick after translation, it keeps you tuned with all the 8 killings. Eric Vissner as detective Eric Visser doesn't do much in the film except romance the beautiful Monique Van de Ven without caring less about her young daughter. Highlight of the film is the hero's jaw-line, repeated gripping villain's breathing and the speedboat chase during the climax. Must-watch if you into world cinema and classics only.

This movie was a big surprise to me. I expected only some possibly passable time-waster that might be a giallo or a secret agent film. And with subtitles in English it barely seemed worth my time. But this film is a remarkable chase film with stunts worthy of a bigger budget film. The boat chase is truly remarkable and one wonders how the director, writer, producer, music composer Dick Maas was able to accomplish all this working outside of Hollywood. The film screens like a giallo and secret agent mixture with a touch of horror thrown in at the end. The shock scenes are effectively produced for maximum effect and the story line, while fairly simple, adds up nicely at the end. The atmospheric scenes in the sewers of Amsterdam are extremely well handled. The film is long but doesn't feel so because it is so well paced. The leading lady, who looks like Senta Berger's twin sister, and the leading man, although unknown to film audiences over here do a creditable job. The film has a great deal of energy and is a real edge of your seat thriller. Hats off to the creator of this. I am going now to find out what else of his I might be able to see.

A mysterious serial killer is stalking the canals of Amsterdam. He wears a black wetsuit and diving mask, and he kills with a harpoon. As the body count rises, detective Eric Visser (Stapel) is assigned to catch him. It's not going to be easy, as this particular baddie is extremely clever and crafty. Soon, the full force of Amsterdam's police are chasing down the man terrifying their beloved city. Visser must not only catch the killer, but also protect his young daughter Anneke (Dagelet) and her friend Willy (Bakker), not to mention girlfriend Laura (van de Ven of Stunt Rock, 1980 fame). Can he do it? Amsterdamned, as you might be able to surmise from its great title, is an extremely enjoyable movie with a dark sense of humor. It takes Dutch culture, everything from its red light district, to Rembrandt paintings, to Amstel beer and of course its famous canals and architecture, and injects a malevolent, murdering presence into it. That, and the idea that a killer can use the canals to kill and escape, is excellent, original and crowd-pleasing. The whole venture has a great vibe and thus is a winner.Huub Stapel as Visser is your typical quirky, unshaven cop who gets results. To our eyes he resembles a Dutch Jean Reno, or perhaps a Dutch Cobra (AKA Marion Cobretti). He also has a cool jacket and there are other wonderful 80's fashions on display as well. Writer/director Dick Maas not only uses the city of Amsterdam to its full effect, but he also loads the movie up with inventive moments and unique camera angles. This keeps the pace of the movie on track, although at times it is hard to sustain the nearly two hour running time. And even though most of the characters dubbed their own voices, if the movie had been trimmed of a bit of fat, and subtitled instead of dubbed, we'd be looking at an ultimate classic. As it stands, it's merely great. So not a huge loss there.But we see why Maas decided to dub the movie, he was clearly going for the international (and especially the American) market. And he had every right to be successful in it, as the movie has some great chase scenes, as well as its unique concept and location. So he was able to formulate a winner, and Vestron must have agreed, as they released it on VHS here.Featuring the wonderful end-credits title song by Lois Lane, we strongly recommend Amsterdamned.For more action insanity, drop by: www.comeuppancereviews.com

Apart from the stupid title this is an exciting horror movie. The plot is somewhat bizarre though, but that's part of the excitement. Highly recommended for horror fans. This is one scary movie. The title is just so hilarious. I couldn't believe it. I saw this in the Netherlands when I was there playing chess in the 1990s. I guess it is interesting to see some horror movies which are not American. This is a very European film. To be honest, I cannot remember it very well, but there were some nice scenes in the canal. It seems like a good detective story as well as a nice horror movie. I seem to remember that the search for the strange killer is one of the most interesting aspects of the movie.