Filmmaker
Rudolf B. is an award winning filmmaker
WRITER
Rudolf B. is a multiple optioned and produced screenwriter and open for writing commissions.
FILM AWARDS
RudolfB. has over a dozen international film awards.
FILM FESTIVALS
Rudolf B's films have screened at esteemed international film festivals.
our experience
18 Years of Innovation
From world's first fully digital film to shooting in remote places.
Dark Hearts engaged me right from the very start, through to the taught end, where some nice pacing from the South African director delivered its finale in style.
"Watching anyone’s first movie, or, in this case, first narrative, can be a bit of a gamble, with Rudolf Buitendach’s thriller Dark Hearts no exception, and while I can say with all honesty I didn’t have high hopes for this movie, I was glad to be proven very wrong. Dark Hearts engaged me right from the very start, through to the taught end, where some nice pacing from the South African director delivered its finale in style. Dark Hearts isn’t an easy film to pin down to allow me to offer other examples for comparison, but, suffice to say it’s bloodthirsty and sexy, with a lot of winning elements that wouldn’t appear amiss in anything derived from that famous Bram Stoker novel."
"Hex; it’s brief and to the point, and always great to look at; and while never truly scary does manage to raise the hairs on the back of the neck a few times."
"Hex; it’s brief and to the point, and always great to look at; and while never truly scary does manage to raise the hairs on the back of the neck a few times."
Buitendach has created a film that is confidently strange and uncannny, without ever being forced.
Buitendach's follow-up to the 2017 award-winner SELLING ISOBEL is a lithe and sensuous tale of lust and possession, shot on location in Cambodia and consciously tapping into some of the folk mythology of that country. What could have very easily been another fish-out-of-water horror film, is actually at pains to develop an unusual relationship at the core of the film, namely the interdependence of Amber and Ben, a relationship which is frequently reconfigured throughout the film.
I found this movie much more terrifying and scary than traditional horror films.
Even at almost two hours, this film is nowhere near dull or slow. It gets right to the dark and twisted center of the topic at hand. Frida Farrell gives us excellence all the way around. I found this movie much more terrifying and scary than traditional horror films. I see this kind of thing on the true crime documentary shows I watch all the time. This REALLY DOES HAPPEN. And It can happen to anyone. THAT is what makes it so horrifying to watch. Watching this made me feel more horror, terror and EMPATHY than almost any ACTUAL horror flick I’ve seen to date.
