THE BRUTE

A mysterious creature was spotted by children in the waters of Lake Neusiedl in the 1970s. For years, local rumours linked it to strange accidents and unexplained events – until the story was forgotten. Half a century later, two filmmakers pick up the trail and find a woman who claims to have filmed the creature – and who, surprisingly, still lives with it today. But the monster isn’t cooperative at all: it’s far from terrifying, instead highly phlegmatic, and it refuses to speak. The documentary collapses. And the horror film they try to make instead slowly turns into something else.