Gore & Splatter
Many horror/slasher movies have gore (e.g. Friday the 13th) but the movies listed here have gleefully excessive amounts of it. In other words, gore deserves top billing in these movies and is one of the first things you think of when these movies are mentioned. See also the many splatter/gore film-makers in the Table of Contents as well as the Shockumentaries.
A 20 minute splatstick worthy of Peter Jackson. The only survivor of a massacre wakes up in a hospital and slowly remembers the events where a mysterious man with a bag over his head tore apart two dozen street youth. Bad but entertaining over-the-top acting, and non-stop creative comedic splatter that Jackson would be proud of, including opening an umbrella inside of a man, two axes to the butt and shoving a man's head through another man's torso.
A group of youngsters on their way to a wedding get caught in a hick town with a dark supernatural secret that is taking over live and dead people, making them go on a killing rampage. The splatter flies freely while the local musician sings ditties and the city folk find themselves dancing with the local manure-loving characters in more ways than one. While this plot sounds very unoriginal and the characters and humor aren't so charming, what makes this fun is the love of the splatter-comedy genre by everyone involved, the good acting, the good splatter, a slew of quirky characters, and the winning goofiness of the whole thing. In short, a somewhat mediocre movie, but I'm glad someone still knows how to make an entertaining splatter movie without resorting to Hollywood cliches or dumb gore.
A disgusting splatstick comedy that gets points for being entertaining rather than witty and goes for over-the-top bad-taste, topping Peter Jackson in gruesomeness but not in creativity. A tabloid camera crew complete with bitchy reporter and UFO fanatic visit a Welsh farm where aliens were reported to have landed, and soon find wild, inbred Welshmen battling it out with vicious Aliens who are into all the good ol' Alien social standards of impregnation, anal probing and cattle mutiliation (all filmed with over-the-top gore). A lame start leads to a very entertaining gory romp where annoying characters are gleefully killed off one by one. Features a very entertaining Welsh farmer with a bad eye and a classic scene with a combine harvester.
A cult blend of intense horror, campy acting and sequences, impressively energetic and engaging camera-work, and lots of gore. A group of youngsters vacation in a deserted cabin and find true unstoppable evil linked to a Book of the Dead that possesses them and then sets off an anarchical bloodbath. Features buckets of blood and makeup, and violent, horny trees. Alternates between intense horror and quirky entertainment.
This revisitation of the story in the first Evil Dead is actually a comedy/splatter movie with the incredible energetic style of Raimi and over-the-top gore. Watch a man battle it out with his own severed hand then carve up the dead with a chainsaw. See his descent into madness until he gets friendly with a haunted lampshade. Cult entertainment.
A severely schizophrenic movie directed in two parts by two directors. The first is Tarantino with his usual violent bad-ass characters and quirky dialog, then we take an erotic break with Hayek's most sizzling dance and suddenly everything erupts into splatter madness with body parts flying and campy battles with bloody vampires. Fun but unfocused.
Verhoeven's brutal sci-fi masterpiece is unrelenting in its energy, violence, gore and social satire. The clashing of picture perfect youths warring against massive, brutal alien bugs under fascist like commanders and governments result in breathtaking effects, endless bloody violence and unrelenting tension as well as Verhoeven tinged soap drama. Incredibly good.
Carpenter's remake is a superb classic, very memorable for the amazing gore effects that still look horrifyingly real today. A group of scientists on Antarctica discover an alien life form that takes over animal and human bodies (as in phsyically controlling body parts and intestines and mutating them freely). Intense paranoia, isolation and horror ensue.
A labor of love by a pair of new directors. The ingredients are mostly unoriginal but the way it all comes together as a mix of zombie movie, comedy, splatter, sci-fi and John Woo gunplay parody are entertaining to say the least. There are scores of homages (or ripoffs) to Romero, Raimi, Jackson, and a complex plot that gives the zombie genre a very interesting twist a la Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Flawed due to annoying and dumb characters but this ambitious genre-salad, like Lifeforce, will either confuse and bore you, or entertain your socks off.
Aftermath
See Extreme Movies.
Rare Japanese splatter short about scientists conducting a special experiment and a hooded mutant monster that comes after them. The gore is extreme and realistic and includes eye gouging, test tube stabbings and disembowelings.
A tribute to H.G. Lewis's Blood Feast featuring more Egyptian madness and campy splatter. The nephews of a horny disembodied brain gather all the required slutty female body parts and incantations to bring life to the five million year old goddess Shitaar. This they do under the guise of a vegetarian diner while wrestling with Jimmy Hitler, a local wrestling champion. The gore is over the top but not as gooey as the original, and the silly camp does bear a similarity to the charm of H.G. Lewis although it has a cheesy taste of its own. Dumb splatter fun wrapped in one of the happiest gore movies ever made.
Mixing the strange atmosphere of a Fulci gore movie and the way-over-the-top German nasty splatter effects, this horror movie could have been a contender for one of the most gruesome movies ever if not for the weak acting and lack of a cohesive plot. A husband with a fatal bone disease and his wife turn to their friend to come up with a cure that involves corpses. After a failed first attempt that causes some nasty maggots and blood to spew out of every body orifice, they try again with a fresher corpse. Things get out of hand as somehow the dead come to life and go on a gory rampage. The climax surpasses even Schnaas with every nasty gore effect imaginable involving crushing, ripping, disemboweling, decapitation, etc. This one is gruesome, atmospheric and features superb special effects and makeup, but is otherwise lacking.
A cheesy Irish teenage zombie comedy with gore. Boy commits sucide, mother finds voodoo book, mother re-animates her son, son gets taste for human flesh, infection spreads, massacre ensues. The comedy is weak, the gore is pretty good, the movie is entertaining while it's on but forgettable soon after.
Bread and Circus
See Extreme Movies.
Silly splatter comedy about a convent inhabited by demons. Teenagers visit the deserted place where a massacre had taken place decades before and the heads start rolling. The characters are hit and miss (the best one, a goth girl, gets killed too fast), the gore is plentiful but somewhat unimaginative, the comedy varies from silly to amusing, the direction and music however tries too hard to be hip. A party gore movie.
A vampire gore movie made by teenagers with no budget. A teenager witnesses a massacre by vampires and becomes a vampire killer with friends. The rest of the movie involves lots of chasing, screaming, fighting and gore. The good is that the over-the-top gore effects are moderately entertaining and some scenes are effective, the bad is that they are all teenagers that take themselves too seriously, the lighting has severe technical difficulties, and the plot and characters are non-existant. Barely of interest.
A great, gory, low-budget b-movie. A meteor lands on earth, releasing a spawn of rapidly growing monsters with lots of teeth. As more and more people get chomped, a group of teenagers and one resourceful kid who watched too many horror movies, battle it out with the multiplying creatures. Can the kid get control of the situation before his friends heads and limbs are bitten off, and more of his family's faces are chewed off? Campy bloody fun and blessedly free of annoying cliches, the only fatal flaw being the mostly dull characters.
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie in an Irish landscape with a dose of Peter Jackson. A woman and her boyfriend get caught in the country where a mad cow disease has taken a zombifying turn. She encounters a couple of local characters who join her for an hour of running, fighting and lots of decapitations. A shovel gets several good splatter workouts and the country setting is nice, but this one is too unrealistically gory to be taken seriously, not funny enough to be splatstick, and the main characters are dull.
Yet another modern zombie movie with infected, raging, fast-moving zombies, this time set in a maximum security prison. This would have been a good idea for an action-packed brutal gore-fest if not for the bad writing and acting. Even the gore, although prevalent, is not creative and sticks to lots of splattered brains and faces, and some gut-munching. The development of events is nothing short of idiotic (an infected man is jailed in prison fast and allowed to mingle), and all the actors are unsympathetic at best, or terrible at worst. The constant action and energy keeps you watching but it still feels like a waste of time.
Several people are invited into a mysterious cinema by mysterious people where some are turned into zombie-like demons who in turn attack the rest of the crowd. Mayhem creeps in when they find out they are blockaded in the cinema and lots of gore ensues. Bad acting is the fatal flaw, but it makes for a moderately entertaining popcorn gore movie.
From the writer of Hanzo, Crying Freeman, Lone Wolf, and Lady Snowblood series, comes this lesser known over-the-top action Chambara. The plot (which was later copied in Azumi) is about a group of children trained as 'demons', mysterious super-assassins who keep the peace by wiping out conspiracies and corrupt powerful people. Their training is hell, most of them not surviving the tests which include espionage, autopsies and detached sex. The rest of the movie involves a dangerous mission to find a secret horde of weapons and traitors, led by a cunning man who plays an intense battle of wits with the demons. This is all very entertaining and would be extremely good if not for the over-the-top cartoonish and exploitative treatment, taking the popular geysers of blood and chopped limbs of the time to new heights.
Die You Zombie Bastards!
See Extreme Movies.
Heavily influenced by Argento and using cinematic homages (or rip-offs) to Fulci and Raimi, this Japanese horror movie starts as a brutal and gory slasher and ends as a bizarre and nonsensical supernatural gore flick. A female TV crew is sent a tape of a brutal killing with directions on how to get to an abandoned building ...and curiosity killed the cat. Features skewering, eye-gouging, slashing, death traps, etc.
Swedish parody on the splatter and horror genres, which, in one way, means it's a spoof on a spoof. Ed is a sensitive and moral editor who is transferred to the 'gore and splatter' division where the multi-million dollar franchise 'Loose Limbs' needs editing to keep the European censors happy. After some late night repetitive cutting, Ed loses it and starts hallucinating then goes psychotic. Features scores of little homages to horror movies. Somewhat entertaining, but there are two flaws: Even in its unrated edition, the splatter is rare and sporadic and feels like some gore was cut, and the comedy tends to get too crudely obvious. Ironically, this movie was also released in a censored version.
A 10 minute short supposedly for educating forklift workers on safety at work, but actually a hilarious splatterfest in the vein of Peter Jackson. Men get sliced in half, chainsawed, forklifted, etc.
Home-made Spanish gore-porn. A very silly mad doctor kidnaps a man and tries out his nerve-numbing concoction on him, proving its effectiveness by cutting off several random limbs, cutting into his intestines and shooting him until he finally dies without feeling a thing. A side-effect of extreme lust inspires the doctor to try different experiments involving sex with 3 females. This new experiment chaotically mixes x-rated sex, c-grade gore and lowest level camp.
A comedic entry in the Guinea Pig series that tells the tale of a loser at work who stays at home for a few days getting even more depressed over the fact that nobody from work is calling him. He gets so bored, he cuts his own wrist and finds out he cannot die. In a curiosity panic, he starts cutting off his own limbs, cutting his neck, then invites his friend over and disembowels himself, throwing his entrails at the horrified friend while making silly jokes. A funny splatter comedy.
A painter mourning the loss of his wife finds a diseased mermaid in a sewer where his childhood dreams of innocence and beauty have been smashed. He takes her up into his house to paint her and take care of her. Her extremely nasty disease spreads however, covering her whole body with boils and constantly spurting blood, multi-colored pus, worms, maggots and intestines. A surprising mix of poetic symbolism, tragic drama, extreme gore, and stomach-churning, revolting special effects. An experience not to be taken anywhere near meal-times.
Clive Barker's tale of a man who solves a puzzle into hell and discovers pleasure in extreme pain and torture is gruesome, original and effective, but he doesn't seem to have thought the plot and characters through. As the puzzle opens, hooks and chains tear off skin and flesh inconsistently, and mutilated humans from hell called Cenobites come over for either a chat, or instant torture. The man's half brother and ex-lover bring his remains back to life with blood and the Cenobites do not like being cheated out of their victims...
This slightly more interesting sequel is merely an excuse for gory special effects, very imaginative gruesome torture devices and lots of butchering. A doctor obsessed with unlocking the mystery of death and hell comes across the characters (both dead and alive), from the previous outing and his gruesome awakening threatens to overcome even the Cenobites. Lots of bizarre but tedious chases down the corridors of hell, an evil that spills over onto Earth, and the same incoherent plot all serve as a backdrop for empty gore and nastiness.
German zombie splatter featuring gangsters with guns (which made me think it was a Timo Rose movie). Some criminals decide to start a rave party in a warehouse (huh?) which turns out to be the location of a scientific experiment gone wrong. Before you know it, everyone turns to porridge spewing zombies and the disease spreads. The gangsters team up with scientists and go on a gory killing spree for the rest of the movie, tearing apart zombies in various locations as they spread. Amateurish and dumb, but entertaining thanks to its non-stop violence and way over-the-top splatter as the zombies and fighters slice, rip, disembowel, decapitate, eat and tear-apart each other with glee.
A widowed, pregnant woman is stalked in her home by a psychotic woman who seems to have a special interest in her baby. Carnage ensues as the police, family and co-workers get involved. And that's putting it mildly. Whereas Braindead may be the goriest movie ever made in the comical over-the-top sense, this is probably the goriest realistic horror movie ever made. It doesn't linger or zoom-in on the carnage, but the slashing is unrelentingly nasty and endless, featuring extremely bloody slashings and stabbings with scissors, pieces of glass, knitting needles, guns, other sharp objects. The tension and horror is very high and the twist ending is actually good, but the flaws here include the endless gore bordering on the ridiculous when the should-be-dead come back to life, the lack of plot, the cliche of an invincible slasher that somehow always gets the better of much stronger people, and some very badly trained cops. The scary thing is that there are really women out there in the news with a similar psychotic obsession.
A by-the-numbers slasher movie, but in its uncut version, features a few scattered over-the-top gory deaths. The plot is generic (mysterious murderer stalks young people and chops them up one by one) but the location is a supermarket, the acting is good, and the use of inventive camera angles make this a must-see for slasher fans. The most infamous gore scenes involve a hydraulic press and an electric saw to the head.
Troma-style gore, boobs and body fluids comedy about a Janitor who is humiliated or ignored by everyone and goes on a killing spree. The acting is campy, the splatter is plentiful with dismemberments galore, there is crude humor with a prostitute who gives a new meaning to giving head, and there are dozens of silly horror movie references. As far as campy b-movie trash is concerned, this is amongst the best.
Entertaining Greek zombie splatter movie with modern fast-moving zombies. The story is a simple, uninspired zombie apocalypse survival plot, with a clashing mix of more realistic survival action-drama, and over-the-top, silly Dusk 'til Dawn splatstick complete with kung-fu chicks and fists through the chest. These approaches undermine each other, the music is annoying techno, but the wild, varied gore effects are quite good and zombie movies are always entertaining to some extent.
Early British/Spanish/Italian zombie movie that jumped out of a grave right after Night of the Living Dead. A long-haired antique dealer gets his motorcycle run over by a whiny woman, their lives tied together for the next few days as he commandeers her car and drives to the country. A local ultrasound machine is having strange side-effects as dead people come back to life and go on a killing rampage while the cops blame it all on the poor antique dealer. There is relatively little gore but it is infamous for taking the first gruesome steps before Dawn of the Dead and features a few nasty scenes of breast and gut ripping. Interesting entertaining effort but flawed by a hollow dubbing job and numerous illogical plot devices just to give the director the scenes he needs.
The second in a series of six classic Japanese cartoonish Samurai violent movies based on a manga, and the most gory and over-the-top of the lot. Lone Wolf is an ex-Shogunate, Samurai assassin that chose the road to hell after being double-crossed by a powerful clan. In this road to hell, he wanders the country, offering his superb swordsmanship for hire and pushing his little boy around in a cart while fending off attackers and ninjas, usually sent by his nemesis. Both him and his boy have given up on an ethical normal life, yet retain Samurai honor. The killings are so over-the-top, blood geysers shoot 5 meters and dismembered limbs get flung about regularly. Violently entertaining with a strong, albeit somewhat one-dimensional main character, but mostly cartoonish with the expected Samurai codes of honor twisted beyond recognition. This and other sequels feel more like a Rambo sequel with swords, fancy moves and baby-cart super-weapons rather than anything serious.
Dumb b-movie exploitation and action coupled with over-the-top gore and short bursts of creative splatter a la Peter Jackson. A Japanese high-school girl goes on a revenge rampage after her brother is killed by bullies linked to the Yakuza. She gets tortured and her arm cut off so her new friends build her a machine-gun arm. This is only one of the weapons used however, the rest include a chainsaw, flying guillotine, ninja stars, swords, deep fried oil, and bra-drills (nasty!). One minute you are watching some idiotic dialogue and a girl in a short skirt facing off three ninjas in costumes imagined by children, the next moment people are getting literally sliced into pieces with geysers of gallons of blood. People don't just get shot here, they get their heads hollowed by 200 bullets. Very entertaining, but painfully dumb and I miss the days of non-CGI splatter.
A French version of Nathan Schiff. A man in a mask hops around in the woods chopping off children's heads, people's body parts and axing them, has a fight with a man and a chainsaw, has erotic fantasies with his axe, meets a soulmate in the form of a psychotic woman who is killing people in the woods, then the movie turns into a Texas Chainsaw clone, a zombie movie and then a vampire priest movie. Contains almost no dialogue, boasts horribly cheap but gleeful splatter effects, and features a cheap ambient electronic score. Entertaining in a mad, zero-budget way.
An interesting but disappointing wannabe-Tetsuo that doesn't have its heart in the right dark place and comes off more like a twisted Teenage Mutant Turtle manga. Biomachines appear that infest humans with perfect parasites that take over their bodies and minds, linking with their emotions and pain, using memories, and mutating their organs into various mechanical weapons. But all this is merely towards some childish gladiator-like sport so most of the movie is like a splatter video game where they fight, dismember, kill and eat each other using various mutated bizarre weapons and appendages. There is a wasted love story between two infested humans and some side-plots that lead nowhere. Also, everything is explained over and over and the atmosphere is lacking. In summary: an interesting setup, entertaining gore and special effects, but disappointingly immature and undeveloped.
If Kevin Smith would have directed a tribute to Texas Chainsaw Massacre, this may have been the result. A jerk and a virginal, anal-retentive nerd go on a road trip together to the annoyance of the nerd. The banter and humor is fast, obnoxious, funny and rude. Deep in redneck country, they encounter creepy people, aggressive vehicles and grotesque hints that all is not right in these backwoods. The gruesome but funny finale contains most of the splatter, but the movie is flawed with a cliched and silly plot twist, a silly climax where the bad guys explain everything endlessly, and a silly sex scene. Moderately entertaining.
Spanish zombie comedy probably inspired by Dusk 'til Dawn and Bad Taste. When the Spanish attempt a Tarantino you know things are going to get wild. When the movie features Paul Naschy as the chief of an alien group that sodomizes men in order to change them into zombies, then things are definitely out of control. Two escaped prisoners and a woman run to a village to get money from a local crime lord, but find out everyone is either being converted to zombies that regenerate their own body parts, or are being stored as food. Gore, twisted comedy, action, and John Woo shootouts ensue. The highlight is when they try to figure out how to kill a zombie for hours with a chainsaw. Unfortunately, there are too many dumb toilet jokes, the development is unsatisfying, and last third features endless silly shootouts instead of gore.
A poor man's version of Re-Animator with bucketloads of splatter. The plot is a cliche: A doctor who lost his wife and child develops a serum to re-animate the dead, but the dead develop a hunger for flesh. As the doctor experiments and tries to improve the serum in a private clinic, things get increasingly out of hand as the masses of failed experiments take their revenge. An experimental pregnancy and a gore-loving assistant complicate matters. Some of the acting isn't bad for such a low budget, the splatter effects are way over-the-top and quite good, but the movie is dull, cliched and dumb. For example, in order to inject a serum into a dead man, they open up his whole abdomen first with scissors. Some humor would have helped as well.
Argentianian no-budget splatter comedy about aliens infecting the human race with a zombie virus that causes mayhem and buckets of gore. That's just the introduction though as most of the movie simply has three teenagers battling it out with the undead in very silly ways (splatstick, as Peter Jackson calls it). The non-stop gore is mostly of the multicolored paint and red porridge kind which detracts from the movie, but there are some good bits and the fights are inventive and tasteless fun, albeit silly. Watch it expecting a weak student movie in love with Jackson's Braindead, and you may enjoy it.
A more creative follow-up brings back the three zombie warriors, dropped by the government in a zombie infested zone with hints of strange conspiracies and alien activity. At the beginning of the movie they successfully reproduce Peter Jackson's fun splatstick atmosphere with silly over-the-top fights and gory mayhem as bodies are torn apart and decapitated in various ways, intestines used as weapons and eyeballs played with. But then it takes a bizarre turn into wrestler worship, and a cartoonishly dramatic rivalry and jealousy develops between the fighters as all hell breaks loose around them. Messy but fun.
A movie fighting to be released by a hard-working producer who obviously put in a lot of effort to gather ingredients for an entertaining horror salad. The story is unoriginal and involves yet more teenagers in trouble, this time in Ireland facing an ancient evil in the woods that likes eating gore... I mean human flesh. Famous porn stars show their organs, both inside and out, the splatter is way over-the-top including a nasty scene involving a man's intestines pulled out through his anus, and a priceless scene where a porn star's silicon confuses the cannibal creature's palate. The creature effects are disturbing and well done as well. Dumb, but delivers as a party splatter horror movie.
A silly but funny and very entertaining Swedish movie dealing with the effect of movie violence on people. A man who loves violent movies starts having hallucinations where characters from movies enter the real world and starts attacking him and his friends. He soon learns to fight back though in a glorious rampage of violence and gore. This soon becomes a name-the-movie-fest with characters and scenes popping up from Die Hard, Robocop, Alien, Clockwork Orange, a Peter Jackson splatter scene, Thriller (of course), etc. and various cameos from Swedish actors and Mel Brooks. The gore is sparse but over-the-top and fun.
Inspired by Ricky-Oh, blending horror, zombies, prison violence and the women in prison exploitation genres, one would think this would be at least highly entertaining camp. But it barely passes the mark with silly horror, borderline splatter, and not enough titillation. The fight scenes are surprisingly choreographed, bringing to mind a weak Hong-Kong flick, the gore may be uncreative but is incessant, and there's always the flying gore-munching baby a la Braindead to fall back on.
An attempt at Bad Taste by way of Mother's Day. I.e. trashy and goofy slapstick splatter. Unfortunately it gets too dumb but the silly middle is bookended by some entertaining over-the-top gore. A trio of trashy mother, inept brother and violent sister run around skinning people for their leather... I mean skin. When they run across an ex-cop with an abusive ex-wife, his temper flares and the blood flies. Features skinning, slicing, blowing apart by machine gun, disemboweling and more. Gory entertainment for when you're bored.
Another reality TV spoof that is a B-movie blend of Running Man and Scream. Volunteering contestants are sent into the zone where slashers are on the prowl and camera men follow the bloody action. Can the contestants trust each other while they run for their lives and for the chance to win millions of dollars? As with Scream, this is a self-aware movie that makes fun of slasher movie cliches while still being a slasher movie. The gore isn't prevalent but when it's there, it's over the top. Below average acting and unrealistic characters, but a somewhat entertaining B-movie nevertheless.
Goofy green goo movie about a guy who moves into an old apartment with a dark secret. After eating some 'Himalayan Yogurt' and some unnamed green liquid at the punk neighbour's house and getting seduced by the vampiric overly-friendly girl next-door, his body starts sweating goo and porridge and he gets urges to kill people. His friends worry about him but he starts liking some of the changes when his stomach bites off a muggers arm. The climax features most of the gore, with dismembering and a crawling brain.
Story of Ricky, The (Riki-Oh)
See Weird Asia.
An indie British Reservoir Dogs that ups the ante where gore is concerned but unfortunately lacks in thespian skills and storyline. Violent (teenage) criminal gangs and individuals are at each other throats over stolen drugs, with double-crossings flying in all directions. This is the whole plot, which basically is enough of an excuse to show endless bloody shootings, violence, and some surprisingly gory scenes of disembowelment, throat slashing, neck sawing and face burning. Borderline splatter.
As someone who despises practically every slasher movie out there, I was very surprised when this started off as a superb slasher. Two female friends spend the weekend in the country with the family when an intelligent, thorough and brutal psychopath starts massacring them all. The tension is exquisite and relentless a la Panic Room, the gore is gleefully excessive even featuring sex with a severed head, the acting and direction intense. But all this is undermined by yet another idiotic twist ending.
A high-budgeted revisitation and sequel many years later by Hooper himself. The result is a loss of all realism and the original disturbing, horrifying effect replaced by twisted, gory and even humorous entertainment with fancy sets full of Fellini-esque imagery. The story revolves around a relative of one of the original victims psychotically obsessed with finding and killing the murderers with his own chainsaw, and a female radio DJ who overheard a recent chainsaw murder take place and consequentially gets involved. The twisted family is still very much demented in various ways and nastily preoccupied with human slaughter, skin, bone and edible flesh.
Low-budget evil flick full of unrealized potential. The script is somewhat interesting, involving a group of people who find themselves stuck in an evil house where they are forced by the devil to make some terrible choices while they are tortured and killed in gruesome, gory ways. But the writing needed some fine-tuning and development and the acting and directing are extremely flat and dull.
A satire on Friday the 13th slasher movies featuring a sensitive slasher with a face like the Toxic Avenger who can't resist his fate to brutally tear apart teenagers' faces and carve them up. His bum of a father philosophizes about his upbringing, his teenage victims have sex and stumble on tree roots right on cue to get impaled, and the girls are terribly boring when they scream and run. Enter a blind girl who falls in love with him and tries to teach him romance and S&M. Will he live a normal life or is he doomed to kill everyone and appear in endless sequels?
Energetic garage zombie movie that manages to keep things entertaining despite its low budget. Zombies mix with a cult of religious fanatics who brainwash a passing couple with mescaline and power-tools. An insane cult leader tells girls they have been chosen to accept his seed, the devil, in painfully bad computer-effect dream sequences, plagues the latest brainwashed victim into beliefs of immortality, rulership and Armageddon, a local biker gang declares war on the cult, and zombies bite chunks out of people while being blown apart by shotguns. The splatter is over-the-top, highlights including munching of huge breasts and a fetus.
A truly dismal gore version of Little Shop of Horrors that has a guy get infected by a tumor that his mother coughed up after being healed by a preacher, only to have it produce offspring. Cody coughs up little tumors while the one inside him controls him into murdering people and feeding the flesh to the rapidly growing monsters with huge teeth. Lots of laughably bad splatter, completely flat acting, a narration that is out of an Ed Wood movie, and dubbed/looped dialog and screaming. So terrible it's funny. OK, maybe not that funny.
Rare Peter Jackson wannabe release from Australia that unfortunately relies on toilet humor, endless fart jokes, silly slapstick and actors that think they're funny instead of having real wit. The splatter is there however. A mad ex-nazi scientist experiments with regression therapy to explore a local's past lives, in one of which he is a psychotic killer cannibal. His girlfriend's mum who is wheelchair bound and has a pet tapeworm, is near-psychotic herself and their personalities clash for an over-the-top gory climax.
In its unrated version, this Hollywood piece of excrement is actually a border splatter movie thanks to Ittenbach's involvement with the special effects. Warriors from a vampire killer society team up with a sexy half-human half-vampire to do battle with a powerful vampire (Ben Kingsley of all people) and his army. Terrible acting, idiotic script, anachronisms from here to eternity, many of them having to do with modern female behaviour and slutty dress in the 18th century, extremely lame fight scenes and a director who didn't know what to do with all the splatter so he concentrated most of it in a stupid flashback scene towards the end of the movie.
I suppose this would be the result if John Waters made an homage to backwoods horror movies. Incestual, trashy, cross-dressing, ugly hillbillies in the forest prance about with dead animals, argue, play games, over-act, and kill neighbours and wanderers. That's it for the plot, the rest is over-the-top campy and trashy acting with some silly splatter and nasty genital torture. There's a scene where they literally pull apart a young boy, and a silly dinner-table scene that doesn't quite have the same effect as in Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Babes from Burbank and their boyfriends search for archeological finds by walking through the woods. The Babes find a box full of gems that turn women into man-eaters (literally), get naked a lot and fight each other for it, while others try to stop the epidemic. Cheesy body-part gore and bad special effects ensue. The beginning is definitely in the so-bad-it's-good genre, but it just keeps getting lamer and sillier until your brain focuses on drying paint instead.
Body Melt
See Extreme Movies.
A mad scientist and his hunchback assistant collect female body parts from live, pretty girls to build the perfect mate. The doctor then teaches her about affection and life but starts having difficulties keeping her around. This was made by the special effects collaborator of H.G Lewis and it obviously tries and fails to capture the cheaply entertaining camp values of Lewis' films. The stupidity level is extremely high and there isn't any camp, comedy, continuity, acting chops, or anything else of interest. There is hardly any gore but when it's there, it involves over-the-top dismemberment and is surprisingly convincing.
Cannibal
See Extreme Movies.
Banned by the over-zealous UK 'video nasty' board but actually very tame considering it's a cannibal/zombie hybrid. Soldiers bring back a rabies-like contagious disease from vietnam that compels them to cannibalize people. Lots of action and bloody biting ensue as the police force and psychiatric ward try to keep the epidemic under control. There's some flesh ripping, neck biting, and the piece-de-resistance: a huge gaping hole in a man's torso after several shotgun blasts. Dull and surprisingly tame.
Dire low-budget backwoods horror movie with cannibalism and sporadic comedy. Teenagers camp in the woods. Backwoods folk, one of them wearing a pilot's helmet, chase them around, hit on the girls and kill them. The gore is mostly lame blood splatter but after a whole hour delivers a couple of disemboweling and de-embryonifying splatter scenes.
Silly Spanish splatter comedy obviously inspired by Texas Chainsaw complete with an insane and filthy family dealing with human flesh, hammers to the head, a chainsaw, and a manic dinner scene with a girl tied to a chair. A car breaks down, a group of youngsters fall into the hands of some insane killers, various limbs are chopped off, a baby's brain is sucked through a straw, a girl tries to escape and fight back, etc etc. The gore is cheap but over-the-top, some sleaze involving rape and a nymphonaniac sister is thrown in for good measure, the acting is horrible, the comedy silly, and the characters talk on and on annoyingly. Gives a new meaning to the phrase 'a woman's place is in the kitchen'.
Early, terrible Canadian zombie movie with a couple of gleeful gore scenes. The horribly messy plot involves a group of horny teenagers who raise the dead at a cemetary as well as a mortuary and its drunk owner. The dead munch on some guts, eat some eyeballs, and give a girl some bad, bloody dreams but the movie is a messy bore.
A terribly cheap German action/horror movie with questionable claims to being a splatter movie. The plot is convoluted and involves a boy who was saved from sacrifice by a cult as a baby, a power-hungry mafia boss, an evil island, lots of military action, and a secret formula that brings back the dead. There's lots of cheesy action with guns, helicopters and grenades, a magical voodoo priest that can disappear, cheap special effects that look like they were drawn on the negative, and the splatter only makes an appearance during the last 20 minutes consisting of lots of gut-munching by zombies.
Empty and dull vampire movie bordering on the gratuitous gore but not satisfactory in that department either. A family, one pregnant girl, local drug gangs, a neighbourhood watch, and a lesbian couple clash one night and feed on each other in a rampage of violence as they all infect each other and start a feeding frenzy. That's it, now you can skip it.
A low-budget zombie movie with a twist: There is no action or horror, only a drama about regular dull people catching a disease that makes them rot slowly and eat other humans. So the (mostly female) youngsters hide and run, killing people and prostituting themselves while an older man tracks them down to locate his missing girl. This premise is actually interesting and I was looking forward to it, but unfortunately there is no plot or interesting characters, and the boring girls just sit around listlessly in between meals. The gore involving butchering and flesh-eating, while not over-the-top nor exploitative, is very prevalent and realistic.
An extremely silly z-grade zombie movie with a special Deadhunter squad charging money for killing zombies who are overruning the city. Some scenes are so dumb they're funny like where a man breaks out in a handkerchief dance to confuse the zombies, some are silly entertainment like male strippers eaten by their audience, but the rest, I'm afraid, consists of people shaking their guns at faces painted with green and gothic goo, shaky and dark cameras, lots of uninteresting action and gut & brain munching gore. Of course Lloyd Kaufman makes a cameo.
Another home-made Romero post-apocalyptic-zombie movie made with friends and a zero budget. A virus breaks out, turning the whole world into zombies while a group of friends try to survive. That's the whole story and it's amateur hour on every front. The acting is terrible featuring teenagers trying to act tough with guns and karate, the lighting is non-existent, the cinematography and editing tries to pull off many tricks but only result in a distracting mess, and the zombie-chewing gore, although gleefully gooey, isn't anything worth searching for and they seem to run out of grue after half the movie. The only stand-out scene is where one guy tries to rape a zombie and loses his pride and joy in graphic detail.
A cheap, horribly inept, but very gory Romero rip-off about a doctor that develops a virus to animate the living. Before you know it, zombies have taken over the planet, zombie police squads are trying to keep some minimal level of control, their hands full with zombie masses, zombie cultists, zombie rights demonstrators and zombies trying to rent Dawn of the Dead while attacking the video rental clerk.
A cliche-ridden slasher from Sweden, only with over-the-top gory deaths. Some very dumb teenagers investigate a serial killer, get locked up in the school, and lots of chases and deaths ensue while they're trying to guess who the killer is. The gore includes axes to the head, decapitations, smashed faces, acid, etc. but doesn't provide much entertainment either.
Revenge exploitation that should go well with Thriller and I Spit on Your Grave except the gimmick here is that there is no dialogue, only music and screams. This approach works nicely sometimes for this movie, but not always. A stupid, stubborn woman refuses to sell her property repeatedly even though they brutally kill her husband, lesbian lover and go after her daughter. After she is raped, beaten and extirpated, she comes back from the ocean like some kind of mermaid ghost, is dressed in bra, pink shoes and pigtails by some child, and goes on a revenge rampage, and eats every nasty thing she comes across. Until the revenge scenes, the gore and acting don't seem to match the brutality, but then we are treated to nasty torture scenes with pliers, chopping, and penis slicing. Brutal exploitation, but never gripping or disturbing.
Yet another Romero zombie rip-off with a derivative script, horrible acting, plenty of body parts and red stuff, and gratuitous nudity. A group of teenagers party in the woods and nearby farms on Halloween while a farmer uncovers a zombie buried under a tree. What follows is a dull stream of scenes where people run away and provide zombie snacks with plenty of limb and intestine rippings.
A horror-splatter movie filmed like a porno using the cliched haunted-house-studied-by-scientists plot. As the students of the paranormal roam the mansion in search for evidence, the owner seems to have his own agenda. Full-frontal nude sluts seduce the roaming victims, then over-the-top gore ensues. Repeat and rinse.
Another no-budget Argentinian silly gore movie (a la Plaga Zombie) about an alien invasion of Jasons from Friday the 13th who chop up the locals and battle it out with a group of b-movie makers. Features scenes such as an actor in a monkey suit being raped by a rival production company, an irate 'artsy' cinematographer threatening murder with a fake gun, and abuse of a plastic baby doll with a big penis. Self-referential, with many references to other movies, and boasting a budget of pocket-change and the cheapest supermarket gore you can imagine, this movie knows how bad it is and makes fun of this fact but the laughs are scarce.
Guinea Pig: The Devil's Experiment
See Extreme Movies.
This second attempt at a realistic snuff film goes over-the-top as a gleefully twisted Japanese man kidnaps a woman, injects her with drugs, and then slowly proceeds to carve her up and cut off all her limbs, then disembowel her in 'artistic' ways to show the 'beauty' of her flesh and blood. The endless close-up gore, despite the special effect giveaways, is quite realistic and very sickening. After it's done, the demented man shows us his museum of body-part art.
A very silly sequel features various vignettes, usually in bad or gory taste with a transvestite 'doctor' as a tour guide. People's heads explode when they get upset, a smorgasbord of cooked human body-parts is sampled, a rotten dead man is embarrassed about the state of his body but his girlfriend is nice to him, a man who sweats blood is cured, a mobile tattoo is removed at the cost of skinning the whole patient, live excrement and intestines are displayed, etc.
An insane dwarf scientist experiments on body parts and cadavers of young girls in order to heal his dying sister. A crooked businessman and his girl supply him with bodies but when they get in his way, he finds a more direct way to make them useful. Lame gore and sound effects, none of the extremes of the other Gunea Pigs, and the re-animation of body parts was done much better in Re-animator.
A couple kidnap a girl, abuse her in various ways while filming her, then they drug her and perform brain surgery on her, playing around with her body reactions as they poke inside her brain and extract a drug. Then they all get high, dress up and go insane, stabbing and slicing each other in a drugged rampage while the girl's intestines fall out. Annoying endless screaming and twisting camera angles.
I've seen this one twice and I still can't remember it. A group of lame and bitchy girls are made to stay in a haunted house as part of a reality TV show, only the hauntings turn out to be more than tricks and special effects. Boring, no nudity, and borderline gore that seems to be made up of spaghetti with sauce and some bones.
Home-made Hellraiser type movie about a supernatural man from hell who likes to pluck eyeballs and is in love with a woman whose abusive father he killed. There is a nonsense plot about souls, a tattooed cousin, policemen and a shrink all investigating this phenomenon who is haunting Melissa and killing her boyfriends, and an irrelevant rape scene involving some lame but nasty tongue and genital mutilation. The occasional splatter is weak, and the acting is the worst I've seen this side of hell.
Bruno Mattei's take on the zombie genre with his usual awful cheesiness and ridiculous sleaze. A chemical leak in New Guinea starts creating zombies. The military and a local news crew join forces to survive in the jungles amongst the tribes and fight the fast-spreading virus. This is yet another terrible zombie clone with laughably bad acting and dialog, weak gore effects (despite the abundance of red stuff and ripped flesh), and non-scary zombies who couldn't outrun a slug. To make 'convincing' scenery, grainy documentary snippets are intercut with the movie. A prime example of the studipity is when in order to infiltrate the local black tribes, a white female news reporter strips naked, and voila, gratuitous nudity.
Amateurish and dumb Hitcher wannabe with a goth-girl as a psychopathic devil killing everyone on the road. You know the drill: A group of over-sexed, over-drugged teenagers drive on the road and battle it out with the devil as they die one by one. Joe Castro made the special effects and serves a couple of over-the-top gore scenes involving head-splitting, body-dismembering and disemboweling by a car.
Japanese take on the zombie splatter genre featuring jewel thieves shooting it out with Yakuza while zombies pop in for a quick bite. The cast seems to be having fun, and the gore is prevalent, but it's just too amateurish and silly to enjoy properly.
A dull and messy Hannibal ripoff (or spoof?) that throws into the mix a small mafia family dealing with drugs and prostitution, lesbian sex, nudity, an insane cannibal killer, a group of policemen, and lots of disemboweling and autopsy gore. The plot is often incoherent and this is made worse by a loud soundtrack that drowns out some of the dialogue.
The leader of a group of criminals is put in jail and his psychotic girlfriend takes over with dire consequences. The first hour wanders around exploring the interactions between the gang members as she screws around, makes them commit petty crimes, has parties and gets the main member of the gang to leave. Then she goes nuts when the leader kills himself in jail, goes to the woods and everyone goes psycho on each other for no good reason, blowing off heads and chests, playing with brains and bowels, decapitating, cutting and stabbing genitals. Boring and pointlessly nasty, making you wish they killed themselves an hour earlier. And I'm sick of violence trying to get art marks by stupidly being declared a 'political statement'.
A cliched, dull giallo sporting a typical plot of a mystery murderer who kills and mutilates lovers making out in the woods, and a criminology student with Nancy Drew aspirations who decides to study this unknown killer. The mystery develops ploddingly with her boyfriend and others becoming suspects, until a sudden, single scene that comes out of nowhere with graphic, explicit genital mutliation worthy of an Andreas Schnaas flick.
If Ed Wood had made a cheesy H.G. Lewis gore film, this may have been the result. A husband suspects his wife of cheating and her diary containing sexual escapades doesn't help his paranoia until he snaps and starts gleefully murdering all the men she mentions in her diary in creative ways. Chainsaws, lawnmowers and even ceiling fans are used to decapitate, disembowel and dismember the victims, and the gore scenes range from nice splatter (jaw being ripped away) to truly lame. The ending features a semi-interesting twist and some silly zombies. The ineptness cancels out the fun of the cheesy camp though. Probably Tim Ritter's most gory movie.
A cliched horror movie about teenagers volunteering to stay in a house only to find themselves being slaughtered, etc etc. There are some interesting mysterious and hallucinative touches here and there but the murderers antics are very unrealistic and the twist ending is one of the most nonsensical endings ever made. The gore is borderline excessive with some scenes that gleefully burn someone with acid, crunch a face across a table corner, eye-gouge and disembowel.
A completely shameless rip-off by the king of rip-off ineptness: Bruno Mattei. This one steals dozens of complete scenes, frame by frame, from Cannibal Holocaust and Predator, mixing them together in a b-movie of laughable cheese. A group of soldiers go into the jungle to rescue friends and come across cannibals. There is no need to describe the plot and characters as we've seen them already elsewhere. Even the gore is sanitized, cutting away from the splatter and leaving us with some weak scattered shots of skinned bodies, intestine munching and dismembering.
Man comes home and catches his cheating wife, kills her, then runs around Las Vegas on a killing spree while carrying his wife's decapitated head. Movie looks like a cheap porn and I think the only reason this was made was as an excuse to hang out with babes in bikinis since over half of the movie lingers on 6 babes playing truth or dare (what is this - a Tim Ritter movie?), trying on bathing suits, and wrestling. The splatter only really makes an appearance in the climax and features some head-drilling, dismemberment, and the cutting open of a real pregnant girl then throwing the fetus against the wall.
Last House on Dead End Street, The (AKA The Fun House)
See Extreme Movies.
A weak horror movie that tries to mix some winking comedy, cheesy horror, drama and splatter. A priest who lost his faith and once had a scandalous affair (begetting a foul-mouthed brat) takes a group of weirdos on an archeological tour in Mexico. They encounter the cult of the Death God who soon throws zombies their way and decapitates, rips apart or crushes some of the tourists. This brings out the splatter fan in the director as suddenly heads are thrown in basketball hoops, severed arms are shoved down people's throats and heads are crushed like tomatoes. But these scenes are scattered and few and the rest of the movie is too cheesy or weak to enjoy, despite the nice soundtrack.
Living a Zombie Dream
See Extreme Movies.
A bored serial killer with a penchant for nasty violence meets with an annoying female serial killer and they both go on a killing spree together. In between killings, they have inane conversations or long stretches of silence. That's the whole movie. Since this was directed by a special effects man, the killings are the centerpiece and are extremely nasty, featuring breast slicing, rape with a burning curler, rape and decapitation in front of her boyfriend, cutting off of genitals, lots of stabbings, etc.
From the French underground splatter director Pellissier (AKA Doctor Gore) comes this full-length release that seems to be a labor of love that throws in everything and the kitchen sink. A family encounters a cult that nastily sacrifices and butchers women in order to raise the dead. They soon find themselves running away from bloodthirsty cultists, a horde of zombies, as well as vampires hiding in the cellars. The amount of splatter ranks up there amongst the top gory movies (although it isn't that creative), but the plot doesn't exist and the whole movie is a tiresome chase, hide and screamathon with characters appearing out of nowhere just to display their intestines. Oh, and the soundtrack is constantly loud. Altogether, a dull splatter movie that never breathes.
Notorious movie about a deranged killer made infamous by its sleaziness and Savini's over-the-top gore effects. The killer had an abusive mother and he takes it out on flashy women, killing them in various ways before scalping them to put their hair on his mannequin collection. The handful of gore effects are brief but are splatterific, including slashings, scalpings, a head blown apart. and a slow decapitation. This kind of movie relies on the acting chops and portrayal of the killer however, and as opposed to most people, I found it crude and unconvincing.
Extremely dull H.G. Lewis inspired gore and nudity romp about an Aztec cultist who sacrifices evil women to his Goddess by cutting their hands and feet, stating that he will cut 'the part they do evil with', then cutting open their stomach and pulling out their huge elephant-sized hearts. The gore and nudity scenes all look the same, there is none of the campy H.G. Lewis charm, there is a bad romance between a policeman and a hooker, and the cultist finds evil women by going to a bar and asking prostitutes 'are you evil?'.
Men Behind the Sun 2: Laboratory of the Devil
See Extreme Movies.
One of Andy Milligan's last movies and one of his goriest, but that isn't saying much. Featuring a Toxic Avenger-like monster, this terrible slice of b-movie comedy tells the tale of 3 guys who build a golem to avenge a raped, beaten and eviscerated girl. The golem is looking for love (while leaking blood) and gentleness, except when he is ripping apart criminals that is. After a touch of body part splatter however, this movie sinks into campy and very dumb comedy.
Dario Argento was always more of a horror stylist and not into splatter so when this is described as his goriest with excessive death scenes, this is relative. It's also the third part of a witchcraft trilogy (Susperia, Inferno) for which fans have been waiting 30 years. Unfortunately it's also a cheesy and stupid b-movie with none of the style of the others. Sarah works at a museum when an evil power is unearthed and starts a wave of nihilistic violence and murder. In addition, some guy is gorily dispatching her acquaintances with the use of a screeching monkey and designer torture weapons that rip open various body parts. The witches are ridiculous, annoyingly loud teenagers in goth-makeup, the acting is terrible, and the ending, although it has some bizarre moments in a catacomb, is anti-climactic. Oh, and Dario directs his daughter in gratuitous nude scenes again.
My Lovely Burnt Brother and His Squashed Brain
See Extreme Movies.
A serial killer who 'mutilates' his female victims by playing with pig-gut special effects strewn all over their naked bodies is shot by men acting as policemen (who have somehow memorized their lines) then brought back to life by Satanists who stab a baby doll and urinate on his grave. Soon he is back to his gory killings, this time aided by a foot-long penis, until he kills a lesbian having sex with a blow-up doll and falls in love with the doll. The remaining Satanists conjure up a demonic $3 plastic doll that flies through the air hanging on a wire in order to fight the zombie serial killer. Enough said.
The serial killer's brother (who thinks aloud through a voice distortion effect) tries to follow in his footsteps by killing, raping and mutilating women (in that order) then brings back his brother from the dead with vomit and urine. Overcoming penis envy and inept corrupt cops, they go on a violent raping spree. This time the 'sex' is practically x-rated, the cheap gore is bloody and gleefully twisted, but the acting is the worst of all.
Laughably bad gory horror in an Ed Wood way. A mad doctor attempts to heal his son by transplanting an ape's heart, with disastrous bloody results as his son grows facial hair and goes on a rampage, while a policeman and his wrestler girlfriend track down the killer. Lots of cheap nudity as the ape-man tears off clothes, bad gore, female wrestling, and real heart transplant footage sloppily spliced into the movie for an increased gore quota.
No, not the old 1957 release. This extremely cheesy nasty tells the tale of a group of over-sexed anthropologists and students who go in search of Bigfoot rumored to be a demon killing some locals. The elements that make this such a joy to watch are the flashbacks within flashbacks, the laughably bad acting, the loud noise that serves as a soundtrack, and the occasional gore that the camera lovingly lingers over. People get their arms ripped off, disemboweled, pitchforked, impaled, a girl gets some Sasquatch lovin', and one poor fellow gets his penis yanked off.
Notorious bad exploitation and b-movie maker Doris Wishman creates this painfully awful mess even by her standards. A woman is released from an insane asylum and her siblings try to drive her mad for some reason, but jealousy soon leads to lots of murders (also for reasons unknown). The editing is disjointed and confusing, the acting horrible, the narration is laughably bad and keeps telling you obvious things that you just saw on the screen, the bad gore is plentiful but mostly of the blood-spattering variety while victims get axed and slashed again and again, and Dorish gets to film more feet to satisfy her foot fetish. Painfully dull.
Laughable Fulci-wannabe zombie movie about a group of people caught in a mansion where a professor has opened a crypt containing intelligent but slow zombies. Extremely dumb characters who put themselves in harm's way, bad acting, horrible dubbing, and an annoyingly loud soundtrack. The gore includes lots of the usual gut-munching and skull-smashing but the zombies actually use various weapons and tools to do their splatter handiwork. Features a 25 year old actor acting as a 12 year old boy with an unhealthy obsession for his mother's nipples and body. When he becomes a zombie, this takes a turn for the worse.
Amateurish post-apocalyptic zombie splatter movie where survivors try to outrun and fight the masses of zombies, and the survivor communes are worse than the unprotected cities. Robotic acting, dumb dialog, and amateurish effects with blood that is the wrong color. 28 Days Later did this much, much better.
Zero-budget splatter-comedy about a hole in the ozone layer mutating rednecks into multicolored wild killers. This would have been campy fun in the vein of H.G. Lewis but the comedy is very lame, and the splatter occurs mostly at the climax where rednecks go on a rampage in a karaoke gathering and in people's homes, tearing people apart. The rest of the gore consists of blood splatter and a lot of multicolored goo oozing and vomiting.
Very early precursor to the ultra-realistic and gory Seppuku films by Kikaku et al, albeit not as graphic, and more artistic. A Japanese soldier is forced into a position where the only way out is honorable suicide. This backplot told via scrolling text, the 30-minute movie simply involving the soldier and his wife going through the ritual, making love, then slicing themselves open. B&W, stagey and silent.
Silly low-budget homage to 70s Satanic grindhouse that feels like a Chris Seaver movie with a bunch of folk in colorful 70s costumes and wigs. There's the Freemasonic/Satanic cult, an evil curse and a book of power, a sister looking for her brainwashed brother, a professor and his assistant researching evil, and finally, the living-dead ancient Satanists. The horrible audio is dubbed with complete disregard to what's happening on screen, there's off-screen nasty sex and rape, and most of the cheap unimpressive splatter is left to the end featuring eye-gouging, intestine yanking, scalping, decapitation and more. Trick-marketed as a long lost Italian 70s nasty but the secret is out now. If it's going to be this bad at least give us some comedy.
Just another boring slasher released after the success of Friday the 13th about a soldier who goes on a killing spree after getting a Dear John letter from his girlfriend. Savini goes all out with gore effects while the killer pitchforks and slashes his teenage victims, and since the movie is so dull, the only things people remember of this flick are the scattered but very effective gore scenes.
Psycho: The Snuff Reels
See Extreme Movies.
Another entry in the underground zero-budget German splatter genre. A man is performing medical experiments on a girl, repeatedly injecting her with a serum that makes her experience her own death in various ways. When she starts gaining control of her own hallucations, reality starts changing. This sounds a lot more interesting than it really is however, as the movie uses this only as an excuse to string together sadistic snuff scenes, ranging from waking up to find pieces of herself on the dinner table, to drowning in a romantic peaceful forest.
A woman is in love with her husband but she and his best friend think he is possessed with evil for no apparent reason so they try to exorcise him by killing and dismembering him. Starts as pixelated porn, then becomes a Guinea Pig as they meticulously cut him open, disembowel, dismember and carve him into pieces, then she has sex with the body parts and suddenly we're back to the porn. I don't get it.
An attempt at horror by a porn director and the result is a horrible zombie movie full of plot holes, soft-core nudity and exploitation, and a handful of short scenes of splatter. We have some cheesy conspiracies, back-stabbings and scandals, a poison in the local milk that kills a few women, and a company that pours toxic waste into a graveyard that brings them back to life. The zombies then run around stealthily taking revenge on the nasty people. The gore includes some genital mutilation, gut-munching and a splatterific birth in the shower.
A splatter short so silly, it's actually good for a few chuckles. Two brothers practice kung-fu all their lives until one of them is eaten by bad sushi (which they weren't charged for) and turns into a zombie. To stop the gory killing spree, he must meet his fate, and fight his brother to the death after getting sage advice from his master with long white eyebrows.
Salome & The Forbidden
See Extreme Movies.
Thai confused horror movie that is part supernatural, part slasher, part dumb twist. A group of teenagers (of course) run around in the woods after their bus falls through an old bridge and get picked off gruesomely by strange Final Destination-esque coincidences and a mysterious slasher. Dozens of teenagers are beheaded, impaled, and slashed by a variety of objects and there is one creative death scene after another which, despite the relatively tame gore-effects, places this in the gore section.
An attempt at Re-animator style splatter comedy that constantly looks like it should be gory fun but isn't. A scientist tries to create a plasmid to re-generate missing body parts. His mother provides the financial backing with commercial plans that clash with her son's ideals, and seems to have developed an unhealthy attachment to him. Things get out of hand in the lab, he loses an arm, regenerates it from killer lizard genes and runs off into the sewer to continue his work with bums. Includes body-part experimentation galore but the pseudo science and plot is dumb, the gore is mostly rubbery, and the comedy falls flat.
An odd trio of erotic-gore performance numbers by a French porn director. The first features a woman in a pub bathroom being stripped, tortured, stabbed, burned and killed by remote-control voodoo doll. The second splatter center-piece features a ghoul and a semi-willing goth-girl in a dungeon, the ghoul realistically sticking needles in all kinds of places, cutting himself and finally eye-gouging and killing the girl. The silly third features a vampire stripping and biting a girl who promptly breaks into nude dancing to Tina Turner.
In the old tradition of D'Amato and his followers, this mixture of horror, gore and porn is a dull flick with non-erotic porn and non-scary horror. Mike is obsessed with porn and when he orders a special DVD from a strange site promising out-of-this-world gruesome porn, the disc shows him some snuff then takes over his life, becoming reality. Features only a couple of weak splatter scenes with some nasty brain munching, and lots of uninteresting XXX.
Slaughtered Vomit Dolls
See Extreme Movies.
This amateurish snuff movie just doesn't manage to rise above its low budget and overly-simple plot. A twisted frontman convinces his gore-loving friend to film a slasher movie, only things rapidly get out of hand when he decides to make the kills real and the people around him start having suspicions and second thoughts. One victim after another is killed on camera in different ways including chainsaw, decapitation, dynamite, stabbings, face-bashing, etc. Even the splatter isn't that great.
A dismally terrible horror movie about a mad scientist who invents a drug that enables people to leave their bodies, separate their souls, re-enter other bodies and get gory hallucinations all while under the influence. A reporter, friends, an ex-boss, cops etc. become involved and slowly find out he is conducting experiments with kidnapped girls. Features messy editing, terrible acting, sound and editing, and ketchup gore, with all of the excessive splatter appearing in a climax involving zombies, eye-gouging and re-animated corpses that are falling apart.
A couple of Finnish teenage fans of Fulci and Bad Taste filmed this one in their homes for fun. Aliens land and infect a bird-spotter with a zombie virus. The secret anti-UFO team moves out to wipe them out and lots of gun fighting and some raspberry jam gut-munching ensue. They obviously had fun with this and there are some z-movie amusements, but the gore is weak and this just isn't much good.
Splatter comedy about an insane scientist who goes on a killing rampage while rambling on about his time machine and being chased by the electricity company's special forces. The entertaining splatter includes a variety of blood-gushing effects. What they lack in the acting department they make up for with energy and directorial style, and what they lack in the plot and comedy departments ... well they don't make up for those.
Street Trash
See Extreme Movies.
Subconscious Cruelty
See Extreme Movies.
Three short, dull, amateurish shorts. Only the last one delivers any splatter and it's lame, the rest of the time the movies cut away from any nastiness. The first is about a woman who meets a couple to fulfill her ultimate fantasy of being eaten, the second involves a willing goth girl at a party of cannibalistic girls, the third is about a family of butchers who kill people at random, pull out their guts, and eat them. Not much plot and lots of nudity, even from the girls you don't want to see.
Hailed as a cheap, French Re-Animator clone by the maker of Ogroff but this is a mess. A mad doctor performs grotesque experiments in an insane asylum, keeping a truck-load of body parts (some of them moving) in the basement. After he is caught, his son goes to New York to contnue his work with the business of brain transplants, stealing brains from famous people. Among other things, he performs surgery by chainsawing a man to pieces, but when the wife becomes displeased, he sews him back together and returns him to his wife on crutches. The plot falls apart, but so do people's heads, and soon there is out-of-control violence, an assistant who fries a brain for breakfast, and a group of dead bodies that come back for revenge with the help of a dismembered cat. Not as fun as it sounds but entertaining for so-bad-its-good genre fans.
Some teenagers get bored and decide to become cannibals. They roam the city killing people at random, teasing and abusing them, then cut them open and gnaw on their intestines and unborn fetuses. The other half of the movie features a useless plot of a cop tracking them down slowly, and random scenes of the youth hanging out and having sex. Something like a tamer precursor to August Underground. Boring.
Homemade gore movie about homemade gore movies. A couple moves into a city where people seem to have an obsession with gory horror movies. Some locals grab visitors and kill them in various creative ways to make their own homemade splatter movies. The newcomers try to figure out what's going on while more splatter video tapes keep appearing. The sequel features a splatter TV host show where people send in their work and guests are kill...oh you get the idea. Bad acting, slow pace, dull plot. The camp should have raised this to H.G. Lewis territory, but, unfortunately, it lacks the charm, and the abundant gore ranges from terribly fake to weak.
A group of stripper witches with boob jobs lure people into their basement for some decapitation and dismemberment as sacrifices to their god. Nudity, breasts, gore, heavy metal and Ron Jeremy should add up to at least a fun b-movie but instead we have lots of fake breasts, dull and scarce splatter, and annoying, dumb acting.
Someone must have taken a dozen zombie movies, cut them into bits, thrown the pieces in the air and made this movie out of whatever landed first. There is no logic, no consistency (zombies sometimes plod and sometimes jump from trees and talk, and sometimes slash and cut like Demons), the plot involves voodoo, scientists, hell and other bits and pieces which are never tied together, and the characters are as flat as can be. There are only two mediocre splatter scenes, the rest of the action involving some blood and green goo. This isn't a stupid movie, it's literally mindless.
A mixture of idiotic wrestling attitudes and a silly zombie movie with a handful of splatter scenes. Wrestling heroes wearing masks go after a zombie king who is building a legion of the undead and experimenting with genetics. Mostly wrestling scenes with posing attitudes, and the occasional gore isn't anything worth looking for.
The gore, unfortunately, consists mainly of buckets of splattering blood and one extremely inept face ripping scene. The tagline says "Another 90 minutes of your life will be wasted by watching this movie" and although I found the over-the-top moronic scenes so-bad-they're-funny, they were far and few between. There is no plot, just cartoonish characters prancing in the woods battling zombies and a deranged doctor with a taste for gore, a child (acted by a guy) and his mother (acted by a guy) who chew on each other after being infected, lots of guns and silly bloody fights, a very slow pace, and a cool death metal performance.
A dismal rip-off and nonsensical mix of Fulci's Zombie and the cannibal genre. Strange deaths and cannibalistic behaviour in New York lead a reporter and a few other adventurous people to an island with an eccentric doctor and ritualistic cannibalism. Extremely gory and very dumb.
Another one of those lame 'teenagers playing zombies in the woods' flicks. 50 minutes (with 15 minutes of credits), no plot, just survivors trying to act tough vs. zombies. The gore, although plentiful, is as weak as it gets, consisting of mostly lots of blood, a handful of pieces of meat, and a woman half buried in the ground with blood and guts to replace her middle-section.
Zombie Toxin
See Extreme Movies.
Obscure Brazilian 45-minute zombie movie. A witch raises the dead and they attack various people in the woods, including a strange cross-dresser with a beard. The witch feeds the zombies with a sperm-like substance from her veins then mutates. The lame gore is strictly of the multicolored-porridge and pulling-guts-from-tshirts variety.