Showing posts with label Extreme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Extreme. Show all posts

Sella Turcica (2010)

Sella Turcica (2010)
Director: Fred Vogel
Writers: Don Moore, Fred Vogel
Cast: Damien A. Maruscak, Camille Keaton and Jade Risser
A paralyzed soldier returns from war to his family in worse shape than anyone at home could imagine.
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New toe-tag means more gore overload right ? well yes to some degree but Fred Vogel is attempting to move more into mainstream plot based horror with every new movie he brings out. And for most part he succeeds, plots pretty much a carbon copy of Bob Clarks classic zombie Vietnam movie 'Deathdream' (its due an official remake soon titled Zero Dark Thirty). About a returning from service soldier who's got a secret.

Everythings just passable with Sella Turcica (The title refers to a the bone in the skull, which is oddly never mentioned in the movie itself.) the actings OK infact next to most toe-tag films its oscar worthy, the scripts good enough. My only real problem is the film starts with lush scenery as the soldier Brad is driven home, yet once reaching the house, we never leave it and boy is it in need of a redecoration. Gore is something Vogel and his talented FX crew have always done well, and even though its only for the last 10 or so minutes is as bloody as you'll see. to sum it up, its definitely no classic, but is a nice step in the right direction for Toe-Tag and Vogel, if you consider its an indie horror its a pretty damned good movie.

(6½ out of 10)

Death Tube (2010)

Death Tube (2010)
Director: Fukuda Youhei
Cast: Wataru Kaoru, Shôichi Matsuda
A young girl gets hooked on a website called “Death Tube” which broadcasts actual murders in real time. At first she didn’t believe it was real, until she is brought into the site itself. The killing game is about to begin.
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(Not Yet Rated)
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Maskhead (2009)

Maskhead (2009)
Directors: Fred Vogel, Scott Swan
Writer: Scott Swan
Cast: Douglas Bell, Jerami Cruise, Lacey Fleming
Maskhead tells the depraved tale of Syl and Maddie, lesbian filmmakers who produce fetish videos with a deadly twist. Each sickening video concludes with somebody getting tortured and killed snuff movie style by a hulking, bandaged brute in a bizarre mask that covers his deformed face. This is “Maskhead,” Syl and Maddie’s star. With the help of their sociopath associate, The Cowboy, the demented crew begins work on their next series of Maskhead videos. Business is good and the bodies pile up quickly.
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(Not Yet Rated)
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A Serbian Film (2010)

A Serbian Film (2010)
aka Srpski Film
Director: Srdjan Spasojevic
Writers: Aleksandar Radivojevic, Srdjan Spasojevic
Cast: Srdjan Todorovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Jelena Gavrilovic
An aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.
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For the first time in cultdb's/my own film viewing history I am going to put out a kind of disclaimer to people, to quote the film 8mm "There are some things that you see, and you can't unsee"
!!! PLEASE BE EXTREMELY CAUTIOUS
BEFORE VIEWING THIS FILM !!!
[Right so I had heard the online hype surrounding this film for a while. I've even had it here gathering dust for a few months not feeling in the mood for a dark movie to spoil my summer. So time come to watch it, So I can handle this right ? .... errr well I did but it was an extremely painful hollow viewing experience. Over the years I've seen pretty much everything and anything I could lay my hands on. I think during your teens you watch gore/extreme horror films to test yourself (kinda rites of passage to see if you are man enough)... So I've seen all the UK banned video nasties including the mondo docu's the cannibal films & nazisploitation ones. Since then I've seen Pasolini's Salo, absolute bucket loads of Asian sex/gore movies by the likes of Hisayasu Sato & Daisuke Yamanouchi, heaps of newer American sexualized gore films like the August Underground series and more recent hard edged European fodder by the likes of Agusti Villaronga, Gaspar Noe, Philippe Grandrieux, Catherine Breillat & Pascal Laugier.]

All of which only part way prepared me for A Serbian Film. The plot follows a semi retired pornstar Milos who via a fellow porn actress gets introduced to Vukmir. He offerers Milos the opportunity to earn big money for doing one more secretive movie performance that would see him, wife and son financially secure for the rest of their lives. Things start to spiral out of control for the actor when the director starts introducing torture into the sex and insists on having a teenage girl watch. Milos refuses to continue working with the twisted Vukmir who clearly as lost all faith in humanity, the director tries to convince Milos by giving him a private screening of what must be the most taboo breaking clip I or I would imagine anyone viewing has ever seen (at this point I was going to switch the film off like I'd suspect most viewers would, I'm sure loads walked out of screenings after or during it). Milos is like mindedly sickened and walks away, only Vukmir needs to finish his film so with the aid of an attrctive doctor drugs poor Milos into doing ever more sickening and degrading things ultimately leading back to the now unhinged hallucinating porn actors family.

The soundtrack was droney and worked well also the cast and crew did a good job as did the cinematographer. Some viewers have stated it's got a political subtext, I am not so sure I suspect it was made to sicken and horrify. And dare I say cash in a little on the recent torture/horror market with films like Martyrs & Grotesque earning good money. I'm not going to say its good or bad, for me it fell somewhere between. Sure you can call that a cop out but it's so hard to judge the merits of a film that makes you feel so empty and touches the pit of your stomach, and in no way rewards you.

(7 out of 10)

Hanger (2009)

Hanger (2009)
Director: Ryan Nicholson
Writer: Ryan Nicholson, Patrick Coble
Cast: Debbie Rochon, Dan Ellis, Nathan Dashwood
A horrifying tale of revenge that begins with a back-alley abortion, and ends with a bloodbath so vicious that it brings a new meaning to 'an eye for eye.' From pimps to dealers and hookers to junkies, this film dives headfirst into the depths of human depravity
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Holy mother fucking hell what we have here folks is the first film since the turn of this millennium thats really sickened me (*note this is excluding the odd Asian gore nasty and rare European horror namely Martyrs). In a watered down age like ours mostly thanks to western censorship films like Hanger are few and far between. Strangely though other than the actual killings theres nothing here you don't get on trashy day time TV like Springer. Don't get me wrong with the build up this isn't by any means a great film but it is an exceptionally sleazy one. The films about a truck stop whore who becomes pregnant to one of her regular clients. Only her pimp wont let her go and uses an hanger to drag out the unborn child killing the hooker and leaving the kid mutated. Cut forward to present and the kids grown and living/working in a trash yard, and his father is looking for revenge against the pimp. Younger genre fans will most likely be puzzled at how this kind of film could be made and why its not a Saw or Wrong Turn clone, older fans like myself will instantly get a feeling of a cross between Sonny Boy and Street Trash. Personally I didn't think very much of Hanger but I salute the cast/crew for making such a throwback to exploitation cinema (erm before I forget I've been told whatever you do don't get the rated version its meant to be cut to ribbons).
(6½ out of 10)

The Death Factory Bloodletting (2008)

The Death Factory Bloodletting (2008)
Director: Sean Tretta
Writer: Mike Marsh, Sean Tretta
Cast: Claudia Vargas, Michelle Mousel, David Hayes
Ana Romero has lost all hope. Her daughter was tragically murdered and she is obsessed with finding the person responsible. When a video of her daughter s death surfaces on the internet, she tracks it to an underground website known only as the GOREHOUSE . She poses as an online trader of illegal video material in hopes of finding her daughter s killer. Her quest takes her into the bowels of humanity and immerses her in a dark and twisted world of degradation and pain. Her only mission, to find her daughter s killer and bring him to justice! She joins a group of online deviants who are invited to an abandoned factory to witness a "Bloodletting", an event displaying the torture and murder of an innocent person. Once inside, they soon realize that they have been lured into a trap by a self-righteous madman, who uses the factory and its bloodthirsty inhabitant as his own personal version of Hell. Chalked full of baby killers, neo-Nazi s, pedophiles, nerco-sexuals, white slave traders, anarchists, whores, religious madmen, and of course flesh eating ravenous beasts, The Death Factory Bloodletting puts the BLOOD in Bloodletting!
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(Not Yet Rated)
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Madame De Sade (1986)

Madame De Sade (1986)
aka Madamu Sado Mesu jigoku, Madame De Sade She Beast In Hell
Director: Itsumichi Isomura
Writer: Yoshihiro Kawasaki
Cast: Kazuyo Ezaki, Isshiki Hikaru, Keijiro Shiga, Machiko Wachi
Japanese pinky about a wife seeking sexual freedom because her husband can no longer perform due to being sexually tortured.
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Nature Morte (2006)

Nature Morte (2006)
Director: Paul Burrows
Cast: Troy McFadden, Carole Derrien, Laurent Guyon, Jeso Vial
Paint me dead! The strange case of ten beautiful paintings, ten victims of a deranged serial killer and the suicide of a brilliant painter is investigated by an American art guru. From the south of France to Thailand, nothing is what it seems as he is drawn into a world of lust and depravity, where more paintings begin to surface and another artist begins to kill in order to create! A film described as Insane and beautiful by legendary exploitation director Jess Franco, Nature Morte is a sophisticated, dark and highly stylized psychological thriller.
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(Not Yet Rated)

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Daughter (2002)

Daughter (2002)
Director: Eduardo Rodriguez
Writers: Sean Garman, Eduardo Rodriguez
You just woke up from an unspeakable nightmare. How does it feel? Relief? How would you feel if when you woke, the nightmare had just begun? Shae Powell, a successful single mom, wakes up rattled from a horrible dream. A dream woven in blood. Shaken, Shae goes to check on her young daughter, Sophie. Everything appears to be in order. Shae is about to return to bed when she hears water running in the bathroom. She can't get in there because te door is locked. Shae should pray that it stays locked.
'Sublime short horror film by Eduardo Rodriguez. Its a wonderful jaw dropping blend of horrific tension and surreal weirdness as a single woman who wakes from a dream goes to check on her daughter to find the dreams just begun. Its visually so thrilling and inventive. I can't recommend it highly enough. I for one will be keeping my eyes on Eduardo Rodriguez. Miramax reportedly gave the student director a three picture movie deal on the back of it. Even at only 13 and half minutes its trippy headfuck cinema at its best Highly recommended.'
(9 out of 10)

Broken (2006)

Broken (2006)
Directors: Simon Boyes, Adam Mason
Writers: Simon Boyes, Adam Mason
Hope and her young daughter are abducted and brought to a remote forest by a mysterious and nameless man. As Hope is forced to undergo a series of humiliating, violent, and degrading trials, she fights desperately to escape and discover the fate of her missing daughter.
'Truly disturbing feature from the team of Boyes/Mason whom with a reported budget of £500,000 and basically 3 core actors have managed to do what so many other multi million dollar horror movies fail to do, and that's deliver. It succeeds by working on a much more psychological level than its peers (films like Saw or Feed). Those films felt the need to explain their self whereas Broken just plays out the story in its grim almost unspoken brutal nature. It does have its flaws chiefly in how uneasy it makes you feel, its more a film you endure than enjoy and it forces you to ask yourself the the same question the abductor ask's and thats 'Will you go on?'. Not for everyone's tastes then, but if you can handle its nilistic approach one worth the view.
(7 out of 10)

Red Account: My Bloody Angel (1988)

Red Account: My Bloody Angel (1988)
Director: Toshiki Sato
The beautiful Tomoko loves her husband Masao with all her heart. Unfortunately, the devil has taken Kawakami to exorcise Masao to get rid of the "Evil one". The fact was established that the immortal had nested himself in Masao's eye. Initially our savior wanted to let him out of there but it turned out that the devil had already infested all internal organs.
'Kicks in like a routine Japanese porno complete with pixeled out genitals then around the 40 min mark takes a real shift into extreme gore territory, and boy does it kick in as she chops a man in pieces. One of the most notable moments she masterbates with a choped off hand, a scene I'm sure would please fans of Jap AV legends like Daisuke Yamanouchi or Hisayasu Sato. By no means the best of the genre and due to its subject only recommended to fans of extreme cinema.Only gore hounds or fans of blured out sex scenes need apply'
(5 out of 10)

Experiment in Torture (2007)

Experiment in Torture (2007)
Director: Sean Macarthur
Lured by the smell of easy money, several beautiful exotic dancers agree to spend the weekend at the remote, mountain getaway of a wealthy voyeur. Once there, the girls are drugged, tied up and slowly tortured to death with everything from a blowtorch to an electric drill by a killer who uses their bodies as a canvas for his twisted, sadistic art.
(Not yet rated)