Cannibal Ferox

CANNIBAL FEROX
By Blake Redding

Anytime you get a movie with the word ‘Cannibal’ in it and it’s directed by an Italian you know you are in for some sick shit. When CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST was released it raised the bar for exploitation and gore flicks, so of course there were many directors chomping at the bit to one up it. This movie comes with the disclaimer “banned in 31 countries!” so of course I’m going to buy this piece of cinematic glory, and I didn’t even know there were 31 countries, but I might be thinking of continents and I digress. So for this week’s Sunday Snuff I scooped myself a Sriracha covered rice bowl and watched these filthy natives with a hankering for human flesh dig into some white people’s chest.

CANNIBAL FEROX begins with a group of students who head into the jungle to prove the existence of a cannibalistic tribe (they seriously never learn). The first native the students run into is casually snacking on the fattest, most disgusting grubs I have ever seen. There are no cut or trick shots here, he is just putting those live suckers in his mouth and chomping them up, making sure you see the guts oozing through his teeth. The group breathes a sigh of relief that he is eating larva as opposed to human limbs. Here is where their logic becomes quite laughable. They are carrying around a live rodent looking animal, so that in the event a larger predator becomes a threat, they can throw the rodent as a diversion and make their escape. Well, the geniuses decide to tie the little guy to a post out in the open in the middle of the Jungle. Oh look, it’s a 30 foot boa constrictor! The rodent meets a horrible fate at the mouth of the giant snake and we are treated to our first REAL animal death. Anyone familiar with the Cannibal genre is familiar with the animal death scenes, personally I would rather watch the humans get ripped apart any day but these damn Italians.

Now, there is always that one asshole that has to get all crazy on cocaine and start fucking with the natives.

You mad bro, because you just shot and killed a young topless native girl. Now the shit hit’s the fan, but before we get to the human buffet, we are treated to a live turtle being butchered and roasted over an open fire, and a monkey being attacked and eaten by a Cheetah. There is not an option in the menu to watch sans animal killings like the copy of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST I own. I’m sure animal rights groups everywhere are crying themselves to sleep because I sure as hell am.

Ok, back to the human on human action. It’s getting close to dinner time and natives are getting hungry. They quickly turn on the white devils and imprison them. For an appetizer, they tear open a man’s chest like it’s a goddamn Thanksgiving turkey and proceed to stuff their faces with his guts. It’s a good thing I was done with my red rice bowl. With their appetite curbed for now they tie up the white man responsible for shooting the young girl (played by HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK’S Giovanni Radice) to a stake in the ground with his hands bound behind his back. Its time for some cruel and unusual punishment; castration!! The native pulls out a dull machete and cut his dick right off. Don’t worry fellas, they show everything up close and personal and they don’t even kill him after, they just let him suffer. If you are a dude and don’t cringe at this part, you are actually a chick and should see a doctor immediately.

Now don’t worry ladies these filthy cannibals have something heinous in store for your parts as well! The natives pull the blonde white woman out of the cage and rip her shirt off, just like in real life. Are they planning on having a nice little heavy petting session with her? Nope. They take two metal hooks and rip them into her tits and string her up. Now it’s a party! But wait, no party is complete without some human brains to snack on during the torture viewing. Picture this if you will. There is a wooden table with a perfect circle cut out of the middle, just big enough for someone to stick the top of their head out. Well, that’s exactly what they do. The put one of the men with his hands and feet bound under the table with the top of his head exposed. One of the natives takes his trusty machete and lops the top of his head off, exposing his brains. The hungry tribe stands around the head and eats the brains like it was a plate of nachos.

There is absolutely no shortage of blood and gore in this movie kids. All the effects are very well done which makes the kills very effective. The Italians always deliver in the special effects department.

Although not quite as disturbing as its big bro CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, CANNIBAL FEROX is no slouch. It is violent, bloody, sadistic, and just plain nasty. This is a movie the casual horror movie fan needs to work up to. Maybe have a couple cocktails before viewing to ease the pain. That’s how Jimmy and I got through CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST all those years ago!

Blake and Jimmy's Extreme-O-Gauge!

Realistic Gore: 5 out of 5, great looking special effects and things get VERY messy. 

Torture: 5 our of 5, Ouch and ouch and ouch and ouch! 

Rape: 0 out of 5, Not in this one, surprisingly. 

Animal Death: 5 out of 5, all real animal deaths. You can fast forward, it’s OK. 

Necrophilia: 0 out of 0. I’m sure those horny natives are defiling some dead bodies off camera.

Overall Movie:  4 out of 5, I prefer CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST just a little bit more.

Mondo Cane

MONDO CANE
By Jimmy Squarejaw

*WARNING*

All movies reviewed for SUNDAY SNUFF contain graphic depictions that may include rape, live animals being murdered, and extreme gore.  None of the writers condone such acts we just watch this shit. 

Well after all the bad news surrounding watching movies last week, we over at Y’all Are Dead’s Extreme Movie Department decided to give you folks a break.  Unbeknownst to me the movie I watched was also pretty tame so it might sooth the transition back into the wretched world of extreme cinema.  This week I chose the ol’ classic MONDO CANE from 1962.

I have heard murmurings about this movie since I was a video store hoping teen and I had always wanted to check it out since it was evidently a pre-cursor to FACES OF DEATH.  Well….what MONDO CANE actually is, is a sort of shock-u-mentary that has it’s place in a junior high school’s sociology class rather than a gore hounds video shelf.

The movie has a central theme of showing how archaic rituals and traditions relate to contemporary social norms.  After a bit you get the sense that the filmmakers are trying to paint a dreadful image of today’s Caucasian population and that aint’ too hard y’all.  A secondary theme shows all of the different roles animals play throughout the world relating to culture and cuisine and that plays off wonderfully from the translation of the title, “A Dog’s World.” 

A lot of the scenes in MONDO CANE were pretty interesting even if they weren’t horrifying.  A first choice bit for me is scene shot on an island poisoned by atomic energy.  Here birds live underground, fish jump out of the water and live in trees, and sea turtles lay eggs then beach themselves and die slowly because their internal navigation got fucked by atomic bomb testing. 

Another gem is an inside look in a foie gras farm in the foie gras capital of the world, Strasbourg, France.  Boy does that scene make me hate white people even more!  But at least geese can sit pleasantly knowing that the human race has adapted this custom for themselves with fast food and convenience shopping. 

And my favorite scene was at a pet cemetery in Los Angeles, which I didn’t even know existed back in the late 50’s and early 60’s.  Here we see a woman bawling as her poochy is lowered into a shallow grave plot.  The filmmakers add some choice footage of headstones for pets of the famous like Jack Warner, and the Jerry Lewis Family.  Hilariously the camera then turns to show random dogs shitting and pissing on the various headstones and kicking up grass onto them.  FUNNY!

I liked MONDO CANE a lot but not as a representative of extreme cinema.  I liked it because to me it seemed like a dark comedy that stung with cynicism and very well could have initiated the interest in shows like candid camera, funniest home videos, youtube and fail videos that we see today rampant in culture.  Another part of MONDO CANE I loved was the soundtrack.  Beautiful orchestration with a hint of cartoon-esque satire set to the barbaric rituals of the world!  Can’t beat hearing a zipper sound when a snake gets slit apart and it’s skin ripped off.  Trust me there is a lot more I can go on about this MONDO CANE but hopefully I’ve created enough intrigue to go out and rent the damn thing! 

Blake and Jimmy’s Extreme-O-Gauge!

 

Realistic Gore: 1 out of 5, unlike FACES OF DEATH, there really isn’t any.

Rape: 0 out of 0, but there is a scene where a woman breastfeeds a piglet!

Animal Death: 5 out of 5, there is a lot of different animals, some are cute, being killed or dying horribly!

Necrophilia: 0 out of 5, we’ll try and hit a homerun the next movie!

Torture: 2 out of 5, nothing too crazy.  Some inexperienced shark fishermen fuck with dying sharks and that poor damn sea turtle that wanders into the desert on the atomic island probably dies a slow torturous death. 
Overall Movie: 4 out of 5, there are better "Shockumentaries" out there, but this one had a really dark humor to it that a lot of others don't, and the music was AMAZING!
 

 

Android of Notre Dame

THE ANDROID OF NOTRE DAME

By Jimmy Squarejaw

 

 

*WARNING*

All movies reviewed for SUNDAY SNUFF contain graphic depictions that may include rape, live animals being murdered, and extreme gore.  None of the writers condone such acts we just watch this shit. 

This week for SUNDAY SNUFF I decided to crack open the much sought after GUINEA PIG box set.  For those who are not familiar with these movies here’s a CliffsNotes history for you.  Back in the 1980’s and early 90’s a series of six insanely graphic films were made in Japan under the guise of producer Hideshi Hino.  From my understanding they were all underground midnight-type movies being that they were all filled with excessive gore and extreme violence.  Then comes along a Japanese serial killer by the name of Tsutomu Miyazaki. When Miyazaki was caught the Japanese authorities found one of these films in his collection and figured the killer modeled some of his killings on these movies so they were all banned in Japan. 

Now cut to 1991 at a party in Hollywood.  Charlie Sheen, probably under the influence of more than 7-Up and Saltines, watched one of these films after it was given to him by Chris Gore. (I’ve never heard of this guy but I assume he’s annoying if he hangs out with Charlie Sheen and has a fake name like that.)  After watching the film Sheen does the right thing and contacts the F.B.I. because he thought it was a real Snuff movie. 

The years following all of this negative hype saw the movies go pretty much extinct in any form of print.  I know there are two different box sets out there released in the early 2000’s containing all the films but even those are now out-of-print so good luck trying to find them. 

The first film I decided to review is one that I haven’t watched out of the set and one that doesn’t get a lot of written coverage, the fifth film in the series THE ANDROID OF NOTRE DAME.

The movie opens with a withered old man rambling about existence, life, and death.  If you don’t have brain damage it’s pretty clear that he is the aged version of the young dwarf scientist we meet next toiling away in his dark lab full of all sorts of lab animals.  Like the other GUINEA PIG movies I’ve seen, this one follows the GUINEA PIG formula to a T: shot on video quality picture, terrible music, and film student directing skill but who gives a fuck because they’re awesome.  The dwarf scientist is trying to figure out a cure for his dying sister’s disease and is contacted by another scientist, Kato, who says he can send a young teenage “guinea pig” girl to experiment on for 3 Million Yen.  Naturally the dwarf scientist accepts and the very next day he has a dead, teenage girl shipped to him in a box, god bless Japan.  Unbeknownst to him though, Kato has accessed his lab notes from some Jurassic-era internet connection database and shows up at the dwarf scientist’s house to blackmail him further.  Quick to think on his little toes, the dwarf springs a trap that saws off Kato’s legs and enables him to make Kato the next guinea pig to experiment on.

The rest of the movie was really confusing for me and that doesn’t say much being that I can’t change a flat tire or figure out how to get rid of dandruff.  The dwarf takes Kato’s head, draws lines all over it like if Pinhead from HELLRAISER didn’t have pins, and connects it to a robotic arm.  After doing a few experiments the dwarf has Kato call his wife/science partner.  She shows up and doesn’t seem too upset that her husband was a decaying head and she also didn’t seem too upset when his robotic arm felt her tit then strangled her to death.  The dwarf then digs out her ribs and another unknown organ, says his sister will never die, she does, then he’s seen as the old withered man sitting in a giant wooden chair with the organ in his lap rambling about all sorts of shit. 

Now let’s cover why these movies are so crazy…..THE GORE!  Like the other films in the GUINEA PIG series, it appears that the entire budget gets sunk into the special effects because they are totally amazing and fun to watch!  In THE ANDROID OF NOTRE DAME the first guinea pig girl who shows up dead in a box gets a healthy dose of scientific intrigue by the dwarf scientist.  He hooks her tongue and ripped off ear up to an electrical contraption and covers her body with electrode pads.  Once he turns on the juice she starts blowing blood out of every hole imaginable and then her hand dislodges from her arm and sprays goopy blood all over the place.  Good start, but I think poor old Kato gets the brunt of horrifying death.  After a buzz saw cuts off his legs and his head separated, the dwarf scientist makes some room on a lab table and props up his head up on it.  With every experiment performed on Kato, more boils explode, more toxic liquid gets forced through his mouth, and more all around unpleasant things happen in the name of science.  Over time he even starts to rot and slough off decaying skin.

I highly recommend tracking down the GUINEA PIG movies if you are into gore gore and more gore.  Over time all six films and the SLAUGHTER SPECIAL will get covered on Sunday Snuff and they are all worthy of a spot on any gore hounds video shelf!  Amazingly enough a lot of people do not know what the hell these movies are so scan craigslist, used record and DVD stores, and even pawnshops.  I have found copies for sale at all of these for cheap!

Blake and Jimmy’s Extreme-O-Gauge!

Realistic Gore: 5 out of 5, gross and gross!  Not everything is realistic, but it’s all wonderful!

Rape: 0 out of 0, you’ll have to watch Dark Knight Rises for that.

Animal Death: 0 out of 5, not on these flicks.

Necrophilia: 0 out of 5, I thought we may get a little taste, but science got in the way!

Torture: 3 out of 5, Kato gets fucked with a lot by the dwarf scientist.
Overall Movie: 3 out of 5, it was all right. Not terrible, not amazing......meh.

NUDE NUNS WITH BIG GUNS

By Blake Redding

*WARNING*

All movies reviewed for SUNDAY SNUFF contain graphic depictions that may include rape, live animals being murdered, and extreme gore.  None of the writers condone such acts we just watch this shit. 

Well kids, with a title like that, you know it’s either going to be a real piece of shit, or the best nunsploitation (yes it’s a genre) flick ever printed to celluloid. Luckily for this guy it was the latter, well…kind of. I will be the first to admit that this is the only nunsploitation movie I have seen so I do not have anything to compare it to. I have however seen my fair share of exploitation and grind house movies so I somewhat know what I’m talking about. This movie borrows a shit ton from Robert Rodriquez’s film making style, most notably MACHETE, right down to the music. Both movies were released in 2010, so the debate on who ripped off who can be waged in chat rooms across the internet, but this reviewer is sticking to the couch completely content on just watching these movies with my tall can of shitty beer. On that note, let’s dig in to NUDE NUNS WITH BIG GUNS!

First a run down on what it’s about. A corrupt clergy is running a massive drug operation with the aid of a local motorcycle club called ‘Los Muertos.’  Daily chores for the drug dealers include using the clergy’s nuns to cut and package the cocaine who they force to work completely naked, except for their habits, minimizing their ability to steal or conceal weapons. One nun, Sister Sarah, is taken to the motorcycle clubhouse where she is kept drugged up and sold for sex in between being beaten and raped on a daily basis. One day God comes to her and commands her to punish the sinners at any and all cost. Sister Sarah escapes and embarks on a bloody crusade against the bikers and corrupt clergy. Let the blood bath begin!

This movie touches on all kinds of movie taboos; Violence, rape, torture, religion, sex, drugs, etc. etc.  All the key ingredients that make a good grind house movie. The violence is almost one hundred percent gun oriented, Priests getting riddled with bullets, nuns losing their heads from shotgun blasts, and even a biker getting his raping dick shot off with a .357 (amazing scene.)  Most of the blood is done with CGI, and it fits perfectly, giving the film that graphic novel look ala SIN CITY and PLANET TERROR. There are also some pretty brutal beatings and even a nun getting strangled to death with a Rosary. The violence and gore is very prevalent throughout the whole movie, making it a bloody good time.

Now, onto the gratuitous nudity and sex! This movie is called NUDE NUNS for a reason; there is a shit load of nude nuns, plain and simple. They have young ones, old ones, hot ones, Mexican ones, ugly ones, you name it. It’s like that scene in FROM DUSK TILL DAWN when Cheech is describing the stripper pussies…but with nuns. There is even a lesbian couple that just can’t seem to keep their clothes on hence; more tits. When the bikers need to interrogate a nun for information, they turn to their vice president that goes by the name of Kickstand. Why the nickname “Kickstand?” Well, I’m glad you asked: Kickstand is a 6’4” 230 pound black man who literally pumps these nuns for information with his monster black…well, you get the idea. After a couple rounds of “interrogations,” even the nun that took a vow of silence is singing about Sister Sarah.

Like I said before, NUDE NUNS WITH BIG GUNS really has that graphic novel style going on. This sort of softens all the horrible things that are happening making it an ideal introductory movie into the world of hardcore and exploitation movies, all while keeping enough of an edge to be featured on SUNDAY SNUFF.  Enjoy all you heathens, and then get your asses to church!

Blake and Jimmy’s Extreme-O-Gauge!

Realistic Gore: 3 out of 5, definitely lots of blood and gore, but done mostly in CGI

Torture:  4 out of 5, these ladies go through hell…..before getting to heaven of course!

Rape: 5 out of 5, Kickstand really gives it to these nuns! We also get a mother raped in front of her daughter and husband. Yikes.

Animal Death: 0 out of 5, none here, so go ahead and show it at the next PETA fundraiser.

Necrophilia: 0 out of 5, Nope! Go watch DEADGIRL for plenty of the necro.
Overall Movie: 3 out of 5, yeah.....that's about it.

 

Bloodsucking Freaks

BLOODSUCKING FREAKS
By Jimmy Squarejaw

*WARNING*

All movies reviewed for SUNDAY SNUFF contain graphic depictions that may include rape, live animals being murdered, and extreme gore.  None of the writers condone such acts we just watch this shit. 

Evening gorehounds and all potential psychos, this week I took a recommendation from a fellow horror movie addict and I must say he has restored my faith in the dreaded “friend recommendation.”  He lent me his Vestron Video VHS copy of the infamous BLOODSUCKING FREAKS and insisted I watch it.  So after arguing with myself and drinking numerous pumpkin ales, which turn your shit into the color of melted butter NOT orange, I decided to go against my instinct and watch it and I must say I couldn’t be happier.

BLOODSUCKING FREAKS is a 1976 exploitation movie that pays one hell of a homage to the godfather of gore Herschell Gordon Lewis’s movie WIZARD OF GORE.  The story is about Sardu, an eccentric stage director who, with the help of his dwarf minion Ralphus, kidnaps women all over New York City.  Once in his possession Sardu either brainwashes his victims and makes them performers in his insane stage show or he tortures and kills them for his own amusement, discarding them into a cage full of feral, naked, cannibal women. 

Soon Sardu decides to abduct Natasha, who is a world-renowned dancer, and begins to brainwash and torture her along with a newspaper critic who gave Sardu’s performances a negative review.  However, like all world-renowned dancers in the United States she fills her mouth with the warm loin of the running back for the local football team named Tom Maverick. When Natasha doesn’t turn up for the daily genital exchange he gets a little curious and contacts the police.  From here the police officer and Tom Maverick try and pierce the veil to Sardu’s mysterious performances and solve the numerous unsolved murders that could be somehow connected.

So up until this point you might be going, “what the fuck, where does the madness fit into all of this and why is it being reviewed for Sunday Snuff?”  Let me assure you that almost every moment in BLOODSUCKING FREAKS has either S & M, brutal torture, naked chicks, or bodyparts being cut off and eaten……the best of which is saved for the end scene.  The gore is great and plentiful.  There is head drilling, body part cutting, body splitting, and all sorts of other shit that kept this little gorehound entertained to the fullest.  There is also an excessive amount of nudity, which doesn’t have anything to do with Sunday Snuff…..I’m just saying.  In fact the original version I watched got reissued on DVD by our good friends at Troma with an additional two minutes restored and a brand new X rating so that’s going on the DVD shelf for sure.

I recommend this whole-heartedly for anyone who likes exploitative movies and put into a time perspective this had to be one hell of a troublemaking movie when it got released in 1976!

Blake and Jimmy’s Extreme-O-Gauge!

Realistic Gore: 3 out of 5, like I said there is a lot of gore, not the most realistic though.

Rape: 0 out of 0, not this week kids.

Animal Death: 0 out of 0, none of that either.

Necrophilia: 1 out of 5, there is a great scene regarding this, but all of the details are concealed.

Torture: 5 out of 5, yep this one was a homerun for torture! 
Overall Movie: 5 out of 5, after watching this I immediately bought the X-Rated troma version on DVD with commentary by Eli Roth!

  

ReGOREgitated Sacrifice

ReGOREgitated SACRIFICE
By Jimmy Squarejaw

*WARNING*

All movies reviewed for SUNDAY SNUFF contain graphic depictions that may include rape, live animals being murdered, and extreme gore.  None of the writers condone such acts we just watch this shit. 

Well kids we’re back again with another thrilling chapter for Sunday Snuff, the weekly post by yours truly and my cohort Blake Redding about extreme cinema.  A little while ago I watched the first entry in the VOMIT GORE TRILOGY titled SLAUGHTERED VOMIT DOLLS and I wasn’t too thrilled.  This week I subjected myself to the second installment titled REgoreGITATED SACRIFICE with little expectations but high hopes that something good might come out of it.  Well to say the least I was floored by this movie and feel completely vindicated from the previous entry in the VOMIT GORE TRILOGY!

For the second flick director Lucifer Valentine put everyone’s favorite burnout, Ameara LaVey, back in action reprising her role as “the chick you feel bad for and would let sleep on your couch until she annoyed the fuck out of you with incoherent ramblings about her shitty life.”  In REgoreGITATED SACRIFICE however she decides to kill herself and the rest of the movie is a hallucinatory amalgam of nightmare images of her own psyche dying off.  This is when we meet the Black Angels of Death who are the protectors of Ameara as she dies.  These lovely twin harbingers of death are none other than The Soska Sisters who directed of one of the worst movies ever made entitled DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK.  Topically the rest of the movie consists of an assortment of women who range from slightly attractive down to female versions of LeBron James being tortured by the twins.

Now the goodies!  The movie is rife with nudity, torture, gore, and extreme violence that feels about as close to being real as possible.  The Soska Sisters are insanely attractive (hence being successful movie directors and having no talent……right?!?) and they do a great job beating the shit out of various women throughout the movie as well as doing a great job sucking on tits, making out, and one of them goes down on a pregnant Ameara. (I’ll definitely watch their second movie!) The special effects are also phenomenal!  A few highlights are a disembowelment of “The Former Miss Lake Washington” by the Soska Sisters, a prosthetic vagina that a tarantula crawls into before it gets stitched up, and the twins having their heads sawed apart from being conjoined at the start of the movie.  Aside from lesbian twin sister scenes and tons of gore, REgoreGITATED SACRIFICE has an excessive amount of vomiting, ladies pissing, piss drinking, vomit drinking, a fat guy who wears a dead octopus crown and one hell of a spooky soundtrack.  Fuck, put some Greek letters on cover of the movie and you have the best sorority hazing video ever made.  This movie is intense and to say the least totally over the top.  It will not be for a lot of people, but for those who enjoy insanity REgoreGITATED SACRIFICE is worth a watch and without spoiling the best ending ever I’ll clue you in on a hint…….a happy ending with streams of blood instead of semen.  Well that kinda spoiled it but whatever you STILL MUST WATCH THIS.

-Enjoy!!!!!   

Blake and Jimmy’s Extreme-O-Gauge!

Realistic Gore: 5 out of 5, the special effects were fucking great!

Rape: 0 out of 0, I think.  Even though everyone is crying I think it’s all consentual!

Animal Death: 0 out of 0, the octopus crown is made from a dead octopus.

Necrophilia: 0 out of 0.  All of the lesbianism is from the living.

Torture: 4 out of 5, puking on people and beating the shit out of people gets a high mark in my book!
Overall Movie: 3 out of 5, it IS a lot better than the first installment, and twin lesbianism makes for a decent watch!

Video Violence

VIDEO VIOLENCE
By Jimmy Squarejaw

*WARNING*

All movies reviewed for SUNDAY SNUFF contain graphic depictions that may include rape, live animals being murdered, and extreme gore.  None of the writers condone such acts we just watch this shit. 

This week we’ll step it back a bit and review a movie about snuff filmmaking, rather than a flat out nightmare movie!  This week is 1987’s shot-on-video classic VIDEO VIOLENCE, written and directed by former video store employee Gary Cohen.

One of my favorite scenarios in horror movies is “the town where everyone is in on it.”  Classics like RIDE WITH THE DEVIL, STUFF, and HALLOWEEN 3 have helped instill an unhealthy fear of “regular folk” and VIDEO VIOLENCE is another great example that has added to my neurosis. The plot revolves around Steven, a video store owner, who is trying to figure out who and why mysterious VHS tapes keep showing up in his return slots containing gruesome video of two shitkickin’ locals torturing and killing people.  Of course the police shrug it off as some newcomer from a big city trying to cause a problem but we slowly realize everyone in the town is in on it.  The Steven’s wife starts to believe him when a tape gets slipped into her purse while she was ordering some bologna at a Mom and Pop grocery store.  With tensions mounting the couple soon chat up a patron in their video store who is in town just visiting her aunt and uncle.  She too finds the town very unnerving and brings up that everyone is obsessed with violence on film, even saying she has seen a film at a party that seemed very real.  But of course on her way out of the video store she is kidnapped.  Will Steven and his wife be able to rescue the lady and flee the town or is it all an elaborate plot to lure them to their own deaths caught on film?

Needless to say I loved this movie.  It held my interest the whole way through and the ending totally delivered the goods!  For a no-budget release the effects were great!  There is lots of gore and mayhem that when coupled with the grit look of “shot-on-video” it gives the movie a really creepy sheen.  Even the acting was great and believable.  The store owner plays being freaked and burnt out fantastically and the shit kicker snuff film makers and all of the locals seem like they really lived the parts, which might be the case the more backwoods these people get!  Basically…….get this movie.  It’s off of the Retro 80’s Horror Collection series with other classics like CANNIBAL COOKOUT and GHOUL SCHOOL and I think my copy, that includes the sequel, was eight dollars!

On a side note, if there is anyone out there that has seen this and loved it, try and track down THE DEAD HATE THEIR LATE FEES.  It’s a no-budget movie made by a guy named Andrew Murga in 2005.  He shot it in the video store he worked at in McMinnville, Oregon and it RULES!!!!

   

Blake and Jimmy’s Extreme-O-Gauge!

Realistic Gore: 3 out of 5, it was better than the end scene of Titanic!
Rape: 1 out of 5, no actual penetration but there is some creeper scenes with tied up women.
Animal Death: 0 out of 0, since they’re considered to be locals they’re safe.
Necrophilia: 0 out of 0, rednecks have limits dammit!
Torture: 3 out of 5, there is a good amount of video footage of people getting tortured and killed.

Overall Movie:  5 out of 5, I loved this movie!  Some might like it, I bet a lot won't like it but go fuck yourself!

Dying: Last Seconds of Life

DYING: LAST SECONDS OF LIFE

By Jimmy Squarejaw

*WARNING*

All movies reviewed for SUNDAY SNUFF contain graphic depictions that may include rape, live animals being murdered, and extreme gore.  None of the writers condone such acts we just watch this shit. 

At least one of the titles in the long line of “caught on film” series is recognizable to the everyday gorehound.  Classics like FACES OF DEATH and TRACES OF DEATH to the more obscure POLICE FILES, FACEZ OF DEATH, WORLD OF DEATH, MANY TABOOS OF DEATH, BANNED IN AMERICA, and HEY DUDE have taken up shelf space in the special interest or horror sections in Mom and Pop video stores since the 70’s.  Stories like having to steal them from video stores, finding them in your friend’s Dad’s gun cabinet, to doing bong rips after school watching them have created enough intrigue for the next generation of gorehounds to track down pristine VHS copies themselves off of eBay.  Even though the internet has created a huge platform for insanely horrible video footage to become a common part of the interweb surfing day, in my opinion nothing compares to having that blown out VHS copy still on the shelf or getting the remastered Blu-Ray in the mail.  With that said there are a lot of lame knockoffs, (come to think of it the FACEZ OF DEATH videos were fuckin’ lame) that utilize a combination of previously seen footage, historical film, and crime scene footage that tried to capitalize on the home video market boom.  And DYING: LAST SECONDS OF LIFE, directed by Countess Victoria Bloodhart, falls into that shit hole niche.

I knew I was in for a bore-fest when the movie started by showing a scene from MONDO CANE (review here) but it didn’t have the swingin’ soundtrack.  So I sat through the New Guinea mother holding her baby while eating maggots off of a corpse…..AGAIN…..with my finger poised on the FF button, thinking this might be a lost cause and I was kinda right.  The rest of the movie shows uninteresting footage hosted by a monotone narrator that occasionally has a good quip.  I think the worst scenes shown were from a mass execution of drug addicts in China, which was bad, but not anxiety all night bad.  Other than that DYING: LAST SECONDS OF LIFE was comprised of scenes from Nazi Germany, tribes from New Guinea having funerals, marriages, and trying on seashells to cover their cocks, and other crap that I can’t remember.   

Just take a pass on this one kids.  Although the video cover looks like a badass Emerson, Lake, and Palmer album, it’s not worth the time.  Instead pick up any of the classic titles mentioned above or just hop onto any the local computer systems used in the America today to view all kinds of hell caught on film.          

 

Blake and Jimmy’s Extreme-O-Gauge!

Realistic Gore: 1 out of 5, the Chinese execution was pretty bad, as in film quality.  Can’t see shit but you get the point.

Rape: 0 out of 0.

Animal Death: 0 out of 0.

Necrophilia: 0 out of 0

Torture: 1 out of 5, a guy gets cut up by razors for a tribal tattoo.  That’s about it y’all.
Overall Movie: 1 out of 5, this sucked but it might be a good gift for an early teen to get some training wheels exposure to death.

 

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Dream Home

DREAM HOME

By Blake Redding

It’s no big secret that the vast continent of Asia has lent the horror genre some of the most extreme movies known to man.  But in the 2000’s after the success of RINGU and the American remake THE RING, the market got flooded with watered down, rehashed ghost stories to capitalize on a the craze.  So the avid horror and gore enthusiast had to once again go hunting through the shit to find the gems.  One of these gems is the 2010 horror flick from Hong Kong, DREAM HOME.  Like the taboo raping epic AUDITION, DREAM HOME is a solid story with insane gore and violence that really sets the bar high for other contemporary Asian releases and it confirms yet again that there is really nothing too taboo or ‘over the line’ for some of these tiny directors. Let’s get to it you filthy animals.

DREAM HOME is about a young woman who will do ANYTHING to secure the perfect flat in the cutthroat housing crisis in Hong Kong. It has everything she could ever want and it is a killer deal, unfortunately, the deal falls through and the current owners decide to keep it. Well, it’s a good thing she is a psychopath or she might have been up a fog covered Chinese creek without a bamboo paddle.  She hacks and slashes her way through the current residents in the high rise and their loved ones. Shit gets messy real quick….

Right off the bat we are treated to a man with a zip tie secured tightly around his neck. His captor gives him one option to free himself, an exacto knife. The tie is so tight that he has no choice but to tear into his neck meat in order to free himself. It’s a bloody mess and will make you get that special feeling in your jugular. This scene pretty much sets the tone for the gore that is going to be in this movie. Oh hey, there is a pregnant woman hanging out in the house she must be safe! Nope, she gets her goddamn head vacuumed sealed like a filet of Jian Carp (Asian fishin’ reference folks.)! When her husband comes home and finds her, he is beat with a golf club and his head is smashed on the coffee table.  It’s actually a very disturbing scene. After this, the blood just keeps on flowing.  We are treated to a guy with a broken glass bong stabbed through his neck while his buddy gets his guts knifed out. The chick they were trying to bang gets her head smashed into the toilet bowl. Sorry that foursome with three guys didn’t work out bro bros! This murderous gal even has the audacity to break in on a couple having sex and castrate the guy right in front of his lay. She doesn’t get to scream for long though, our heroin jams a 2x4 into her mouth and silences her for good.

If you are new to Sunday Snuff and looking for a good ‘starter movie’ into the extreme horror movie genre, this one is definitely not for you, or the faint of heart. It’s violent and gory as all hell. It is shot well and the story is actually quite good. Like many other Asian horror flicks, it jumps around a lot so multiple viewings make it that much better. If you are into the sadistic and the macabre like I am, go ahead and pick this bad boy up and enjoy the show.

Blake and Jimmy’s Extreme-O Gage!

Realistic Gore: 5 out of 5, VERY realistic looking violence and gore…..well played China.

Rape: 2 out of 5.  Some minor heaving petting on a passed out and topless drunk girl.

Animal Death: 0 out of 5.  I did see some dead ducks hanging up in the street market if that counts.

Necrophilia: 0 out of 5. So close, but the girl got killed minor seconds after sexy time.

Torture: 5 out of 5.  Having to cut into your own neck with a knife can’t be fun for anyone! Also being suffocated to death with a vacuum seal isn’t the ideal way to die.
Overall Movie: 4 out of 5, this is a great movie, but there are parts that lag.  Definitely worth a few views!

 

Police Files: Uncut Volume One

POLICE FILES: UN-CUT

By Jimmy Squarejaw

*WARNING*

All movies reviewed for SUNDAY SNUFF contain graphic depictions that may include rape, live animals being murdered, and extreme gore.  None of the writers condone such acts we just watch this shit. 

The “Shock-u-Mentary” genre is one of my favorites when it comes to extreme movies. Having a front row seat to view the sickest shit available on film, legally, speaks to the depraved voyeur in me. I grew up trying to figure out how to rent all of the FACES OF DEATH videos without my parents noticing or the video store noticing that I removed all of the “Warning-Adults Only” labels from the Gorgon V/H/S boxes. After I got all of these viewed, which was quite the task, I started actively seeking out everything I could find that was similar to the insanity of FACES OF DEATH. Every now and then I was able to snag movies like TRACES OF DEATH and INHUMANITIES but the video store eventually caught onto me. Then one day my Dad brought home the video POLICE FILES: UNCUT from U.P.V. Entertainment. He gave it a watch then left it on the counter with a note that said, WATCH THIS. I’ve been actively looking for a copy, without success, for about fifteen years to the point of it had almost become an urban legend in my head. I FINALLY found a copy of POLICE FILES for sale just a few months ago and recently cracked open thirty three beers to celebrate watching it again.

POLICE FILES: UNCUT is setup as a collection of video footage from the annals of police departments all across the country. It begins in a meeting with police officers talking about how hard their jobs are, how suicidal most of them are, and how much most of them drink, so basically it’s like Thanksgiving every year at Nick and Aaron Carter’s house. Sure it gives a good inside look to the stresses of the job……but it also drags ass and I hate listening to people complain about that shit. If being a cop is so insane, quit and be a hazelnut farmer. After their yap we finally get to the good stuff; shootouts, crime scene footage, and all sorts of wacky scenes of brutality. Some choice segments are the bomb technician getting blown apart after cutting the wrong wire, a drive-by shooting during a Mafioso wedding (Mama Mia!), and a news crew capturing an escaped mental patient stabbing a nurse in the neck with a screwdriver before being gunned down.

Then I start to get that bad feeling that most, if not all of these scenes are staged, which they are. I guess my juvenile mind managed to be tricked when I first watched POLICE FILES: UNCUT so many years ago but I would be lying if I said it wasn’t an entirely entertaining watch regardless. Most of the staged scenes had to have been shot in the late 70’s and 80’s judging by their haircuts and clothes. Also a lot of the dialogue and acting was absolutely ridiculous. My favorite example of this is a scene shot in a courtroom with a captured killer who looks like the Soup Nazi. The heavily stereotyped criminal videotaped raping and murdering his victims, which the judge insists on playing in the courtroom as evidence. The “killer” just rolls his hands over his face during the viewing, breathing deeply, and then the camera zooms in and freezes on his face as he slightly turns to look menacing. Really stupid shit, but I loved it!

Truthfully, this movie totally sucks and unless you enjoy cheesedick-schlock like I do, take a pass!  I’d be interested to know anything about this movie though being that it seems to be insanely rare, has no barcode and pretty much doesn’t exist on the Interweb.  In fact I can’t even find a picture of it so I have to use my shit camera for the image.

Blake and Jimmy’s Extreme-O-Gauge!

Realistic Gore: 1 out of 5, for the most part the entire thing is fake.

Rape: 2 out of 5, although fake-the scene of the filmed rape and murder is kinda disturbing.

Animal Death: 0 out of 0.

Necrophilia: 0 out of 0. 

Torture: 0 out of 0. Except for the poor bastard that watches this movie.
Overall Movie: I'll give it a 2 out of 5 for nostalgia, but truthfully most of the scenes are fake and ridiculous!