100 Tears

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. 

This little gem has been on my radar for a while now, Amazon was always suggesting it to me, and it seemed to be on everyone’s “most disturbing movies” lists.  The cover depicts a demented looking clown carrying the biggest meat cleaver I have ever seen. SOLD! Lucky for me, this bad boy just so happens to be streaming on Netflix and the better half is at work. I have read multiple reviews and the consensus was pretty mixed, mostly leaning on the shitty side. One thing that all the reviews had in common was that the movie was excessively gory, again…SOLD!! Crack a tall can grab the hollowed out light bulb and let’s get into it.

The plot is as basic as they come with a twist that I saw coming a mile away.  Two reporters are investigating a local serial killer known as the ‘Tear Drop Killer.’ His MO is drawing a teardrop of blood on the wall after killing his victim. The reporters soon discover that the killer is a clown in the local circus. Throw in detectives who are so fuckin’ stupid they couldn’t catch the Sticky Bandits in HOME ALONE and you have the premise for 100 TEARS.

This flick may have one of the highest body counts I have ever seen. According to the Sticky Red blog, there are over 34 kills in the 92-minute run time, and every single one is unique and bloody as hell. The clown carries around that monster cleaver and kills people in every way imaginable with it including chopping off heads and limbs and a lot of guttings with realistic looking entrails flying everywhere.  They may have just been some sausage ropes covered in fake blood, but it was pretty convincing. During the course of the movie, we discover that one of the clown’s potential victims is actually his long lost daughter, dun dun dun! She then joins him in his killing spree and her shining moment comes in the way of a scene where she rips into some guy’s stomach and chokes him to death with his own intestines, the Oscar is in the bag.

As you can tell the movie is packed full of people getting chopped in half and just straight up mangled by this clown. There had to have been gallons of fake blood used in this production. That monster cleaver chops up heads sideways and crossways and of course lops them off right at the neck.  And what killer would pass up stomping on peoples skulls as well, spilling their brains all over the floor. There are a couple groovy scenes of torture where girls are shackled to a rack and their limbs are chopped off while they are still alive and screaming just like real life. 100 TEAR’s plot is literally just molded around the kills and I thought that was pretty awesome.

Usually with this amount of gore and violence taking up a good percentage of the budget, there is not much money left for other key elements, such as casting and cinematography and that holds true for 100 TEARS. The acting and the script are just plain bad!  The clown does a good job as the menacing killer; he doesn’t say a word the whole movie and that works to his favor. The daughter on the other hand is super annoying and a horrible actress. Think Baby from HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES times a million.  I’m pretty sure most of the actors were just friends of the director and were doing him a favor. The lighting and over all look of the movie is pretty poor as well. I don’t’ think there was any post production done regarding the visual aspects of the movie. Most of the time it looked like it was recorded on an iPhone but all of my self recorded sex tapes looked better than this and this movie left me bonerless! How about the gore and effects you ask? They are actually pretty great. They are all practical and done with a good attention to detail. These guys set out to make a GORE movie and on that level, they are very successful.

100 TEARS was made for us gore fans. If they could have cut out all the plot and dialogue and just made a 30 minute kill reel, they probably would have made one of the best gore flicks ever. If you like your horror with substance and meaning, 100 TEARS is not for you. But if you just want to dull your senses and zone out with some gratuitous blood and violence, go ahead and give it a watch, you won’t be disappointed.  

Blake and Jimmy's Extreme-O-Gauge 

Realistic Gore: 5 out of 5, this flick was all about the gore!

Rape: 0 out of 5, that would be WAY out of their acting range.  

Animal Death:  0 out of 0, Nope, not today.

Necrophilia:  0 out of 0, only in his mind.

Torture: 4 out of 5, this clown is fucked up!

Overall Movie: 2 out of 5, it's great for the gore hounds, but that's about all it has going for it.