Thriller: A Cruel Picture

By Freddy Funbuns

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You don't listen do you asshole

Don't be a punk all your life

Someone's gonna sort you out

They'll try to make a man out of you

~Chrissie Hynde

Bad Boys Get Spanked

Pretenders, album ‘II’ 1981 

Revenge is one of the oldest themes in existence.  It’s painted on the walls of the Pyramids, depicted in the Bible, Qur’an, Mission Impossible, and the basis for the hit album Significant Other by seven-string guitar indie rock pioneers Limp Bizkit.  It’s also the only redeeming theme to horror movies that alleviates fat white people walking out of theaters blubbing, ‘Well the cinematography looked great but I just wish such-and-such got what they were due by so-and-so!”  The Terminal and Spanglish come to mind for contemporary masterpieces that represent this sub-genre. But before you blow your load on Tom Hanks and Adam Sandler’s rape/revenge flicks one of the best and early entries on the Totem Pole of Rape/Revenge flicks is the 1973 Swedish Exploitation-fest Thriller: A Cruel Picture.  

Thriller: A Cruel Picture, like I said before right?!?!,  starts out slow.  I was lit when I watched it last night for the second time since 2007 and, FUCK, IT, DRAGS!  I almost threw my drink at my TV before I realized it’s about a mute girl named Frigga- that’s why there isn’t any dialogue for twenty minutes.  I was all like, ‘what’s with this chick bro?!?!?’  Well it turns out Frigga was raped at a young age and the emotional fallout resulted in her being mute.  I quickly recanted my drunken abuse towards my TV and settled in.  Unfortunately Frigga’s bad luck didn’t end with a John Phillips’ type family dynamic, and on a quiet stroll in the country side Frigga got picked up by the total hunk, aka heroin peddling super pimp, named Tony.  

Tony makes like an octopus and locks his suckers all over his well endowed captive and  gets her hooked on Heroin-I mean naturally why wouldn’t he IDIOT?!?  It wouldn’t seem so bad if he was a music producer looking to market a big boobed European chick wanting to record an album between 1989 and 1994 but unfortunately Tony had ‘drug slave prostitute’ in mind for Frigga instead of Grunge heroin protege.  Frigga gets rung through the unwaxed asshole of European prostitution for a while, not the best and she even gets to dabble with a gal who has boobs as awful looking as the neck of a retired pelican who smoked all of it’s life.  Lucky her!  But, like all red blooded ladies, Frigga eventually gets fed up with this B-Team prostitution shit and starts taking race car lessons, gun clinics, and Martial Arts.  Sure a girl might get peeved after her eye gets cut out with a scalpel, but I think Frigga’s turning point was from repeated butt sex and pelican neck boob sucking. Mental note-wax your assholes people because fuck they look awful! 

So revenge. Right?!?!?!  Word around the pimp circles was the one eyed bitch started killing the shit out of clients.  Spoiler alerts? Nah, this is where I pull out and unload on your stomach.  Thriller: A Cruel Picture  is a great flick.  It does start slow but the mix of brutal violence, rape, and Nordic gusto entertains until the end.  The super duper slow motion scenes, thought out by director Bo Arne Vibenius, when Frigga starts piling bodies up are visual icing on the bloody rape cake and are a great idiosyncrasy setting aside Thriller: A Cruel Picture from other Rape/Revenge flicks like Goonies or 12 Years a Slave. 

There is all sorts of interweb shit all over the place about the production of this movie, it’s impact, and influence in contemporary cinema, so I don’t need to repeat it.  I will say it’s a very entertaining watch. There is enough awful for anyone interested in awful so if y’all get a bug up your ass, or a finger, or a boob, give Thriller: A Cruel Picture a watch. Word of the wise though, DON’T get the They Call Her One Eye version.  It has all of the penetration cut out of it. Wah Wah!

Junk Films

By Jimmy Squarejaw
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When FACES OF DEATH was released in 1978, it was originally produced for the death hungry population of Japan by an Italian documentarian who wanted to up the ante a little in the mondo/bizarro/documentary genre.  In the land of the rising sun it was originally titled JUNK, and according to the commentary on the FACES OF DEATH 30^th ANNIVERSARY release it eventually grossed more than STAR WARS at the box office in 1977.  (Why the FUCK do I live in America?)  In the tradition of the JUNK movie series Tsurisaki Kiyotaka, director of OROZCO THE EMBALMER, compiled a collection of his psychotic short films and titled it JUNK FILMS which was released in the states a little while ago by Massacre Video.  Shall we?

JUNK FILMS opens in India (I think) with a few nice shots of an incredibly overcrowded tent town full of cripples, the impoverished, and amputees; it really sets a nice theme of “hey, life can be total shit.”  Scenes from Tsurisaki’s ambulance chasing days follow including first hand aftermath footage of, amongst others: a guy who got into a motor scooter accident and looks like a skin chalupa crammed full of guts, a lady stabbed to death with an eerie ceiling fan lingering above her, and a guy with his head split open displaying a plethora of webbed meninges everywhere.  One scene in this grouping of shorts I particularly like is a scene in an apartment above an alley where a guy has passed away by what seems to be natural causes while surrounded by his family and a lot of confused emergency service crew looking at each other trying figure out how to get this dude out of the apartment two stories up.  Take note kids, a lot of people don’t realize when you die you have to be transported to either a funeral home or morgue before you turn into a heap of jellied human jambalaya hosting a maggot orgy.  So the next time you think about shooting up and jerking off with a bag around your head, don’t fucking do it in your attic unless you weigh 80 pounds!  Moving along.  

One of Tsurisaki’s more elaborate shorts included in JUNK FILMS is of the Vegetarian Festival on Phuket Island, Thailand.  If you haven’t partied at the vegetarian festival you ain’t livin.’  These guys wail the fuck out of themselves on the back with blades until they split open like a hyman being ripped apart by a Los Angeles Laker.  After that stunt they stick guns, bars, and swords through their faces and follow in procession through the city.  I predict in 30 years this shall replace the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and we can all kill ourselves at any point before that happens.  Really, all we are missing is keg stands, twerking, and high fives and we got one hell of a vegetarian party!  But seriously this stuff is fucked up to watch and these people must have balls the size of skulls! Too bad that’s probably the reason smite was delivered to Phuket shortly after these films were shot in the form of a tsunami created by the righteous Pat Robertson and Jesus. 

The last scene in JUNK FILMS drove me fucking crazy and I really wish I didn’t ever have to watch it again.  Taking place in a nicer than nice looking crematorium, a group of Japanese people in their 30’s surrounds an urn containing the cremated remains of their buddy.  Instead of their brain using a two second buffer to restrain some of their idiotic comments, this group of hip folks just spout out the fucking stupidest shit for twenty minutes about death, and dying, and bones, and blah fuckin’ blah fuckin’ blah!  I cannot believe no one has ever pointed out to them how ANNOYING they sound as they try to weigh out life’s ultimate mysteries!  I bet Mr. Cremated Remains committed suicide because listening to these introspective morons for a short amount of time made me want to swallow a bee hive and ask a bear to fuck it out of me!

Other than that scene, I enjoyed JUNK FILMS quite a bit.  Tsurisaki did a good job making every segment interesting; whether it was with editing, camera effects, spooky music, or the subject matter itself, JUNK FILMS stands apart from the otherwise distended corpse known as the death film genre. There are a lot of scenes in this film I didn’t chat about so don’t let my brief synopsis throw you, it’s well worth picking up!

For Purchasing go to 

http://massacrevideo.com/site/shop/junk-films-standard-dvd/

Blake and Jimmy’s Extreme-O-Gauge!

Violence/Gore: 5 out of 5, it’s a death film for real.

Rape: 0 out of 0

Animal Death: 0 out of 0, a nice reprieve from the usual animal massacre in death vids.

Necrophilia: 0 out of 0.

Torture: 0 out of 0, no one is seen tortured but I bet the family of the dead guy in an urn surrounded by his fucking moron friends at the funeral home were slightly tortured listening to those fucking idiots.

Overall Movie: 4 out of 5, very nice, very good, very well!

Men Behind the Sun/Man Behind the Sun

By Jimmy Squarejaw

Japanese Unit 731 is one of those historical atrocities that seem almost too insane to be real.  Reminiscent of the horrifying human experimentation at Auschwitz performed by Joseph Mengele, the crimes against humanity committed at Unit 731 are enough to make you squirm at night and be thankful to not be anywhere near the Pinfang district of Harbin, in the largest Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo during the Sino-Japanese War and World War II.  Whatever the fuck that means but thanks Wikipedia.  There are a few flicks about Unit 731 out there in movie land, the first being T.F. Mous’ Chinese exploitation flick MEN BEHIND THE SUN.

MEN BEHIND THE SUN did not make me tingle when I first popped it in the ol’ DVD player.  The production looked cheap, the dubbing was TERRIBLE (worse than that Martian-faced mutant Nikki Minaj trying to lip-synch live), and the Chinese writing on the screen during different scenes did not have subtitles so I felt like I was missing some possible points of reference or at least in the dark about the locations of scenes. 

The story follows a group of kids who are brought into Unit 731 to train under the Japanese Army.  They are subjected to consistent beating and will breaking by Lt. General Shiro Ishii, as well as other ranking officials that I never found the names for.  We also follow along the story of Lt. General Ishii as he tries to create a new bomb that can spread bubonic plague carrying fleas. After mingling with some naked female servants and getting really pissed he throws a ceramic pot that explodes all over the place inadvertently leading to inspire his “greatest idea.” Lt. General Ishii unveils to his solders the plans for a low temperature ceramic bomb that can spread the fleas without killing them in the process. Hurrah!  

There are plenty of horrific gore scenes in MEN BEHIND THE SUN covering executions, torture, and creepy human science experiments.  Numerous splayed open cadavers that were evidently operated on while still living, it’s called vivisection kids, are displayed throughout the film.  The movie also frequents the dank, hauntingly grim crematory run by a kooky old bastard who’s job consists of carting around bodies and body parts, stacking and propping up cadavers, and of course mass burning of said bodies and parts.  A really terrible scene, and from my understanding quite the controversial scene in it’s day, is the realistic looking autopsy scene on a naked lil’ local mute boy.  During the movie he becomes friends with the Japanese youth army and gets tricked into coming into an operating room full of giggling doctors in surgical garb.  After they strip the kid and bop his dick a few times, all while giggling, they lay him on a table, bop his dick again, and gas him to sleep.  While sleeping the crack pot team of doctors cut the kid open and remove his guts.  I gotta say I’m curious how the special effects were setup because someone did their homework and made this scene realistic.

MEN BEHIND THE SUN is rife with other torture scenes and war crime violence.  One notable scene where the doctors decide to kill a guy with sound decibels leads to his ass prolapsing and blowing out across the chamber floor resembling a creature from John Carpenter’s THING.  For the animal lover, like me, there is a horrible scene where a cat gets thrown into a pen of rats and ripped apart.  I’m not sure how real the carnage was during this scene but the filmmaker’s brings it up a notch in a later scene when the entire room full of rats is set on fire-and this is very real and very hard to watch. There is A LOT of footage of the lil’ creatures scurrying everywhere squeaking with flames roiling off of them!

I would have never thought this flick was as crazy as it was off of my first impression.  After watching it I completely understand why it has such a crazy reputation.  I'm sure there are some historical inaccuracies and I encourage people to look into the real and completely fucking crazy accounts of Unit 731.  Truth really is stranger than fiction, and in this case it's a lot more disturbing.

Blake and Jimmy’s Extreme-O-Gauge!

Gore: 4 out of 5, there’s a lot of fodder for the gore whore.

Rape: 0 out of 0, few close calls but no.

Animal Death: 5 out of 5, I think the cat lived but those poor little rats…….sad!

Necrophilia: 0 out of 0, not here.

Torture: 5 out of 5, this movie is based around the torture of thousands of people.

Overall Movie: 4 out of 5, a unexpectedly good watch.

SAVAGE VENGEANCE

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 I’ll chat about the illegitimate sequel to I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE called SAVAGE VENGEANCE.  This little shot-on-video gem is directed by the shot-on-video maestro Donald Farmer and comes in at a staggering 65 minutes.  It’s one of the releases I picked up a few months back from the Uneasy Archive and I’ll say this right up front, I love this flick.

The movie starts off with bang, a gangbang that is!  A group of four sleazy looking guys just happen across Jennifer, who is reading a magazine peacefully on the side of a river in the middle of nowhere.  Well, just like in real life guys who roll in groups of four act on their impulses and decide to rape the complete stranger.  Now unlike I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, these guys keep all of their clothes on and all of hers except a shirt rip to expose her boobs.  They have their way with her and split the scene probably to go buy Metallica’s boxset, Live Shit: Binge & Purge! 

After the rape we get a “5 years later” screen that leads us to being smack dab in the middle of a college class where the rape and subsequent murder of all the rapists is a hot topic on the discussion block.  As the situation is discussed with the early 90’s college students the movie bounces through quick little clips of Jennifer killing all the rapists.  After class Jennifer, who looks great and not the slightest bit damaged, plans to go on a little trip with her friend Sam instead of finals and journey off to another rape ready cabin.  Of course the young, bright, women attract the attention of another group of scumbag rapists who work and hang around the local convenience mart. These fellas track Sam down first to rape and kill, then they set their sights on Jennifer who gets another vaginal dose of pungent smelling loin juice.  Well, that’s when the “Savage” comes into the story.  Of course she makes her way through the group, you'll have to see for yourself, and the finale scene involving a chainsaw is AWESOME. 

This is a great flick for anyone who digs shot-on-video movies, other than that most of the people watching it would turn it off.  I love the pace and runtime of the movie, not because I wanted it to be over but because there is literally no down time during the movie and it entertained the shit out of me!  The movie is available on DVD but it’s out of print and there are a few different VHS versions out there.  For those of you who can track it down pick it up, it’s worth it! 

Blake and Jimmy’s Extreme-O-Gauge!

Realistic Gore: 2 out of 5, low budget effects but there are some goodies in there.

Rape: 3 out of 5, yes getting raped by 7 or 8 guys in one movie is a lot.  But it’s all pretty tame and the only shock is a few sets of boobs.

Animal Death: 0 out of 0.

Necrophilia: 0 out of 0, but that would be cool if Jennifer raped one of the corpses!

Torture: 2 out of 5, little bit of torturous revenge.

Overall Movie:  4 out of 5, entertaining low budget flick but everyone might not be a fan.

I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE! 2010

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 movie, along with LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, are the two remakes that I really thought were going to be big steaming piles of elephant semen.  I just couldn’t get my head around how they could do the originals justice.  After watching it though I became a believer.  I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE follows the original closely adding a few things but also lacking a little in a few areas.  The cover also has more underwear going into the main character's ass so there is always that!

Like the original, the 2010 remake begins with the main character Jennifer heading out of the big city to spend sometime at a rental cabin in a rural buttfuck hee-haw town.  She pulls into a gas station where she enchants all of the local guy’s groins while managing to embarrass the main gas jockey Johnny after a terribly executed pickup line.  Jennifer then heads on down to the cabin and makes herself at home with a liquor cabinet full of wine and a sack of doobie puff sticks.  The gas station hooligans show up one night and start in on the humiliation with cameras in hand.  The story starts to differ from the original when Jennifer breaks free from her tormentors and goes tearing through the woods screaming for help until she comes upon two hunters, one is the kooky old timer who rented her the cabin and the other is the local sheriff.  Sheriff Storch, played amazingly by Andrew Howard, leads her back to the cabin to confront the roustabouts but instead he finds an empty house with used marijuana cigarettes and enough booze to kill Anna Nicole Smith…….again.  The Sheriff starts in on the lectures and then to her surprise lets the group of gas station jerks back into the house.  Well shit, they’re all in on it and Jennifer’s holes are going to pay the price.  Now comes the rape and the movie switches back to the similar storyline as the original.

The rape scenes were definitely the content that got compromised in the remake for obvious commercial reasons but it’s still violent and pretty shocking for a movie sold at Wal-Mart.  I think the added character of Sheriff Storch adds a hell of a lot to the movie though.  He’s fucking vile and when his wife and young daughter are brought into the storyline it creates a whole new kind of tension in the movie.  And the last thing that I think was really amazing about the movie was the ending.  Yes, if you think about it too much you will find the impracticality of how Jennifer can capture, move, and then setup the rapist gang in different scenarios of torturous revenge.  But if you just sit back and enjoy it really is a brutal ending that is entertaining as hell!  One part of the remake that didn't resonate with me was the main group of gas station bullies compared to the original movie.  There was just something more sleazy and realistic to the group in the original that these guys didn't capture.  

For me the perfect blend would be the original I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE storyline, characters, and raw brutality, but add that kooky character Sheriff Storch, and use the big budget violence of the remake.  Definitely worth a watch and you can find the combo pack of the original and remake with all of the extra features on Blu-Ray or DVD for super cheap. 

Blake and Jimmy’s Extreme-O-Gauge!

Realistic Gore: 4 out of 5, it’s not through the whole movie but the ending more than makes up for it.

Rape: 3 out of 5, yes it’s brutal but not as insane as the original.

Animal Death: 0 out of 0.

Necrophilia: 0 out of 0

Torture: 3 out of 5, not as rough as I’ve seen but there are still a few torturous goodies in their.

Overall Movie:  3 out of 5, good flick that has it’s merits but it doesn’t hold up to the original.

I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE! (1978)

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.

There are a few movies in the “Extreme” spectrum that I would consider to be cornerstones in the genre.  Although it’s a completely subjective list, and some of these movies might even seem somewhat tame now but upon their releases each one bore a hole through your senses and raised the bar to what people could get away with on film.  I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE and LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT for me are in this group of movies and this week I’ll be chatting and making disrespectful jokes about I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE.

I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (aka DAY OF THE WOMAN) is part of the rape revenge genre that came to fruition in the 70’s.  It’s a story about Jennifer, who is a writer who rents a nice lake cabin for the summer to write her first novel.  When she rolls into town from the big city she stops for directions and gets gas at the local octane dispensary, known today as a gas station.  Just like in every small town the attendant and his goofy cohorts that are playing some kind of “throw the knife in the ground” game in the background can’t help themselves to eye fuck every inch of her body.  Jennifer didn’t seem too put off by this and continues onto the lake cabin to settle in.  Later on the town retard Matthew, known today as developmentally disabled, shows up to deliver Jennifer her grocery order that she called in.  Matthew rounds out the four members of the local rape union of Kent, Pennsylvania that we'll see a lot more of soon.  

Over the next few days all of the goons start playing little games with her like speeding around the lake while Jennifer is swinging in a hammock writing, or sneaking around her cabin at night making yippy noises.  This  harmless fun escalates quickly when two of the goons start circling Jennifer while she’s relaxing in a canoe on the lake, tie her boat to theirs and race off into some secluded part of the woods where Johnny, the octane attendant, is waiting.  Well kids from here it just goes south.  Johnny makes himself known as the leader in this group of guys and makes the other two pin Jennifer down while he strips totally naked and rapes her.  Then a little later on Andy, the suspender-wearing hillbilly who plays a harmonica has the other guys pin her down and rapes her.  Then even later the quartet of backwoods rapists find Jennifer back at her cabin and try to make Matthew, the special needs grocer, rape her.  He does but story of his life he can’t cum. Wah wah. So then Stanley, the last of the four, decides he’s wants a hummer instead of intercourse with Jennifer's bread bowl full of man chowder but gets all pissed off instead and beats the living hell out of her.  Whoa whoa whoa, HEY WHOA HEY!  Now that is where the line is crossed!  The other guys have to break Stanley off of her because beating the girl is not cool, only repetitive rape is cool.  They calm him down and split the scene in haste, but Johnny figures it's not the best idea to leave witnesses and makes Matthew go back to kill her off on his own.  Sounds logical to trust some one with the mental capacity of Mariah Carey to go kill off a girl who they all just raped.  Of course Matthew can’t so instead he wipes blood on the knife like he did kill her and goes back to the group who is waiting in a getaway boat. 

After some time the group of improv rapists starts wondering why no one has discovered Jennifer’s rotting dead corpse in the cabin.  The safe thing to do is a drive by in their boat and realize she’s alive when they see her lounging outside.  Awkward!  Well shit now what?!  Slowly but surely Jennifer gets her strength back and cleverly stalks the group plotting her revenge.  And this is where I bow out of the synopsis so I drop any spoilers!  But just know this, revenge is best served in a sudsy bathtub!

I love I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE!  It’s intense, brutal, and has lots of social commentary for the time period.  Yes, it is a gritty independent film but this adds a realistic quality to the movie.  The no frills rape and revenge scenes have a creepy vibe to them too that definitely churns the stomach.  Although I do prefer LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, only because David Hess is my all time favorite villain and his character Krug is my all time favorite character in movies, I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE is an incredible watch and I recommend it to anyone who hasn’t seen it!  In the weeks to come we'll also tackle the amazing but illegitimate sequel SAVAGE VENGEANCE and the incredible remake from 2010! 

Also, if you’re watching it with a group of people that has never seen it before do me a favor, at the 33:09 time mark yell out, “Did he miss?” and watch how many friends you make!

Blake and Jimmy’s Extreme-O-Gauge!

Gore: 2 out of 5, like I said the violence has no real frills, but that’s part of it’s charm!

Rape: 5 out of 5,  this is a great first date kinda movie!

Animal Death: 0 out of 0.

Necrophilia: 0 out of 0, I’m sure parts of Jennifer died during some of the forced intercourse, but not every part!

Torture: 4 out of 5, between the rape and revenge there is some serious torture going on!

Overall Movie: 4 out of 5, classic flick but for me LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT holds the 5 
out of 5.

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!

  

Snuff

Review 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 I had a sincere moment where I reflected upon a lot of the bad choices I’ve made in my life; getting a tattoo inspired by Travis Barker, going to see the Family Values Tour in 2002, and smoking PCP before I watched KICKBOXER Part 2, 3, and 4. But as they say, "it’s better to go through life making mistakes rather than having regrets." And watching the 1976 movie SNUFF sure as hell was a mistake. On the plus side it was a whole hell of a lot better than the shit hemorrhage known as PROJECT X, the god awful yawn fest titled DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK, or the gift to teenage suicide known as THE HANGOVER!

SNUFF is a run to capitalize on the hysteria created by the Manson Family in the late 60’s early 70’s. Short story short, it’s about a female biker gang doing drugs and killing the hell out of an assortment of people under the Svengali figure known only as Satan, pronounced Sah-Than. This group of uninhibited biker-women go through shopkeepers, movie directors, and distinguished gentleman taking a squeak in the local Brazilian Airport bathrooms. By the end of SNUFF I was exhausted trying to keep track during horrible dubbing, tons of dialogue scenes that take place almost off camera, and terrible unrealistic violence. Then all of the sudden at the non-thrilling climax SNUFF switches gears and totally abandons the entire story thus far and turns to the camera crew shooting the final scene of the movie we were watching. A guy, I’m thinking the director, coerces a young gal on staff to start getting it on with him in front of the whole camera crew. Then he pins the sexed up girl down, cuts her finger off and guts her, amazingly enough pulling out her heart from where her uterus is as well as all of her intestines. My guess is SNUFF was shit and probably titled something completely different then someone, guessing an executive producer, had a brilliant idea to incorporate a scene that “could be a girl dying on camera” and re-titled it SNUFF.

Now, I wasn’t totally against SNUFF, but I thought I was going to watch some batshit movie involving who knows what! The movie itself is a great entry into 70’s cult cinema but it capitalizes on the title and the mystery around it leaving this viewer totally let down on any and every extreme possibility. Know this, if you pick SNUFF up buy it as if you were buying some cheese-dick 70’s exploitation movie not a gritty entry into the hellish world of extreme movies! For a hell of a lot more info look this movie up on wikipedia, very informative!

Blake and Jimmy's Extreme-O-Gauge!

Rape: 0 out of 0Realistic Gore: 1 out of 5, there is shitty, unconvincing special effects up until the end! And then the effects go from shitty to just bad!
Animal Death: 0 out of 0
Torture: 1 out of 5, one guy is whipped, some chicks toes are cut, and the end girl is ripped apart. But my 13 year old cousin could make something look more convincing.
Necrophilia: 0 out of 0
Overall Movie: 1 out of 5, I might, maybe, someday watch this again. But for the most part is SUCKED.