Heads rolling, limbs flying and blood sprouting like water fountains. I've been running a marathon through the gross last weekend and the start of this week, shockumentaries and horror films humanity has been doomed to forget. I thought I had already seen all the bloodsplatter this mad world had to offer, but now I see how wrong I was! Reviews and Titles for the vast array of terrorous movies follow below, watched this Sunday Tuesday Monday for blood sprayed fun yay. I wonder why humanity holds such a fascination in the bizarre and dreadful, but I suppose it goes back, to the good, old, times. I shall not forget to mention this thread for brining me back into this hybrid genre of death and destruction. ;)
Faces Of Death
Faces of Death is a documentary on death. Both real and fictional video sequences combined with a scientifically adequate narrator follows the movie through in a journey by the Amazons, where both humans and animals live in bloodier manners than the rest of our 'civilized world' to our own civilization in which people eat monkey brains just to be cultural, arrange bloodsplattering battles between their pets and constantly kill themselves while underestimating the scenarios they throw themselves into. There are five parts in this series of shocking material, I watched my way through the first two of them and an additional documentary on this documentary, it's like an uncensored hour on the discovery channel, lots of interesting and at times a bit shocking sceneries from our own world.
rated 3/5: not bad
Traces Of Death
Traces of Death is another series of documentaries on Death, or as they say the first true Shockumentary, created for the 'True Death Enthusiast'. I'm not a 'True Death Enthusiast', but it was nevertheless a mindsplattering experience watching this. Basically it's just a compilation of various videoclips taken of people dying, dead people being abused and various other chaotic events. I watched my way through the whole series (four movies, I think), the first episode is extremely gory, lots of suicide, murder and accidental injuries that would cause a by Internet not sensually dulled person to develop nausea and away-turned head syndromicals. Through the episodes it seems as they lose quality material however and focus more on crashes and other clips you may have seen many of online already, overall the quality tends to be very crappy and the effort put into the narratives is not a very large one, it's unprofessional, but with a lot of content included.
rated 2/5: decent
Guinea Pig
Here's an Asian series from the eighties featuring various creatively bloody series, such as a regular office worker who discovers he can't die and eventually completely disembodies himself, or a mad scientist that in the strife to cure his sister conforms sinister bodily experiments in his basement. The scenarios range widely, but they all have the Guinea Pig concept included in one way or another, people physically abused without being able to do much about it.
rated 3/5: not bad
Braindead
An expedition to some unknown country spirals out of control after a rat-monkey beast has been captured. Apparently the beast transforms all it bites into walking corpses, and after first biting and then being brutally killed by the main characters grandmother at the Zoo things really get insane. The special effects in this old British movie are insanely well created, and the amount of blood shed outweighs all of the other movies in the list. Despite the exaggerated flight of limbs and inhumane events portrayed within the movie is very well-made, and just might be my favorite out of these, the characters all play their rolls perfectly and the plot line progresses in a manner by which you can both laugh and gulp in disgust to, it contains not only horror, but also comedy, drama, romance and raw brutal action. If you've seen the Evil Dead series, and appreciated it, you will like this one as well, the style is remotely similar.
rated 4/5: fo shizzle
Cannibal Holocaust
Apparently this series of two movies from the eighties is based upon two separate and true events that happened deep within the Amazon jungle long long ago. They convey not only the cannibalistic cultures of these primitive tribes, but also the extreme evil hidden within of our own civilized race, very brutal, and very well made. The plotline is captivating, humiliating and bloody beyond doubt. The first more than the second.
rated 3/5: not bad
City Of The Living Dead
Another typical zombie movie here? No, it's a classic! Well-made, black and white,. but that doesn't matter, great stuff.
rated 2/5: decent
Night Of The Living Dead
This is the first part in George A. Romero's legendary trilogy of the living dead, the first one makes it's way all the way back to 1968, was filmed with low budget and not many actors, but still manages to achieve what in fact very few black and white movies have ever achieved, much less the modern zombie movies in existence, true horror. The actors play their roles with great endeavor and the plotline is cleverly composed and despite the movie playing through in a very limited scenery the suspense stays present until the very end.
It's a great movie, a classic, and well worth watching. In the 1990s a new version of this movie was made, featuring the same characters (though now with new actors) and the same plotline, though this time with a twist,. The actors are as great in this one as the old ones were, if not better, and the plot proceeds with the same familiar suspense as in the past, though this time with color and very much improved effects. The budget on explosions and destruction seems a bit larger in this one. And it doesn't end there! In 2006 another version of this movie came out, with a different set of characters, playing their roles in the same house as previously, though in this one before the older main characters arrived there! It's a prelude to the old classics, and yet again a very well-made one. Seeing all these three movies with the same sceneries, puzzling bits and pieces together, and noticing the differences in cultural reference and filming methods between the decades is a real treat. I appreciated these three more than any others, if you haven't seen them, I recommend you do so, it's a real treat.
rated 5/5: friggin awesome
Day Of The Dead
Zombies swarm the earth and a few survivors make their way to a shopping mall in hopes of surviving even longer, they have fun, they strive to survive, things happen. Out of this entire trilogy this is in my humble opinion the worst one, it doesn't have the same suspense or authenticity as the other ones do, but it's still worth watching, zombie fanatic or not.
rated 3/5: not bad
Dawn Of The Dead
No, not the new remade version, the old one, the one from the eighties, the classic. I have seen the new one too, however, and despite it being much better in scenographical concepts, this will always be my choice of the two.
Deep down in a shelter the hope of mankind lives and awaits their end. There is a doctor, there is a black guy, there is a female character, and there is a crazy guy, much like all the other movies George A. Romero spits out, this trait in the cast of main characters brings a sense of familiarity into the picture, and I like it. The movie is very well composed, and I was happy to realize that Gorrilaz captivating track that I forgot the name to a long time ago actually fetched it's intro from the start of this movie. Characters all have their own special characteristics, there is a lot of thought involved, a wellwritten plot, good music, everything is as it should be. Recommended.
rated 4/5: fo shizzle
Hatchet
A modern film created solely for the sake of blood splatter. Carnage it does have, but what it's missing however is a good plotline and any form of horror. It's gruesome beyond doubt, taking bodily mutilation to new limits, but there is no suspense, no terror, no true emotion portrayed within. Pretty crappy.
rated 2/5: decent
Haute Tension
Seeing foreign horror films is something I don't do very often, but I realize I should. In difference to the commonly American blockbusters they seem to contain something that Americans have not been able to portray correctly since the turn of the millennium, namely emotion. A very well-made, well-filmed, and well-played movie featuring a sinister psychopath and her love for another.
rated 4/5: fo shizzle
Zombie Holocaust
Much like the Cannibal Holocaust this film is based upon a true happening, but it is not as good as the other two parts at all. The special effects and the fraction of blood and intestines gives a fair share, and the plot is unique as well, but it didn't have the same impact as the others in this series of 'Holocausts'.
rated 3/5: not bad
Imprint
A girl comes back to visit her parents together with her boyfriend, she sees ghosts in her room, her dad is in a strange mentally endorsed state of mind and her brother is dead. Striving to solve this murder she stays in town for sometime and mysterious things happen. I wouldn't want to explain too much of the plot and risk spoiling it for you, since it really is a quite simple motive, but it is well-made, filled with emotion, and with a very cleanly filmed style as well. If you're expecting blood (yes, I was expecting some of it too, since it was in this one list of brutal movies), you won't find any, but it's still a great movie and very much worth watching!
rated 3/5: not bad
So there it is, the list of unlucky thirteen, hope these reviews did some good, despite their suddle length and vague descriptions of plotlines and blood percentage in comparison to the rawest of all, Feast of Blood, enjoy. .)
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The only gory movies I've enjoyed are The Platform and Apostle. They may not be true gore, but more gruesome than your average violent R-Rated film. Not pure shock value, more like grindhouse. Hmm 8MM and Wrong Turn (2021) too...
Ah this explains the NG react.
I don't think I've seen either of those, s'pose I'll add them to my watchlist... as for the ones above I think I enjoyed them more back when I watched them than I would today. Just like I enjoyed the edgy nature of NG more when I signed up. Feels like there's just a phase you go through when you're fascinated by extremes, or forbidden things, and movies like this definitely fit that mold. For some maybe it's not just a 'phase'...
The Night Of The Living Dead series maybe doesn't match the rest of this list though, there is gore but it's more so just a classic zombie movie, I still think that one holds up well on more merits than just fulfilling a morbid fascination.
Braindead was a real mastery of props too. It's superviolent but in an almost comical way, not so much a disturbing one.
I recall Hatchet was pretty scary too, with a vibe similar to the Wrong Turn franchise... don't really remember the others in full, just bits and pieces. The Guinea Pig and Faces Of Death ones were disturbing, I think there's a scene where a guy eats a mermaid alive in Guinea Pig, if I'm remembering the right movie, it's just morbid stuff... Cannibal Holocaust has a pretty brutal rape scene, that's about all I remember from those...
I do love Grindhouse though, especially new movies that emulate the old style - and do it better, like for example Planet Terror, or Machete. Where the violence has a stylistic value more so than a gruesome one maybe? Don't know what it is but there's just something about that style that works...
It's gratifying somehow. Braindead fits that mold too.