German director Andreas Schnaas (Violent Shit series, Anthropophagous 2000) is known for steadily churning out extreme gore pictures. As a matter of fact his film repertoire consists exclusively of violent horror movies. This was his first film and it’s true to its name; it is very violent, and it’s pure fecal matter.

Young Karl comes inside after an evening of playtime (by himself) with his favorite red ball. His mother is mad at him for some reason and locks him in the cellar as punishment. Karl is mentally handicapped, and I guess for this reason he is easy prey to violent thought patterns which a bearded demon encourages. That’s right folks, while locked in the cellar a freaky as fuck demonic beast with a long tongue appears and tells him to kill people. As soon as he gets a chance he butchers his mother with a meat cleaver (off-screen).

We now fast forward twenty years later. A prison van is transporting Karl to a different state mental hospital. One of the guards has to take a piss; the driver stops the van and the other one goes off to do his business. Karl slides open the van door and escapes. You’d think a prison transport would at least have locks on their doors. Karl bites one of the guards and takes the cleaver to the other guy. Where did he get this meat cleaver from? Things like this don’t really matter in this straight-out gore fest. During the melee he gets shot but I suppose his demonic adrenaline kept him going. After all, he needs to prowl the woods and butcher unsuspecting people for the rest of the movie.

The rest of the film consists of Karl’s murder spree in the woods. Wandering the woods at night a young woman gets her boob cut off. Another guy gets his arm and dick severed. Two fowl mouthed tree trimmers are slaughtered by decapitation and one is sawed in half. The camera captures all the blood squirt, spray and splatter. The makeup effects are simple but effective. Unfortunately Schnaas employs distracting cheap-shit filter effects on the film which distort the images during the gore scenes and non gore scenes alike. A noteworthy scene is when a woman gets her vagina stabbed and sliced up. A makeshift vagina is used for this and the budget gag is terrible but I got a kick out of it.

Later there is a much too long scene of a car driving on a dirt road with metal music in the background. It turns out to be two ladies on their way to church. Naturally they are killed. Karl then finds a crucified Christ figure in the dark woods. He hacks at this guy’s chest and enters the cavity he’s created there. I’m guessing this was some sort of bizarre hallucination. What happens next is even weirder. The big climax of the film is Karl writhing and squirming on the ground as he TEARS OPEN HIS STOMACH AND GIVES BIRTH TO A BABY!

I gave this movie one coffin, and that’s being generous. Sure we get a brutal string of violent murders but the story is nonexistent. Karl is the only character, the rest are just people placed in the woods for him to kill. His hallucination and transformation don’t really mean anything to me. My favorite scene was the demon in the cellar bit. That really creeped me out. This film lacks substance and direction. I’m guessing that if you watch it at a party you still won’t have much fun. Jose and I saw this while we were drunk on Chartreuse (green liquor made by monks). The next day Jose told me he remembered a guy giving birth in the film. I doubted him until I watched the movie again.

- Jorge Antonio Lopez