If this is the first time you've heard the name Andreas Schnaas, well I'm here to educate you my gorehound minions. Schnaas is the director of the infamous Violent Shit Trilogy. Let me take you to a time when horror bootleg VHS tapes at horror conventions were the norm and 3 German directors redefined the low budget splatter film.With Schnaas was Jorg Buttgereit (Nekromantik and Nekromantik 2) and Olaf Ittenbach (Premutos, Burning Moon). The only way to see their films was to trade on the internet or go to a horror fest and buy a badly dubbed VHS copy. These 3 left their mark in the gorehound hall of fame. Mind you their movies had no plot, their films badly subtitled and had no budget, but that was made up for in the buckets of blood, gore and guts they put on the screen.
So Schnaas who last made a Troma distributed film called Nikos the Impaler is back to his roots with Violent Shit 4.0: Karl the Butcher vs Axe. Who the fuck is Axe? I have no idea but from the trailer I noticed a few things:
- NYC seems kinda apocalypticized
- Egypt too
- Umm lots of people are kinda dead
- Metal Masks from 1989 look the same in 2010
- Karl knows kung fu?!?!
- Gratuitous nudity!
- Arterial spraying! (looks like Schnaas got $5 extra dollars this time around)
- Karl is gonna knock some heads this time around (PUN SO INTENDED!)
Here are my mini reviews of all three movies for the record. I wrote these circa 2002.
1.) Violent Shit
Andreas Schnaas is a cult horror icon throughout the underground horror community. Everybody has heard of the Violent Shit Trilogy. Holy splatter and guts Batman! This is utter torture in the worse way.
Shot on video trash, VS is an exercise of guerrilla film making. A plot is non existent, but Karl the Butcher, our delusional and insane serial killer armed with a butcher's knife goes frolicking around the back, waaaay back German woods hacking up victims who just happen to be there.
The gore is very artificial but in a comical sorta way. Arms get cut off, heads get beheaded, intestines fall out, victims get cut in 2. It's a total ripoff of FT13th but Karl the Butcher has its moments and Violent Shit is fuckin violent shit.
2.) Violent Shit 2: Mother Hold My Hand
The best movie of the trilogy. Looky here! An opening title sequence. Classic splatter. No holds barred dismemberment's, intestines, yada yada yada.
3.) Violent Shit 3: Infantry of Doom AKA Zombie Doom
We conclude with Zombie Doom. Schnaas, you would have hoped by now would have had a budget to make a decent flick but alas he tries to intermix some American movies he must have seen (bad move Andreas!) and add some goofy humor.
Basic plot: Karl Sr and Jr. are reunited and have started a cult. Members train and of course if fail are unfortunately dismembered and killed. A former member (let's call him Chinese guy) and 2 castaways land who unfortunately land on the wrong island must survive Karl Jr's game...humans are hunted for sport. (you so original Schnaas!)
Cult members die, splatter galore, dismemberment's, disfigurements, tit impaling, head impaling, gutted stomachs. You got the picture? A little letdown from Part 2 but it's got the goodies.
So what do you all think?
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Um apparently my friend, I am not 'in the know'. Fuck me. I need to check this out, ASAP.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate the heads up. Knowing is half the battle.
ReplyDeleteWhile I have taken plenty of Violent Shits in my time, I have never heard of these films, or at least I do not remember them. That trailer is something else though, and I cannot help but be all about checking out a few of those flicks! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteHandled, havent even HEARD of these but I will rectumfy that shortly. Err rectify, yes.. rectify..
ReplyDeleteWell I'm either leading you guys to watch the most vile and utter garbage you've ever seen or seeing German splatter will give you a happy. If you've seen Buttgereit's Nekromantik...nothing can be shocking anymore.
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