Extreme Cinema

SYNOPSIS: Based on the Ed Gein case, a deranged rural farmer becomes a grave robber and murderer after the death of his possessive mother whom he keeps her corpse, among others, as his companions in his decaying farmhouse REVIEW:

SYNOPSIS: It’s been 20 years since the bloodbath in the woods took away many lives. Now the demons are back in the woods and six young friends will face them as they have to spend a night in the woods when their car has broken down. REVIEW: Blutnacht 2 – Die Ruckkehr Des Damon (Blood Night 2 – Return of …

SYNOPSIS: When a man is killed by a drunk driver, his son vows vicious vengeance. He hires the Eightlets Mafia to kill the director and his family. With Heiko beaten to a pulp and his parents brutally murdered, it looks as though our tale will have a quick resolution. Not so: Heiko awakens from his coma and the vendetta continues …

SYNOPSIS: One man’s courage and will to break loose from the system, and the ability of one individual to bring down the kingdom. REVIEW: There are some movies that I find myself at a loss for words to describe, and Bread And Circus is one of them. To say it is simply a Norwegian horror movie would be selling it …

SYNOPSIS: During World War II, the tyrannical Judge Murayama uses his military power to imprison and torture innocent people. Suspected of helping an anti-government movement, the lovely Namiji Kikushima is captured, along with a local kabuki actor. Helpless and unable to escape, the two are subjected to a grueling series of tortures including rope bondage and physical assault. As the …

SYNOPSIS: A fanatic medical student has developed a serum that causes extremely realistic visions. When a young woman who is a subject of his, begins taking the serum, she has terrifying visions of her own death. REVIEW: A girl wakes up in what looks like one of Dexter’s kill rooms. The walls and floor are wrapped in plastic, she is …

SYNOPSIS: A ruthless governor with a girl’s name turns against his former friends after his lust for pretty young Lotus takes a turn for the more sinister. Now in a position of great power, he has the lot of them violently tortured and brutalised. With power, said a great man (I believe it was Uncle Ben, the rice salesman) comes …

SYNOPSIS: Crazed Vietnam vet hunts down and kills women. REVIEW: The tagline for Shaun Costello’s 1973 film Forced Entry reads as follows: “He was trained to kill…and kill…and kill…and kill…” There are two things that immediately come to mind when reading this. The tagline actually holds more (implied) action than the movie itself, in which only three people are killed. …

SYNOPSIS: Residents of peaceful Pebbles Court, Homesville, are being used unknowingly as test experiments for a new ‘Body Drug’ that causes rapid body decomposition (melting skin etc.) and painful death. REVIEW: If you were to mix the face melting scene from the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, the poisonous revelations of Super Size Me, and a couple drops …

SYNOPSIS: A young man wants to seek revenge on his sister because she has been stealing from him, but his mother’s boyfriend tells him off, which is just the beginning of a downfall for our young man.

It is really hard for me to believe that I’ve been talking about, reporting on and watching SAW films for the last 7 years. The series as a whole has gone through many changes since the ground breaking original chapter. Some would argue that at the very least it is the grand daddy of the “torture p*rn” craze of the …

SYNOPSIS: Three Extremes is an omnibus of three tales of the supernatural from South Korea, Japan and Thailand. Memories by Kim Jee-woon concerns a domestic haunting in which a wife attempts to find her way home, not realising that she is in fact dead, while her husband struggles to remember why his wife has suddenly disappeared. Nonzee Nimibutr’s The Wheel …

SYNOPSIS: During a spot of hypnotically induced past-life regression, dim-witted Corbet finds his inner cannibalistic psychopath awakened, and embarks upon a violent killing spree in which all manner of carnage is gleefully inflicted upon those around him. Plus a great many puerile sound effects as he does it. REVIEW: “A bit like Peter Jackson’s Braindead or Bad Taste” is how …

SYNOPSIS: A group of campers are stalked by a deranged redneck with a pig mask. REVIEW: Have you ever seen that horror movie where a bunch of college-aged kids pile into a van and take a trip together, and then they end up either getting lost or changing plans and going to an unchartered area, and then one by one …

SYNOPSIS Arkin escapes with his life from the vicious grips of “The Collector” during an entrapment party where he adds beautiful Elena to his “Collection.” Instead of recovering from the trauma, Arkin is suddenly abducted from the hospital by mercenaries hired by Elena’s wealthy father. Arkin is blackmailed to team up with the mercenaries and track down The Collector’s booby …