Extreme Cinema

SYNOPSIS: Mad Roman emperor Caligula Caesar continues his despotic reign, torturing, murdering and raping his citizens almost at random, while also attempting to fend off various assassination efforts and trying to have a good time, despite it all. Meanwhile, a young woman infiltrates Cal’s harem, in the hope of sneaking in a cheeky little assassination while she’s there. But can …

SYNOPSIS: Set in the Tokugawa (or Edo) period, the first in Teruo Ishii’s Joys of Torture series opens with a montage portraying a succession of women being decapitated, burnt alive at the stake and torn in two by oxen. The film then adopts a portmanteau approach of three short stories which all culminate in lengthy torture sessions REVIEW: Director Teruo …

  SYNOPSIS: Pink Eye is set in a small town in upstate New York, at a prison-like, dilapidated insane asylum where secret drug testing has gone inexplicably wrong. Patients are dying in sick and twisted ways and those who survive are becoming raging, homicidal lunatics. It’s only a matter of time before all hell breaks loose and the patients begin …

SYNOPSIS: KatieBird Wilkins is a woman in her early 20s who is working with a psychologist, Dr. Mark Richardson , as she struggles with her emotional problems. As it happens, Richardson is also KatieBird’s lover, and the intimacy of their relationship allows him to learn of KatieBird’s deepest secret — she likes to kill people. How this outwardly sweet and …

SYNOPSIS: A very middle-class family retreat to their bourgeois lake house where they hope to unwind, play a little golf and spend some time together. Their idyllic day is interrupted when two softly-spoken psychopaths break in and take the family hostage. What do they want? To play some games. Not golf either. Nor particularly funny.

SYNOPSIS: A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec’s missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.

SYNOPSIS: Camping in Germany, a group of friends encounter a tribe of violent cannibals in the woods. A lovely summer afternoon quickly turns into a fight for survival. Well what do you expect, camping in a place ominously known as The Black Forest? REVIEW: In a world in which we now have five Wrong Turn movies, seven Texas Chainsaw Massacres …

SYNOPSIS: The Beauty’s Evil Rose is a great title, but rather misleading – The Beauty’s Evil Parasitic Penis-monster would have been more apt, as the plot – such as it is – involves a Satanic female cult who seek to take vengeance on men, for perceived and/or real wrongs, using a parasite which is transmits deadly poison through sexual contact. …

SYNOPSIS: A group of friends lost in the back roads of Texas become separated after picking up a deranged hitchhiker, and find themselves at the mercy of the murderous Leatherface and his family of perverted cannibals. REVIEW: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is unquestionably one of the classic films from the horror genre. What could be better than an inbred boondocks …

SYNOPSIS: Cannibal is a 2006 German direct-to-video horror film written, directed and produced by Marian Dora. REVIEW: In 2001, German citizen Armin Meiwes posted an ad on a website called The Cannibal Café looking for a young man who wanted to be murdered and eaten. After multiple failed matches, Bernd Jurgen Brandes replied to his ad. Video camera recording, the …

SYNOPSIS: You’ll be bleary-eyed (and blissful) after viewing the nine videos on this packed video. And the piece de resistance? Necrophagia goddess Jenna Jameson turns up in a special guest appearance REVIEW: A music video-rooted entry into the extreme category, “Necrophagia: Nightmare Scenarios” is 2004 production that features the music of hardcore gore music-act “Necrophagia”. The 40 minute compilation is …

SYNOPSIS: Brother of Darkness begins with a young man, Toh (Hugo Ng Doi-Yung) on trial for the brutal murder of his brother, Wah (William Ho Ka-Kui). As the court case unfolds and witnesses take the stand, a horrific tale of sibling abuse, domestic violence and all-round thugary ensues. We discover that Toh was subject to frequent attacks by Wah whenever …

SYNOPSIS Jeffery, a psychiatric patient, has disturbing visions, and his psychiatrist follows him in a hallucinatory sorjourn to hell. REVIEW: Directed by Michael Todd Schneider Starring Michael Todd Schneider, Eric James, Tom Colbert, (aka My Crepitus) Lucifer Valentine meets Fred Vogel in this experimental, shot on video montage, which seems designed to drive its viewers insane. I never saw the …

SYNOPSIS: Three women find themselves in a penitentiary for female criminals run by sadists who enjoy the violent implementation of corporeal punishment. A local prostitute ring is also involved in the abuse of the unfortunate inmates.

SYNOPSIS: Sheila follows her sister’s last steps before her disappearance. These take her to a New Guinean jungle, where a white man, reverend Jonas, has erected himself as chief of a Purification sect seeking to bring collective suicide to both a cannibal tribe and his American followers. As Sheila goes deeper into the jungle, she will discover that her fate …