Monday, February 19, 2007

Men Behind the Sun(1988)



Unit 731 was an Japanese covert medical experiment unit in WWII mainly focusing on biological weapons. They used prisoners as test subject. There experiments would range from being placed in to high pressure chambers until death to being starved from food and water to see how long a human could survive. Mou Tun Fei's film Men Behind the Sun shows you what happened in Unit 731 with out holding any thing back.

Men Behind the Sun tells the story from many different perspectives in the movie. It focuses on the youth squad of Unit 731, but it also shows the high ups and the prisoners. This film basically documents some of the experiments they did on the prisoners. It also shows what happens at the end of the war and how they had to destroy Unit 731 so that it would never be know what happened there.

This film is not for the faint heart. It has excellent effects, but there is an autopsy in the movie of a little Chinese boy that is not effects, its all real. There is also a cat being eaten alive by hundred's of rats, so if real and/or animal death disturb you stay away from this film. Men Behind the Sun is a very powerful film, I recommend it strongly. But keep in mind this all really happened.

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Cannibal Holocaust(1980)



Made nearly 30 years ago, we have Ruggero Deodato's infamous cult classic "Cannibal Holocaust". This film is still shocking people with its brutal deaths or real animal slaughters. Shot on location in New York and the Amazon, it has visually stunning locations.

A film crew heads out to the Amazon to film a documentary about cannibalism. The crew murders and rapes the cannibal tribes to get the best shot possible, this is what leads to there demise. After months of not having any contact with the crew a search team is assembled to look for the missing crew. The search team is leaded by the Dean of Anthropology at New York University, Dr. Harold Monroe. As they are in the jungle looking for the crew they see the cannibals with possessions that belonged to the crew. Once they see the film canisters the smart Dr. Harold Monroe(played by porn star Robert Kertman) trades the film for a voice recorder. When they are back in New York they review what footage was shot, because they were going to edit it together and shot a tv documentary. When they are done with the film, they destroy it because of the unbelievable content on it.

Cannibal Holocaust is the film that got me in to horror, and still is one of my favorite films. The film is extremely savage, with amazing effects. If the animal violence kept you from watching the film in the past, now you can pick up the dvd released by Grindhouse Releasing, it has an "Animal Cruelty Free Version" that goes black before every animal death.



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Sunday, February 11, 2007

Video Violence(1987)



...When renting is not enough!! The rare classic shot on video flick Video Violence really proves anyone with a little motivation, a few blank VHS tapes and a camcorder can make a movie of their own. Yes this movies has horrible acting, terrible effects, bad audio and video. But why do we even bother to watch is? Well, because its nice to see what someone out side of the movie industry could put together.

Video Violence is about a couple that moves to a small town from the big apple. The husband opens a small video store in the town, but oddly enough the only things that are rented from the store are bloody horror movies and the occasional xxx film. When tapes of the stores start being replaced with homemade snuff films, the husband and wife go on an investigation to get to the end of the grizzly murders caught on tape.

There is some good gore in Video Violence even tho it was obvious it has a micro-budget. There is a really good looking decapitation scene in the film. Tho this film is very hard to find right now, you will have a blast when you watch it if you can get your hands on a copy. There is also a sequel to this film titled "Video Violence 2: The Exploitation" released by Camp Video.

You can find this movie on DVD along with Video Violence 2 on April 10, 2007 from Camp Motion Pictures(no relation to Camp Video). You can get more information on the DVD release at http://www.campmotionpictures.com/.

Niku daruma (1998)


Niku darum also knows as Psycho: The Snuff Reels, also known as Tumbling Doll Of Flesh. There are many titles for this film but no matter what you decide to call it, we all can agree on one thing, this is an extremely brutal and sadistic film. Ignore the Japanese's pixelation around the crotch(of both male and female), and you are in a treat for a great pseudo-snuff film.

The film starts off as a normal porno shoot with a girl coming in and getting banged, your typically porno. After this they proceed to start doing a bondage scene, you think this is where things would go bad but no. At the end of the shoot they are all just hanging out and eating noodle(what a surprise) . When the girl tries to leave the house she is greeted with a baseball bat to the head and is instantly knocked out. She wakes up tied up to a bed with a bandage around the head, the men decide to reduce her to an "Tumbling Doll of Flesh".

Niku daruma can have its boring parts, the first half of the movie is just a porno with no blood or fun. One thing about the film that may bother some people is that the film is all in Japaneses and has no subtitles, but then again this film doest really need to be heard to understood what is going on. It is rare that you would find the original Japaneses VHS, so keep your eyes out of a cheap DVD-R bootleg of this to check it out.

Saturday, February 10, 2007

The Misled Romance of Cannibal Girl and Incest Boy(2007)

From director Richard Taylor of Bizjack Flemco comes the short film "The Misled Romance of Incest Boy and Cannibal Girl" a sequal to a his previous short titled "Unicorn". Unlike many modern independent films today, this short is shot on a super8 film rather than digital video.

Cannibal Girl and Incest Boy is a love story, a very fucked up demented love story but a love story none the less. Incest Boy is badly treated by his mom and is carried around on a leash. While incest boys mother is in the abortion clinic removing her yummy fetus cannibal girl comes up and sees that incest boy is chained to a sign, she decides to come over and unhook the doggish looking boy. That is the start of there demented love story.

The gore in this film is pretty good, you get some limbs being torn off, cocks bit off, massive amounts of blood spray, enough to keep the gore hound inside you interested. Another thing about the film that makes if very fun to watch is the directing style Richard uses. The angles are all very unique and move really really fast.

I recommend you all see "The Misled Romance of Cannibal Girl and Incest Boy" when it is released on Valentines Day.

For more information on Bizjack Flemco and "The Misled Romance of Cannibal Girl and Incest Boy" go to http://www.myspace.com/incestcannibal and http://www.myspace.com/bizjackflemco.