I've only seen one other movie by director Olaf Ittenbach, PREMUTOS: LORD OF THE LIVING DEAD, and although that movie was a gore-fest also, the tone and subject matter of it, with it's zombies and ridiculousness, was high comedy in comparison to the darkness of this excursion into the torture porn genre that's been done to death in recent years. This movie is shot way better than PREMUTOS and is definitely one of the goriest movies I've seen in a long time. You get all manner of bloody stabbings, shootings, head-crushing and the expected torture scenes including a kid chainsawed in half and a guy stuffing his own intestines back into his belly. The story is a bit of a convoluted mess concerning a woman going through a divorce that gets uglier and uglier until it ends up in the violent orgy on display. The main downfall of the movie is the horrible acting, possibly due to Ittenbach using his wife as the lead actress and her English skills being a little rough on the ears. Why they would shoot this in English under this circumstance I have no idea. The other thing that makes no sense is the way the music rises and actually drowns out the dialogue whenever a major plot point is being revealed. What the hell kind of sound mixing is that? On the other hand all the effects work was done really well for something obviously shot on a low budget. I would only recommend this one to die-hard gore-hounds looking for something very juicy because in that category it doesn't disappoint at all.
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