Movie Review: Snuff (Blu-ray)

It's quite possible that I'm in a small minority, but at the oh-so tender age of eleven years-old I discovered a synopsis in the Encyclopedia of Horror Movies for Roberta and Michael Findlay's notorious Snuff --in of all places, the public library. Here is where the exploitatively sleazy allure of Snuff peaked my interest the most as it appeared to be one of the most shocking films ever produced with some absolutely golden taglines that include: "A film that could only be made in South America, where life is CHEAP!" or this one "The Bloodiest thing that ever happened in front of a camera!!!" and finally " The picture they said could NEVER be shown!".

Blue Underground debuted Snuff (Slaughter, American Cannibal) on DVD several years back in barebones fashion with some very interesting packaging that made the DVD look like they didn't put it out and someone else had taken it upon themselves to. Amazingly, Snuff is now on Blu-ray from the folks at Blue Underground. The companies’ name is now on the cover; it has a high-def upgrade and is loaded with some neato extra features that might add some explanation to the history of Snuff.

Cinema Head Cheese: The Podcast! #116 - So Many Monsters

Kevin and Jeff discuss the recent Rapture Horror Expo and all of the interviews that The Gorram Nerd Hour's Jacob O'Neal was able to get. They also talk about sharing Godzilla with the next generation.

They also review the horror docs Room 237 and Crystal Lake Memories as well as the 35th anniversary release of Halloween, the wild and crazy Snuff, the Coppola vampire drama Twixt and the robot vs. monster battle that is Pacific Rim.

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Movie Review: Onna Harakiri Sakuhinshu (1990)

Written by Yuuri Sunohara

Starring Yuuri Sunohara

This was my first personal foray into the seedy underbelly of Japanese fetish cinema, aside from a vomit-fetish porn I stumbled across while looking for Harry Potter books online once. And I must confess, before viewing it I had no idea there was a whole and distinct sub-genre of horror dealing exclusively with ritualistic suicide, otherwise known as Harakiri. Just another reason why I love Japanese cinema, those crazy bastards just have no boundaries when it comes to inappropriate shit. I'll simply refer to it as “art house snuff”, that has a nice ring to it and gives it an air of integrity.

Movie Review: Pig / 1334 (1998/2011, Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

Review By: Rob Sibley

Sometimes films come out of nowhere and leave an impact and are hard to shake. When I popped in the Blu-ray for Pig & it's spiritual sequel 1338 I had no idea what I was in-store for. What I witnessed and what I felt is hard to say really. I haven't been punched in the gut this hard since “The Bunny Games” when it comes to baring a film down to it's purist and deranged artistic elements. 

 Much like The Bunny Games these two short films are not something you watch and enjoy. This isn't “entertainment” it's something deeply personal message hidden inside of a experimental psychological horror short. It's truly one of the more intense viewing experiences I've ever had. These are two short films that I will not soon forget.

Movie Review: Gut (2012)

Movie Review: Gut (2012)
Directed by Elias
Starring Jason Vail, Nicholas Wilder and Sarah Schoofs
Run Time: 90 minutes

Two life-long friends, Tom and Dan are both stuck in the same dead-end monotonous desk job. Tom is married to a beautiful wife and has a young daughter who loves him, but he seems to be missing something in his life. Except for his one friend, Dan is a loner. A guy creeping close to middle age who has no life other then watching horror films and eating lunches with his buddy every afternoon at the local diner.

Life is just plodding along for these two until the day when Dan invites Tom over to watch a mysterious DVD that he supposedly bought online. As they sit down to watch it over beers, Tom is horrified to see that what they are watching appears to be a snuff film showing a woman being gutted with a blade by an unknown assailant. Dan seems to be enthralled by what he’s watching while Tom storms out in disgust.

Movie Review: The Life and Death of a Porno Gang (Blu-ray)

The sub-genre of “snuff films” in movies have been explored and even exhausted in many ways by filmmakers since Paul Schrader’s fantastic Hardcore. In 1997, there was even a book on the existence of snuff with Yaron Svoray’s book God’s of Death. It  took on this subject with compelling but seemingly fictional stories from the author who claimed to see a person killed on camera upon a visit to an Eastern bloc country.

A Serbian Film has gotten a ton of attention over the past three years as it not only explores the “snuff film” but takes the sub-genre to some sickening points.  Another film taking on the subject matter from director Mladen Djordjevic called The Life and Death of the Porno Gang recently came out of Yugoslavia. Synapse Films has been no stranger to tackling more obscure international fare which they often do a great job at. If you’ve only seen the movie at a film festival you’ll be happy to know that The Life and Death of the Porno Gang has made its U.S debut on Blu-ray and DVD.  Could it actually be better than A Serbian Film?

Movie Review: A Serbian Film - Uncut Limited Edition (Invincible Pictures, 2010)

I'm a fan of A Serbian Film. Ok, I said it. I’ve even seen it more than once, which is something that you’re not supposed to do even if you’re an admirer of the film. So far I’ve checked out two different versions: The widely released unrated/censored version from Invincible Pictures and MVD Visual and now the limited uncut release that’s strictly distributed by the producers at Invincible Pictures. The Serbian Film in a lot of ways, whether you hate it or not, it will stand the test of time and be talked about 20 years from now. To me it’s important to see uncut, so here it is!

A little bit about the background of the plot - Milos (Syrdjan Toborovic) used to be the Eastern block's answer to John Holmes - hung like a horse and with an out of this world sex drive. Things changed drastically for Milos after the former pornstar starts a family and has a son with his love, Marija (Jelena Gavrilovic). The life of Milos as a porn king is no longer. Soon bills start to pile up, desperation sets in and our "family man" has to take a gig that's brought to his attention by former onscreen screw. This isn't quite what he's done in his other erotic films - it's much more dangerous and perverse.

Snuff Serbian Style! Synapse Brings the Porno Gang to Blu-ray and DVD this August!

MORE SLAVIC CRAZINESS ON DVD AND BLU-RAY!

THE LIFE AND DEATH
OF A PORNO GANG

Picks up where A SERBIAN FILM left off!

During the final days of Slobodan Miloševic’s Serbian rule, a young film student named Marko becomes desperate to make a feature film. Finally getting a job as an adult film director, he quickly runs afoul of the mob and needs to get out of town fast! Assembling a traveling group of misfits into a “porno cabaret,” Marko and his new friends drive though the quiet countryside in a beat-up van performing live sex acts for peasants and farmers. But life is hard on the road, and they find it hard to earn enough money to survive.

Marko meets a shady snuff film producer who says they can make a lot more money shooting actual murders, theatrically “performed” with willing participants.
This is one offer the struggling porno gang cannot refuse!

Synapse Films is proud to present both Blu-ray and DVD editions of Mladen Djordjevic’s controversial film, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A PORNO GANG. Not for the faint of heart, nor weak-minded, this critically acclaimed shocker is “bursting with outrageous characters and shocking situations… a candy-colored suicide bus to hell” (Mitch Davis, Fantasia Film Festival). Funny, gruesome, sexy and jaw-dropping adults-only entertainment!

Special Features:

• “Made in Serbia” (101 min.) – Feature length documentary on the Serbian adult film industry (*BLU-RAY EXCLUSIVE* – appears ONLY on the Blu-ray due to data size constrictions)
• “Making of” Featurette
• Deleted Scenes
• Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible Alternate/Explicit Cover Art

Disc Info:

Director: Mladen Djordjevic
Starring: Mihajlo Jovanovic, Ana Acimovic, Predrag Damnjanovic, Radivoj Knezevic
Run Time: 113 minutes
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: Serbian
Subtitles: English
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen Anamorphic 1.85:1
Formats: Blu-ray and DVD
Region: Region Free


Blu-ray: #654930314395 $29.95
DVD: #654930314494 $24.95


Synapse Films

Movie Review: Where The Dead Go To Die (2012)

Here at the Cinema Head Cheese offices on occasion we get screeners of films directed or produced by auters with bizarre pseudonyms. There’s been Creep Creepersin (Him, Corporate Cutthroat Massacre), Mr.  Creepo ( Driller: A Sexual Driller, Skin Eating Jungle Vampires), both of which have tortured a couple of our reviewers to various degrees. Now it’s Jimmy ScreamerClaus with the obvious pseudonym. This time around it's his vile animated film Where the Dead Go to Die that gets reviewed and you know what folks unlike those other "artists", it isn’t crap.

ScreamerClaus does something unique that I’ve had yet to see in a genre release – an animated horror film using computer technology to create the artificial surroundings. Pixar it ain’t, but ScreamerClaus goes to so many depraved lengths to achieve one of the most disgusting “cartoons” you’re ever gonna see.

Movie Review: Grotesque (2009)

Directed by Koji Shiraishi

Starring Tsugumi Nagasawa, Hiroiki Kawatsure and Shigeo Osako

Reviewed By Kenny B.

With the success of the Saw & Hostel franchises (for better or worse) it has become quite apparent that there is a niche in the horror genre that needed to be filled. Most of us know it as “torture-porn” or “splatter films”, a movie which focuses on graphic depictions of gore and violence centered around a preoccupation with the vulnerability of the human body and the theatrical portrail of its mutilation. The majority of these films lacking any type of comedic tone, I personally find them for the most part, a bit tough to watch. And in all honesty, most of them are poorly made piles of dog shit in my opinion. Koji Shiraishi's Grotesque has climbed to the top of that pile of dog shit and proudly planted its flag as the king of the mountain for the time being. This film was made for one reason, to disturb and shock even the most hard-core of horror fans, and it succeeds in doing just that.