Violent Shit (1989)

Waste of time

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

hyped garbage

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

We see the killer briefly as a happy child then 20 years later as a killer. The gore effects are lame by today's standards using fake parts and pig guts. The blood spray was also fake looking. There wasn't much of a plot, random people being in the woods getting killed and mutilated. About 30 minutes or so we get some kind of Satanic explanation, that didn't explain much.Guide: F-word, Fake organ nudity and mutilation.

Violent $hit (1989) * (out of 4) Insane, low-budget horror film from Germany has a young boy murdering his mother. Twenty years later Karl (Andreas Schnaas) escapes from a mental hospital and goes on another bloody murder spree.VIOLENT $HIT comes from director Schnaas who has made a career out of these low-budget horror movies that's main purpose is to make the viewer sick. You can read more about Germany's stance on horror movies from this era but what basically happened is several filmmakers started making this ultra gory movies. The end result is pretty much what you'd expect and your level of entertainment will certainly depend on what you want from your horror movies.Personally speaking, I can respect the filmmakers of films like this a lot more than I actually enjoy the films. I say that because I can respect people going out with very little money and doing something they love. I admit that the insane special effects aren't anything ground-breaking but at the same time you have to give them credit for going over-the-top and just delivering a non-stop amount of gore.The problem with VIOLENT $HIT and others like it is the fact that there's just not much here to hold your interest. There's really nothing "good" here in regards to technical terms and I'd argue that none of the characters are all that interesting. There's the gore, yes, but to me that's just not enough to keep this entertaining even through the short running time.

It's a difficult business making films with explanatory titles. A very few times it happens just right, but far more its little more than a pose, leading to disappointment at best and thorough contempt at worst. For instance there's White Rose Campus: Then Everybody Gets Raped, in which not everybody actually gets raped. Quite a lot do get raped and overall its hugely entertaining stuff so the film gets a pass but its still sad. Then there's Blooduckers from Outer Space which features infuriatingly little in the way of on screen bloodsucking, and at the bottom there are films like Gore from Outer Space, which has exactly zero on screen gore. Violent Sh!t is perfect though, well close too as the only folk who could possibly watch a film with such a name and be disappointed with the content are hardcore monster excrement enthusiasts not satiated by Monsturd, and really who cares about those weirdos? There's no perambulating excreta committing acts of violence here, but it's definitely a violent film. And by the standards of most normal people it's definitely sh!t. So by the connotations of its name its a winner, and if its name appeals to you in a critical manner its definitely a film for you. Essentially its an entry in the relatively less traveled slasher subgenre of woodlands lunatic who kills everyone he encounters for no good reason. Its kinship is with the likes of Don't Go in the Woods Alone and Orgroff, and though it never quite meets the anti art heights of the former or intoxicating ineptitude of the latter its a worthy effort. The fun of it is that a good few people get offed and they get offed real bad. Head hacking, arm chopping, tit slicing, dick lopping, cooch goring and more, all rendered in HG Lewis style but with comically thick and pinkish blood. Also the killer, K. The Butcher Sh!tter is played by Andreas Schnaas himself and wears a nifty check shirt/jeans and suspenders combo. Suffice to say, not very menacing. There's overuse of slow motion, jerky editing and some horrible technique that makes occasional bits look like the film has been turned into some horrid blotchy computer made cartoon. But for all the technical irritation Violent Sh!t is actually a pretty solid piece of imbecile gory junk. It absolutely lacks anything in the way of ambition or pretension, there's nothing there but trash gore cheer and the feel of idiot youngsters playing with and trying to milk the limited time they had with their cheap editing resources. In short its fun, it rings through with nothing but fun. Very little to it, but for a trash gore opus that won't stretch your brain or your time frame (its less than 75 minutes long) its a classic.

Andreas Schnaas' first feature could be the worst movie ever made if it would be a "real film". In fact, it's actually a homemade feature shot on video. The editing is terrible. Since it was quiet hard to add sound effects, all the splatter sequences are soundless with only a (boring) music playing. The gore scenes are rather bloody, but the special effects are utterly amateurish (as the entire flick), so absolutely unable to shock and\or disgust. The cinematography is less than poor, like a birthday video shot at night with a horrible sound and the story doesn't exists: it's basically an anthology of unconvincing splatter scenes, The only right thing is the title.