Violent Shit II: Mother Hold My Hand (1992)

i must have seen a different film!!

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Violent $hit II (1992)** (out of 4)This sequel takes place twenty years after the original and this time it's Karl 'The Butcher' Jr. who is doing the killer, seeking revenge for the murder of his father (the killer from the original). This time out Karl Jr. is also getting instructions from his mother.I really wasn't a fan of Andreas Schnaas' VIOLENT $HIT but this sequel was much more entertaining even if it's basically the same type of stuff we saw in the first. I enjoyed this sequel a lot more because there was a better story here or at least a type of story that we could follow. Yes, the first film was all about the gore and this sequel is too but the deranged son being given orders from his weird mother leads to some interesting stuff.As I said, the main reason to check out this film is for the non-stop gore and some of it enters a very vile territory and especially some of the more sexually explicit scenes. This includes certain male parts being cut off as well as a woman who meets a very disgusting stapler. There's pretty much one outrageous and over-the-top gore scene after another and they're rather clever in their own way and they certainly add to what entertainment you're going to get from this.VIOLENT $HIT II isn't a masterpiece or even a good film but it delivers what you'd expect from it and it's certainly much better than the original.

Moving on if not exactly moving up with Andreas Schnaas, Violent Sh!t 2 deals with the adventures of Karl Jr., son and heir of K. The Butcher Sh!tter from part 1. In the first few scenes there's the faintest sign that Schnaas has even made fairly radical advances, there's an ineptly choreographed but competently lensed fight scene following the breakdown of a drug deal, a couple of stylish dusky silhouette shots, even mild excitement. Even more far out though is the detour the film then takes into Hamburg, for a few moments it looks as if this one might actually have a plot, and more than one location! But no worries, its not too long before the film settles back into a comfortable rut of Karl Jr. in a forest, killing everyone he meets. Campers, joggers, fisherman, campers, construction workers, more campers, no one can escape Karl and his big cleaver or sometimes his gun or hook. His mom also gets a bit of screen time, weird old crone who considerably ups the discomfort and perversion factor (no prizes for guessing what sort of things go down). Basically the standard sequel template is followed, same plot, higher bodycount, more protracted scenes of slaughter, added perversion, nudity and even intentional humour. All this and the most egregious stylistic tics of the original are largely toned down, whilst there are still a fair few jumpy edits, daft freeze frames or fade outs and various other silliness on the whole things are much more controlled and in the end as with the beginning even stylish and a wee bit exciting. For all that things have come on though, I can't say as I found this one as charming an experience as the first. A large part of this was probably down to watching a subtitle free print, and since my knowledge of German is pretty limited the dialogue with all its potential smarts and subtleties passed me by. OK I wasn't expecting smarts or subtleties, that was a lie. But I'm sure it was funny, and extremely silly, and all the other good things. I didn't exactly have problems following the plot, but the repetitive, set-up kill, set-up kill structure becomes a lot less interesting when you don't know what anyone is saying, even a two minute appearance just to get slaughtered can be fun if the audience knows what you are saying, not so much here. More particular to the film, it was shorter and had more padding than the original, never a good sign. And on a basic level, this sort of thing works best as a one off. Its nice to see Karl becoming a truly epic villain, but it would even nicer to see more of the spectacle and variety that come little but in the finale here. Still, this is a watchable time waster with lots of cheap dismemberment, disembowelment and all the things you want to see, including some nasty genital abuse to make you squirm. Worth watching if you have too, but mainly for die hards only I'd say.

This one reminds me of the early works of Peter "Bad Taste" Jacksons. It's much better than the first one. There is better effects and it is also technically better. So if you like stupid (german) dialogue, sick effects and no plot, this one should do it. There's also refferences to other horror classics like Friday the 13th and Evil Dead. It's out on DVD, in a German Special Edition. All three Violent Shit movies+ tons of extra material, like Behind the scene, audio commentaries and slideshow. A must buy for splatter fans!

This is the first Violent shit movie I have been able to see and the first thing that hits you is the extreme amateurish nature of it. People I've known have said that 'Bad Taste' was very amateur but you really don't know what amateur is until you've seen this. Although putting that aside you can glean some entertainment value from this if you have a sick sense of humour. Best to skip through the post-title talking because this film doesn't really have or need a plot. Just skip straight to Karl getting on with the killing. The movie was quite dissapointingly short with a very abrupt ending(without a reason to back it up like BWP) If you are looking for gore perversity and bad acting, this is the movie for you and it certainly delivers on the gore. One thing I have to say, ball bursting, OUCH! 3/10