Violent Shit
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| Directed by | Andreas Schnaas |
| Produced by | Andreas Schnaas The Violent Shitters |
| Written by | Andreas Schnaas |
| Starring | Andreas Schnaas Gabi Bäzner Wolfgang Hinz |
| Music by | Micky Engels |
| Cinematography | Steve Aquilina |
| Editing by | Steve Aquilina |
| Studio | Reel Gore Productions |
| Distributed by | Bloos Pictures Dead Alive Productions |
| Release date(s) | 20 January 1987 |
| Running time | 75 minutes |
| Language | German |
| Budget | $2,000 (reported) |
Violent Shit is an ultra-low budget horror film, most notable as the first feature-length film directed by Andreas Schnaas.
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[edit] Plot
The film begins with a young boy named Karl Berger (a surname given in the sequel) murdering his mother with a meat cleaver, after she reprimands him for returning home late. Twenty years later, in the mid-1970s, the imprisoned Karl is being transported to an unspecified location by the police, but manages to kill his captors and escape into the wilderness, somehow acquiring a cleaver in the process. Over the course of several days, Karl commits a series of murders across the countryside, mutilating and occasionally cannibalizing his victims. After one double homicide, Karl faints and has a flashback to the day he murdered his mother, revealing he had been coerced into killing her by a demon (which a line of dialogue indicates may be his father) he had encountered in the cellar after she had locked him in it.
At one point, Karl also encounters an apparition of Jesus crucified in the forest, which he hacks open, and crawls inside. After this encounter, Karl commits an additional dual murder outside a church, then collapses in a field, where his skin (which had been inexplicably decaying throughout the film) rots off, and he dies ripping himself open, revealing a baby covered in blood.
[edit] Cast
- Karl Inger as Karl "The Butcher" Berger (as K. The Butcher Shitter)
- Gabi Bäzner
- Wolfgang Hinz as Wolfgang
- Volker Mechter
- Christian Biallas
- Uwe Boldt
- Marco Hegele
- Lars Warncke
- Werner Knifke
- Bettina X.
- Maren Y.
- Beate Z.
[edit] Release
It was released on 20 January 1987 and on VHS in the year 1989 in West Germany. Although the country's first direct-to-video film, Violent Shit was immediately banned by German authorities for its explicit violence and soon became an underground cult hit. It played midnight showings for years before receiving a proper video release.[1]
In 2010, Synapse Films announced they will be releasing the film on DVD in the United States.[2]
[edit] Production
Andreas Schnaas rented a camcorder and shot this film in 1987 with several friends.
[edit] Sequel
It has spawned two direct sequels, Violent Shit II: Mother Hold My Hand and Violent Shit III: Infantry of Doom (Zombie Doom in the US), as well as two spinoffs - Nikos the Impaler (which features a similarly-masked villain) and Karl the Butcher vs. Axe. Although all five films feature a sword-wielding masked killer played by Schnaas, the films are otherwise unrelated.
[edit] Soundtrack
The makers of this film illegally used a song by the metal band W.A.S.P. entitled "The Torture Never Stops" during a scene in the movie. Due to Violent Shit's extremely low budget and international copyright laws, a lawsuit was never issued.[3]
The song "Red Red Wine" is also used illegally in a driving sequence.
[edit] References
- ^ Zombie Doom - Sexgore Mutants
- ^ "Trauma and Shit coming from Synapse". fangoria.com. http://www.fangoria.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=652:more-trauma-and-shit-coming-from-synapse&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=167. Retrieved 2011-03-31.
- ^ Violent Shit - Die Trilogie Special Edition
