Marcus Koch  



Another one of those special effects people (Savini et al) with a love for extreme splatter effects that occasionally direct their own movies. Works with various horror directors and usually mixes it up with humorous characters, but what he really needs is splatstick.

Of Some Interest

100 Tears  
A psychotic clown runs around slaughtering dozens of people with a humongous meat cleaver while two tabloid reporters follow the trail. The tense, platonic relationship between the reporters is entertaining, the plot is barebones but doesn't have any of the idiotic twists of a typical slasher, the dialog is funny, the endless kills and gore level is extremely high, the acting is good, and there is an entertaining midget chase. Don't watch this for the horror, but for the gory entertainment.

Worthless

Rot  
Underground energetic movie about an insane scientist working at a morgue who develops a virus that makes people rot. When a punk girl visits the morgue for some necrophilia, she gets infected and in turn infects her wild, violent boyfriend. The rest of the movie involves chases and running around by various punk teenagers, the scientist, drug dealers and some secret agents. The punks are good, the gore is very sparse, the lighting is atrocious, and it would still be somewhat entertaining but for the scientist who is acted annoyingly over-the-top.

Snuff Perversions: Bizarre Cases of Death  
An anthology of snuff segments filmed (usually) realistically with home-video cameras in a gritty, very amateurish style with shaky cameras and horrible lighting, lending a sense of realism to the rape and murder going on onscreen. Teenagers kill for fun, girls are raped, cut and choked to death, people (mostly women) are killed for revenge, politics, dementia or fun, and some teenagers kill themselves on camera. The improvised style sometimes seems like a precursor to the ultra-realism of August Underground films. But all this is wrapped with a silly narration by a cop and psychiatrist that tries to be funny but is actually cheesy and dumb. So what's the point?




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