Disturbing Exploitations

If you are an avid reader, then you knew already that A Serbian Film is the most extreme movie I have seen yet. There are several others with infamous underground cult status of which I would like to talk about now. Because let me tell you; I have seen some serious disturbing, shocking and fucked up ones. These are some of the toughest movies to watch out there.

Usually, storylines, acting and other normal cinematic terms do not apply with exploitation movies. Controversial topics, specific target audiences, gross out or any kind of disturbing issues DO apply here:

Men Behind the Sun

The "hunt" for the most shocking movies ever continues. It is kind of a different hunt from horror movies such as The Exorcist and Eraserhead though, which are my favorite horror movies so far. For me, there is a clear difference in the genre inbetween movies such as Salo & Men Behind the Sun and these two I just mentioned.

Now that that speech of my current thoughts is out of the way, let me start with the latest review. Men Behind the Sun is about the Japanese during World War 2 doing terrible human experiments on their neighbour country people.

The grim atmosphere and it's low quality of dialogue as well as the plotline were annoying, but the story was atleast more interesting to follow than other exploitations. Plus, it can be argued, or just be pure opinion, that the disturbing scenes in Men Behind the Sun are some of the worst out there.

Atleast in my case, the scenes were more varied, more gruesome and I will most likely remember these better for their shocking nature. The infamous cat scene was no trouble for me to observe, instead, I felt more sad by the boy who died before the cat.

The Japanese had some sick sense into making bacterial weapons, but I can't blame them in the same way, because viruses are very deadly to mankind. What would you do in times of war? Right, innovate and experiment.

Their guinea pigs just so happened to be humans, and that my friends is the summary of this movie, which is a Japanese concentration camp(Squadron 731) full of "marut's"(Translated into specimen I guess) which get experimented and exploited on by the Japanese force of Squadron 731. In overall, another movie which is not for everyone.

The Untold Story

Heh, this is one sick movie, and it is supposed to be based on real events as well. The Untold Story is a mix of the funny cops investigating the brutal case while trying to impress their chief Lee, who almost always has hookers around his shoulders, and of course the brutal murders done by the criminal himself, Wong Chi Hang.

Taking place mostly at the local Police Department and the crime scene itself, the Eight Immortals Restaurant. Oh, this movie is not really about the plot itself though. It is more about the criminal and his crimes.

Although the movie did not talk about why Wong would really murder so many people, be a cannibal himself, and make human pork meat out of his victims(Other than some money business for some of his victims), it still was interesting to see this murderer work in the shadows, trying to hide from the cops because of him being a wanted criminal already, before he start murdering a whole family inside the restaurant, including it's owner, and use their meat as food(most likely).

Anthony Wong playing the killer felt realistic and interesting for me. Wong Chi Hang was one insane motherfucker, who always did not want to get messed up by anyone. And if they did, he would give them brutal punishment, and show them who's boss.

And when the cops are quite sure that Wong really killed a whole family, Wong literally gets fucked up and beaten up by everyone he encounters. Many beat him up, including the angry brother of the previous owner of the restaurant, and although it was cruel and evil to look at, it did left a rightful feeling for me though, watching the cops and fellow prisoners beat him up so many times.

After all, he did murder a whole family full of children. Although Wong is pretty beaten and fucked up many times, he still tells everyone that no one will get him. And after a failed suicide attempt(which was pretty intense to look at, since it looked painful), he finally suicides by stealing a sharp object out of the hospital.

And that marks the end of the Untold Story really. The movie did not bore me, as the killer and the murder scenes were interesting to watch. In overall, this is the most famous of the Category III movies, which is a genre only for either the most violent or the most erotic titles out there.

Cannibal Holocaust

Continueing on with one of the most controversial and shocking movies ever, Cannibal Holocaust. The raw footage of this movie was delightful, and yes, this movie was pretty intense.

Now that I think of it, comparisons are hard to make with shocking movies such as this one and Salo plus Men behind the Sun, even though pretty much all of them are effective in their own different ways.

Cannibal Holocaust is about a documentary which gets found by a professor. The 4 americans inside the documentary are curious indeed, as they perform in many cruel acts when walking inside the green inferno, looking for cannibals.

Yes, this is also the most infamous animal killing movie. And the most infamous of all, the turtle scene, was fascinating to see. What I mean by that is that I haven't seen such a brutal animal killing as that before yet.

I don't have any problems that they got killed during this movie though, it might sound wrong, but then again, for others it might sound right. As the professor reviews the footage with collegaues back in New York, one particular act is stuck in my head: why did they burn the village together with many cannibals?

As "clean" as it may look like compared to the many gory scenes in the movie, this moment is possibly the guiltiest act for me. Apparently they did this in order to stage a scene for their documentary, to get more profit or something.

What a manipulation, which is also shown in the next controversial scene, where the males rape one of the cannibal women and later claim that the natives in the end impaled her because of an obscure sexual rite.

Their obsession with the documentary itself gets even worse when they decide NOT to rescue their fellow partners while they get fucked up and killed by the cannibals. And then the movie ends, all americans are dead in the footage.

Back in New York a man says a strong sentence, that is, all of the footage must be burned. In overall, still to this day, a very effective shock movie, presented with a raw quality to it. Oh, and that happy music was so inappropiate for me.

Aftermath

The continuation of looking for the most shocking movies in existence, this time Flok takes a quick look at Aftermath, a short movie about the daily life inside the morgue, excluding the aftermath part then, or isn't it? DUM DUM DUM DUM.

This very bloody picture has zero dialogue, little music which felt more at home in churches, necrophillia and some dog eating a human's heart, which is not cannibalistic. Anyway, Aftermath's presentation is good, but it isn't more shocking for me than for example Men Behind the Sun's evil autopsy. In any case I was content with this and before I knew it the movie was over. We're talking about a short movie yes but it was still 30+ minutes which went by quickly.

Salo or the 120 days of Sodom

Unusual made movie. Definitely near the top of one of the movies which is not for everyone. Salo is infamous for it's extreme scenes throughout the movie. The story shows an experimental area ruled by fascists somewhere in Italy, who enjoy every moment of toying with their "specimen", be it boy or girl.

There's lots of naked bodies and lust moments, which I previously saw in Caligula as well, but perhaps these are more disturbing. We follow the fascists, the storytellers, the guards and the "specimen", who all participate into these experiments.

Personally I had no problem sitting through the whole movie while I was normally eating up my dinner plus dessert, but it is advised by many not to. The film is extremely controversial, and the climax features quick shocking scenes for the viewers.

It seems during this climax that every fascist finds it very intriguing to observe these torture and rape scenes...In conclusion, Salo is a film that should only be experienced by those who want to have seen this movie and be glad that they saw it.

The ending after that was pointless though in my opinion. I cannot say that I was dissapointed with Salo's content, because the promises reviewers have said about this movie are pretty much true, but I can number atleast 1 more movie on the top of my head which was both a better movie plus a more disturbing one, which is The Untold Story.

In any case, as I said before, if you are on the hunt for the most disturbing/horrifying/freaky/gorefest/disgusting movies ever filmed, Salo would be a good start, or a good end to some, heheh.

Ebola Syndrome

Anthony Wong is at it again, he is pretty much my favorite Hong Kong villain right now. The opening scene begins nasty. An early quote is quite funny, "I am killing them, isn't that ok?" with Wong's expression.

The tongue scene looked really fake, too bad. After the opening credits we get to see frogs being sliced up from close. Kai is working in South Africa now while he is still wanted for the murders of 3 people.

The English portions have finally been improved, but it's still poor. Argh, seems that this is the first time I witness the very disturbing nature of employees jacking off and ejaculating inside food. Yuck if I think about it.

Ebola Syndrome on a whole is a very dirty movie, really. Further on we see that Kai and a collegaue need pig meat so they go to a local tribe which is busy with a dirty ritual of recklessly decapitating chicken.

Some people there also seem to be dead, possibly because of Ebola. Kai himself hates bullies. He feels that he gets bullied again by his current boss, so then he leaves him alone with a wrecked car. What happens next is very nasty, he sees his chance to rape his first black female, but it turns out that she is heavily infected and his dick is somehow stuck inside.

He then gets splashed with a disease and proceeds to smash her head to bits. More stress moments happen, and Kai is then sick of his boss's wife(Like before) as they are sick of his non discipline behavior and stinky smell.

He attempts to rape her(Oh Anthony so traditional of you), but his boss comes just in time to stop the mess. But things get even worse, and in the end the boss's head falls off when Kai is busy stomping the door on him and then dragging him out.

And before that he was walking around confused with a stabbed eye. Kai returns to the wife by humiliating her and eventually eating a piece(!) of her cheek and then drops the round edge of a table on her neck, proceeding by spitting out the meat.

My god, this director was definitely enjoying it all. "I killed everyone and still I am working and cleaning up." Wong pulls an Untold Story as he is seen yet again making human meat feasible and then selling it.

Oh, the humor is also still here, especially when Wong is talking crappy English, sounding like a bad tarzan from the jungle. Wong kills A LOT of people indirectly by sneezing, close contact etc.(Slow motion with high tension music scenes confirms this), but also directly because of his "African buns". 

Victims of the Ebola Virus get fucked up by seizures, heavy internal and external bleedings and basically just dying. So many scenes where people get seizures...Yeah, Ebola Syndrome definitely beats The Untold Story in my opinion.

The later might have a whole family killing and nasty self cutting scenes, but the former is the ultimate CAT III movie for me. Disgusting, disturbing, gory, sexual abusive, homicidal, creepy soundtrack and extreme violence. Bon appetit. Great for horror/extreme/CAT III fans.