Gutterballs (Ws Unct)
Manufacturer : TLA
Rating : 3.0
Reviews : 17
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From the director of LIVE FEED comes the most outrageous, gross-out flick of the year! A brutally sadistic rape leads to a series of bizarre gory murders during a midnight disco bowl-a-rama at a popular bowling alley. One by one, players of two teams meet blood-drenched gruesome deaths at the hand of a black bowling-gloved masked killer. This alley will run red with blood by sunrise and the shocking twist that reveals the killer will shock even the most jaded viewer!
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About five minutes into this rape-vengeance-slasher you’ll know whether this movie’s for you.
If you last more than fifteen you’ll actually be surprised at how much gore, camp, sleaze,
sex, rape, creative deaths, & undesirable characters can fit onto one disc.
I (an admitted gorehound) thought it was totally sick, way over the top, & campy in every way, shape, and form.
The very definition of shock-schlock.
I had to walk out of the room during the bowling pin penetration scene, while my wife stayed & watched with disgust.
(yes, you read that correctly)
It’s definitely a throwback to bad 80s theme-slashers the likes of William Lustig flicks,
(whose movie, Maniac, they spoofed on the back cover)
with a hint of Joe D’Amato.
But it was also pornographic at times, not erotic either – sleazy,
Like Divine from Pink Flamingos sleazy.
If I found out that this was released by Troma (it wasn’t ) I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised.
I will say the sound was waaaay the heck off,
like they had one microphone, and everyone was trying to shout into it at once.
The characters were so annoying you couldn’t wait for them to die.
I wanted to bash that one guys face in myself,
he kept smiling that real irritating smile, like a mentally-deranged squirrel.
The fun part is every character is so undesirable, that when they die.. you cheer.
And rightfully so as gore is the real star here.
You can see they were trying to be creative with the deaths,
while still maintaining a certain level of shock.
As such every death is bowling/sex themed.
But as this was a rape/vengeance tale in a bowling alley you can understand why every death was bowling/sex themed.
The bowling shoe scene being the most retarded,
and the ball waxer scene being the best!!!!
This was actually a step back from the overly gory Live Feed, Nicholson’s previous effort, which felt more professional, and restrained.
But it was a step back I found myself enjoying.
4 out of 5
MORAL OF THE STORY:
A perfect game is one your opponent can’t walk away from.
OBITUARY:
Long rape scene, bowling pin penetration, death by sixty nine, genital mutilation, deep-bowling pin-throat,
head in a ball waxer, bowling shoe strangulation, eye stabbing, crushed head, & multiple shotgun deaths.
ALSO RECOMMENDED:
Live Feed, Hanger, Maniac, Murder Set Pieces, Seed, Hatchet, Hostel, Laid to Rest, I Spit on your Grave, Baise Moi,
Freeze Me, Irreversible, Street Trash, Erotic Nights of the Living Dead, Emanuelle & the Cannibals, Ms.45
I hate the fact that I can’t help but look at this movie from two different angles… My personal opinion and How I think some others may view it. My personal opinion, this movie is hot garbage. This is without a doubt one of the absolute worst movies I have ever wasted an hour and a half of my life on. There is absolutely nothing I even remotely enjoyed about Gutterballs whatsoever. Two minutes into this movie and I wanted every single character to die because of how insanely annoying they were. The “killer”, while at least original, is cheesy and just plain stupid. The dialogue and acting are on par with some of the worst I have ever seen in my entire life. (I understand this is low budget but this is seriously awful.) The movie goes a lot like this – Bad acting, bad acting, nudity, rape, rape with a bowling pin, bad acting, death, nudity, death, nudity, bad acting, etc., roll credits. I’m sure fans of Gutterballs are gonna think that I just “don’t get it.” That may be true and thats fine, I don’t want to “get it.” As a matter of fact, I don’t ever want to “get” a movie this bad again. With that out of the way, on to my other point of view. This is what Eli Roth would be making if not for the backing of Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. The only difference between this and a movie like Hostel is about 30 million dollars and 2 big name friends in the movie industry. Gutterballs follows the same formula, “Shock” people with loads of naked women, buckets of blood, and painful scenes involving certain parts of the male body. If you like Eli Roth and Hostel-like movies, you might actually enjoy Gutterballs. I personally don’t like either, this movie really makes me wish we could give zero star reviews.
Gutterballs is beautiful, it’s savage, gory and nasty in the worst, and best, way imaginable. If Ryan Nicholson had made Gutterballs twenty-five years ago this film would be hailed today as “disgusting,” “disturbing” and “controversial.” It would have been lumped in with amazing exploitation horror like Maniac, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Last House on the Left, I Spit On Your Grave, Friday The 13th and Cannibal Holocaust. Gutterballs would have been a video nasties candidate through and through; something this grotesque only comes around every so often.
Now, I’m not going to sit around and pontificate about the raw exploitation on display in this film, if you don’t know what you’re getting into after the first fifteen minutes you’re not paying close enough attention. Nicholson, in my opinion, has crafted himself the kind of sick little underground gem that’s going to have goremongers stealing from their grandmother’s purses to purchase.
The acting ranged from OKAY to bad to HORRIBLE which isn’t really a turn-off for me considering I’m a fan of 70’s exploitation. If you’re expecting stellar acting from a film called “Gutterballs” you’re DEFINITELY not paying attention. I was just happy the actors could walk, talk and blink their eyes at the same time! The real draw here is gonna be the possibility of nudity and, like any good slasher film, a major body count and, thankfully, Nicholson & Company don’t disappoint! We get some nifty nudity and some of the best gore and kill sequences I’ve seen in years. Everything about this film was over-the-top and uncalled for…and that’s a good thing indeed.
The movie is overly gory with no real story line I found it an OK movie. Lots of T and A though not that good.
Rape scene was awesome and gory, best i have scene even though we all know rape is most definitely a bad thing this movie made it great in a weird creepy way.
Buy it if you like snuff films or if you like a lot of gore in a D grade movie.
But don’t expect great because it’s just OK.
“Gutterballs” is a massive improvement on Ryan Nicholson’s weak, “hostel” wannabe, “Live Feed” and completely delivered.
If you hate gore drenched, nasty, sick, twisted, exploitative flicks then simply don’t watch.
But if you fancy the idea of a well made (technically dubious dialogue recording aside), truly BALLS-OUT exploitation flick done with a fan’s enthusiasm and a 70’s/80’s retro sensibility, topped off with wonderfully inventive kills and superb gore FX then here it is.
The acting is also not ‘bad’, as some reviewers have said. It’s amateur for sure but that does not mean bad.
Although (of course, NOTHING AT ALL EVER COULD BE) not up to the glorious standards of John Waters’ movie acting it does have that same fun, go for it, heart in the right place amateur appeal for the most part.
Even the expletive filled script works in the context of the film and it’s characters.
Exploitation can fans rejoice, while all others can pass on by and do themselves, and the rest of us all, a big favour.