Meat Butcher Baby (2009)

Meat Butcher Baby (2009) - Canada

Directed by: Yan Kaos

ABOUT THE FILM:

Meat Butcher Baby is a very obscure underground gore film from Canada made by Yan Kaos, an artist who specializes in gore and in the dark arts.

This 18-minute short follows a very simple plot. A masked lunatic murders and very slowly dismembers his female victim inside of a bathtub, removing her arms and gouging her eyes out in gut-wrenching, grisly detail until it all ends with her unrecognizable body in the tub.

REVIEW:

Meat Butcher Baby is an excellent sophomore effort by Kaos, succeeding his debut short film Wrong Dose/Bad Reactions.

Meat Butcher Baby plays out like a faux snuff film and is surprisingly effective in achieving this. Director Yan Kaos takes a very straight-to-the-point direction with this film, as the torture begins within only two minutes. Our masked assailant slowly saws the woman to pieces in a sea of blood, a mountain of gore as an unidentified camera operator documents the entire process.

The faux snuff feeling is further pushed by the grainy and ugly VHS-like picture quality, which really gives off an uneasy aura of reality to the whole thing.

Such atmosphere is pushed even further by the gore effects, crafted by both Kaos himself and Jordan St-Louis. The gore is very well-done and proves effective enough to get under the skin of even the most jaded gorehounds. In addition, to keep an air of realism, music is used at the very bare minimum and only makes appearances in the opening and closing credits. For music, we are treated to some great lo-fi thrash/punk tracks, performed by Kaos with his band Diearea as well as a band called Demonic Disaster.

Definitely hunt this one down if you're a fan of gore and faux-snuff type stuff.

RELEASES:

-Meat Butcher Baby has been released on several occasions, on both VHS and DVD, by Kaos under his label D.I.Y. Productions.