Violencia Gore (2005)

Violencia Gore (2005) - Spain

Directed by: Vick Campbell

ABOUT THE FILM:

Spanish cult filmmaker Vick Campbell got his roots in filmmaking when he made a handful of amateur horror films in the late 90's. It all began in 1997 when Vick made his debut with Prologore, a 9 minute short film about a psychotic murderer and a pair of zombies.

Vick Campbell would continue to make short films and features as years went by, slowly honing his craft and working hard to make better and more entertaining splatter shorts while keeping the trash factor intact. Violencia Gore is a prime example of Vick's work in making trashy splatter movies.

The short is about a mental patient who is set free from the psychiatric ward, as they have too many new patients and no longer have enough room to accommodate him. He is set free back into society with the trust that he won't commit anymore crimes. Big mistake.

REVIEW:

Violencia Gore is one of those amateur horror movies that very much plays out like an homage to Violent Shit and the works of Andreas Schnaas, and has everything it needs to fall onto that spectrum. A lunatic set free/escaped from psychiatric ward? It has it. The perpetrator stalking his victims in the woods? It has it. Victims who are either blind or dumb enough to not see the killer stalking them in plain sight? It has it. A rubber doll being ripped apart? It has it. A handful of grotesque and brutal slaughters, dismemberments and genital mutilations? It most certainly has it!

So addressing the elephant in the room, sure the story isn't the most original thing ever. But let's be honest, with a title like Gore Violence, who's really expecting storytelling in its prime? Most people are here for.. well.. gory violence, right? And at its near 30 minute run time, the movie has plenty of it. Each gore scene is pretty drawn out and some of the ideas here are definitely sick. A woman's breast is cut off, a guy has a knife shoved up his ass; pretty nasty ideas! The effects, however, are quite a mixed bag. Some of the effects look really good, but when heads have to be cut off or torn up.. well, let's just say the fake heads look pretty legendary.

Yeah.

But that aside, I very much enjoyed this little short. It's disgusting, it's funny and it's something I'm likely to return to soon.

RELEASES:

-Violencia Gore was recently released as part of "The Vick Campbell Short Film Collection: Vol. 1" from Toxic Filth Video. The set comes with four shorts including Violencia Gore, the equally trashy Cerebros Podridos, and then Exercismos en Sants and Barbarie Carnicera.

-The short was also included as on extra for the limited edition director's cut DVD of Derangement, released by Fusionator Productions.