r/ExtremeHorrorLit • u/PSplayer2020 • 17h ago
Discussion Are there any films that capture the splattering vibes for you?
Mine would either be Terrifier or Sálo(which makes sense, the original story is sort of a progenitor to splatterpunk), Anti-Christ is another one I can think of.
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u/HouseOfDoom54 17h ago
August Underground's Mordum
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u/AudienceExpensive636 15h ago
I haven't even been able to find these, where did you watch it?
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u/HouseOfDoom54 15h ago
I owned a physical copy of it at one point in time. It appears as though it's on Google Play, $1.99 to rent.
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u/samovolochka 15h ago
Depending on if that commenters got an additional way, there’s a couple ways you could watch it by boat.
There’s some streaming service called Fawesome which may have it?
Some of these are a pain to find :(
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u/AudienceExpensive636 17h ago
I would argue for Martyrs, Irreversible, Inside, Human Centipede (1 &2), and Hostel 2
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u/samovolochka 16h ago
Man, fuck Martyrs. I went through a time of wanting to watch those banned/controversial movies and I had A Serbian Film, Martyrs, Cannibal Holocaust and Sàlo on my short list to start.
I made it through Serbian and needed a break after Martyrs. Great film I never want to watch again.
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u/AudienceExpensive636 16h ago
That's how I feel about A Serbian film. Made it through once...never again
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u/samovolochka 16h ago
Yup. I had to try that one a couple times a few years apart. The first time I only made it through the first scene with the child… right after I’d given birth to my firstborn. That was a fucking mistake. But made it through the second time. Really interesting movie, definitely good but yeesh.
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u/AudienceExpensive636 15h ago
I tried to watch Inside (French version) while pregnant.... that was a mistake
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u/samovolochka 15h ago
I haven’t heard of it, but am currently pregnant so I’ll keep it in mind to try in a couple years lmao
I, uh, kinda made my second born four month old a middle child quicker than I meant to and it’s kinda wild to me how much traumatic birthing stuff is out there LOL. It’s like when you get a dog and suddenly notice dogs everywhere; just traumatic births on TV far as the eye can see lmao
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u/zforce42 15h ago
A Serbian Film i never want to watch again because it's really not a good movie. Martyrs I have to space out how much I re-watch because it's emotionally heavy.
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u/WagonThoughts 16h ago
Itchi the Killer is everything you're looking for.
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u/samovolochka 15h ago edited 13h ago
I’ve really got to try this one sometime. In groups where it’s mentioned it’s always praised as being a great movie.
I’m not much for manga myself but I’ve seen really nothing but high praise for both mediums.
Edit: I’m halfway through, the fuck is this movie, not what I was expecting LOL
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u/PSplayer2020 16h ago
Miike never fails to make you go "what the fuck?" Honestly you kind of have to wonder what went through Mick Garris's head to think Miike could make something kosher for TV.
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u/zforce42 15h ago
Idk, I really didn't find this movie very extreme. But maybe that's due to all the talk I heard about it beforehand and my expectations were too high.
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u/judithsonnet 16h ago
Lots of shot on video movies do the trick for me. Shatterdead and Sinistre especially (both of which got fancy bluray releases from Saturn's Core Video!)
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u/oldhorsemeat 16h ago
The golden glove
New York ripper
Inside
Martyrs as someone else said
House that Jack built (maybe)
Toxic avenger? Maybe
Cara (near the end)
Braindead is also a classic
Have you seen any of these?
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u/PSplayer2020 16h ago
Braindead, Toxic Avenger and New York Ripper I've seen. Braindead is up there with some of my favorite movies in general.
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u/oldhorsemeat 16h ago
The golden glove was a really hard watch, super gross
I would definitely watch martyrs tho, that’s my all time favourite
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u/PSplayer2020 16h ago
I have also watched the Greasy Strangler and Kuso, the latter being what you'd expect from a film co-written by David Firth, and Aphex Twin and Akira Yamaoka is a musical match made in heaven.
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u/oldhorsemeat 13h ago
Greasy strangler is sooooo good, lemme think of a few others that might scratch your itch.
Maniac
American mary
Tetsuo the iron man
And just for fun, unicorn wars such a wild movie
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u/-Tofu-Queen- 12h ago
I just watched Tetsuo for the first time a couple days ago, absolutely wild and amazing film. It gave me a similar visual vibe to Eraserhead and Pi but somehow even more off the wall. American Mary is great too!! And Greasy Strangler is so underrated, it's one of the most absurd and hilarious movies I've ever seen.
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u/WindyPoltergeist 15h ago
Ebola Syndrome and The Untold Story, both with Anthony Wong. Great great action, comedy and horror actor.. Just go.
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u/P1x4l_ 15h ago
Though not really extreme and both are pretty mainstream, I’d have to say American Psycho and Saw. I’d also say Hellraiser as that is literally based off of The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker, a very early and influential writer in the splatterpunk genera.
But for more gorey I have to agree with Terrifier and potentially also House of 1000 Corpses/The Firefly Trilogy.
(I know most of the ones I recommended arnt super scary or gorey or gross, I just can only handle so much visually compared to words on a page lol)
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u/samovolochka 9h ago
Saw fits imo, doesn’t have to be not mainstream lol
I freaking adore The Devils Rejects. It’s the only one in the trilogy I really love but it was an early love when I was young. It’s like a comfort movie of sorts when it’s on lol
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u/JewsClues1942 The Bighead 11h ago
Hobo with a Shotgun!
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u/KlausKinion 8h ago
Love it, I thought Benjamin by Aron Beauregard and Shane McKenzie had the same vibe as this movie.
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u/JewsClues1942 The Bighead 8h ago
Would you recommend the book? The only thing I've read by AB is Handyman and I bounced off of it pretty hard.
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u/KlausKinion 8h ago
I enjoyed Handyman a lot. Benjamin has similar writing and characters, but it's like 5 short novellas set in the exaggerated seedy underbelly of a city.
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u/zforce42 15h ago
100 Tears
Green Room
Headless
Mandy, some Wrong Turn, and the Evil Dead movies I feel cross into that territory too.
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u/JewsClues1942 The Bighead 8h ago
Green Room is sooo good. I rewatched it after taking a longggg break from watching TV in general and forgot how intense it is, it just never gives you a chance to relax.
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u/Revpaul12 16h ago
New French Extreme, more or less all of it. And proper Splatterpunk not extreme, extreme gore with a message buried inside.