#3 - The Burning Moon (1997)
This is a low-budget, shot-on-video German splatter film that has developed a cult following due to its massive amounts of violence and gore. Like the unfortunate fellow on the poster, this movie split into two parts: in the first, an escaped mental patient goes on a murderous blind date. In the second, a priest who is secretly a murderer and a satanist finds himself descending into Hell. The plots don't really matter, though - this movie is all about the gore.
I'm not opposed to gross-out blood and violence in a film (after all, Dead Alive is one of my all-time favorites), but gore just for the sake of gore doesn't do anything for me. Other than the special effects, everything else about this movie is awful. The stories are weak and only serve to take us from one gross scene to another. It's hard for me to tell if the acting is bad, since they are speaking German, but I'm gonna go ahead and guess that it is atrocious. Despite the buckets of blood and guts, which actually look kind of realistic once in a while, I never found the movie scary or even all that shocking.
The last 10 minutes or so are pretty interesting, though. After the priest descends into Hell, the rest of the film is basically just lots and lots of gore and blood and demons and torture. Most of the impressive/disturbing special effects in the film are in this sequence, including someone getting a power drill to the teeth, and the guy getting torn down the middle as seen in the poster above. It feels like something that would be playing in the background at a Rob Zombie concert. This sequence alone makes this one of the goriest films ever made, but in my mind doesn't make up for the rest of it being such garbage.
Not recommended. If you really like crazy gross gore, try to find the last 10 minutes and watch that, but it's not worth sitting through the entire film for it.
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