Aftermath is a 1994 Spain horror short film by Nacho Cerdá Starring Pep Tosar, Jordi
Tarrida and Ángel Tarris
Never released in the UK. It was screened though at the 1994 Eurofest in London.
Summary Review
A short film wherein a man working in a morgue mutilates and defiles one of the corpses.
I must say that after years of collecting obscure titles from the world over, gore-hound classics to underground
film noirs and black comedies, Nacho Cerdas short film Aftermath is probably the single most compelling picture I have ever seen.
It is easily the sickest film and most beautiful film at the same time. The special
effects are better than anything Tom Savini could dream up, and the cinematography is comparable to some of the great contemporary films in American history.
I love this film because it is a beautiful drug for the senses.
Visually it is breathtaking, and the absence of dialogue adds the perfect dramatic suspense and brings a stomach turning realism to the events portrayed. The most incredible aspect of the film however, is the incredible attention to detail in the sound
department. Every pin-drop has been captured so perfectly it elevates the grandeur of this ambitious effort and penetrates the sickness that pervades throughout this story.
This is an absolutely sickening and disturbing
masterpiece that provides more shocks that any Hong Kong CAT 3 film or any nasty 80s cult horror flick. It is also a beautifully photographed film with a big budget feel that is a must see for any aspiring film maker or film student.
Angel Guts is a 1979-1988 Japan series of erotic films
Distributors submitted titles from the series to the BBFC in 2002 but the BBFC required unacceptable cuts and the distributors abandoned the UK release.
Film list
Angel Guts: Red Classroom (1979)
Angel Guts: High School Coed (1978)
Angel Guts: Red Porno (1981)
Angel Guts: Red Dizziness (1988)
Angel Guts: Nami (1979)
Summary reviews: soft porn with a conscience
This series of erotic movies from the Japanese Nikkatsu Studios is collectively entitled "Angel Guts". The movies center around the theme of
rape. Although they were meant to be exploitative, they do elicit more thoughtful insights on the subject than the genre would suppose. They portray rape as violent and brutish but they do not sensationalise or glorify it. All 5 movies end tragically,
either in death or ruined lives. It's almost like soft-porn with a conscience. As soft-porn stories go, they are pretty interesting. My quibble here is with the censorship.
Although we do get scenes of sexual violence, there is absolutely no
depiction of genitalia or penetration to conform with Japanese law. Where these inadvertently appear onscreen, they are digitally fogged away. To me this kind of censorship is ludicrous, laughable and totally unacceptable, especially in a DVD release
that touts itself as a Collector's Edition. Even if it was censored in Japan, this DVD is an international version and we are not subject to Japanese laws. Why couldn't the producers have sourced for the original negatives? Why are we being foisted with
censored prints? What we have left are some scenes of toplessness. Although it's unrated, it would probably merit an R-rating, mainly for the violence. Because it's meant to be erotica, there are some scenes included simply for titillation purposes. Some
fairly kinky scenes include a girl using a condom
Submission to the BBFC and US release
Without a doubt in my mind ArtsMagic excelled and outdid themselves by collecting all five of
Nikkatsu's officially produced "Angel Guts" films from 1978-1988; but they went further still by bringing them to us uncut. Having had difficulties submitting Red Classroom and Red Dizziness to the BBFC back in 2002 they decided to abandon
plans for the UK market full stop, because they knew they wouldn't be able to release the best versions that they could. Their attentions turned and stayed stateside, and despite some hurdles along the way they managed to put together a fine package,
with the help of Japanese enthusiast Jasper Sharp.
Antfarm Dickhole is a 2011 US horror by Bill Zebub. With
Rich Carucci, Lindsey Graham and Adam Kuligowski.
It is hard to know why Bill Zebub films have never been released. It could be down to the uncommercial quality, but maybe also it could be down to the censor-baiting content.
Summary Review: WTF
Hailed as having the most WTF moments in movie history Antfarm Dickhole is the story of rampaging army ants that have nested inside a living human body. The unwilling host discovers that when bullies attack him, the ants defend
their nest.
The plot is original and hilarious. It has lots of people dying, and lots of naked women. It has one of the most obvious and offensive titles ever. The dialogue is very well written, the acting is poor acting, and the
script is strange. Brilliant!
Aphrodisiac! The Sexual Secret of Marijuana is a 1971 US adult documentary by Dennis Van Zak.
Uncut and MPAA X rated in the US but never released in the UK.
Summary Review: Blast form the Past
This is another lost oddity form the past - whether this is a good thing or not is highly debatable. A pseudo-documentary regarding the sexual benefits of reefer on the average Dick and Jane and its legal history in the U.S.,
along with crucial information about how to roll a joint for newbies and even grow, cultivate and harvest plants for the degenerate pot fiends among us, all dished up in a casserole of grindhouse sex rife with nudity that's more laughable than erotic.
Anthropophagous 2000 is a 1999 Germany horror thriller by Andreas
Schnaas. Starring Achim Kohlhase, Andre Sobottka and Dirk Thies.
Never released in the UK. Uncut and MPAA Unrated in the US.
Promotional Material
Nikos and his family are trapped during a heavy storm in a boat, leading to the unfortunate death of
their daughter Vicky. Nikos becomes mad with the desire to survive, and he begins to kill and eat his own wife. Nikos manages to reach the shore of a small island, but his appetite for human flesh has consumed him. A group of young people on vacation
have an unfortunate meeting with Niko. Will these youngsters make it out alive?
August Underground is a 2001 US horror by Fred Vogel Starring Kyle Dealman, Casey Eganey and Dan Friedman
Tagline: The sickest film ever made. Unsurprisingly neither this, or its two sequels have ever been considered for UK release. The film was released uncut and MPAA Unrated in the US.
From a review on Hollywood's Burning :
A difficult movie
August Underground is a new independent film from a pair of Pittsburgh filmmakers who took that one sequence from Henry and expanded it to feature-length. The filmmakers behind August
Underground posit a very real scenario that a pair of completely morally bankrupt young men, who could very well live next door to any of us, get a hold of a video camera and start to tape their crimes. Through the camera-eye, we see The Big Guy rape,
bludgeon, terrify, humiliate a half-dozen men and women. The Cameraman participates as far as his free hand will allow, only dropping the camera once to give his friend a hand.
What becomes even more horrifying, as the film goes along, is that,
as in Henry, these crimes were not committed just for the camera. The pair had been running rough-shod over others long before the 'record' button was pressed, but the camera is heightening the reality for them. The pair are totally believable, which
makes it all the more chilling. They giggle when a female victim begs for her life as they beat and humiliate her. The Big Guy wretches at the stench in his basement, coming from the rotting blood and shit of his prey, vomits as he saws off the arms and
legs of one guy who'd been dead a bit too long. The camera then becomes their constant companion, even after these opening scenes of depravity.
Don't be thrown off by the movie's low-tech look, either. This is intentional. Indeed, the filmmakers
had originally designed the film to be seen as a fourth-generation dub, something you might find discarded on a b us. They wanted viewers to think they'd stumbled onto a snuff film. The biggest problem they pair are going to
encounter are the so-called "raincoat crowd". These are the viewers who want to live out their own misogynistic fantasies through movies, the ones that keep the sleaze-soft-core rape-n-murder people in business. It will be a while before August
Underground is perceived as something other than exploitation. Once it is appreciated for the gut-wrenching a difficult movie that it is, then it will start to earn a following.
Sequels
There are two sequels
that have also never been released
August Underground's Mordum is a 2003 US horror by Jerami Cruise, Killjoy, Michael Todd Schneider Starring Cristie Whiles, Fred Vogel and Michael Todd Schneider
Obsessed with inflicting pain on others while recording everything on tape, the brutal serial killer, Peter Mountain, makes friends with sadomasochistic Crusty, and her mentally challenged brother, Maggot, after the events
of
August Underground's Penance is a 2007 US horror by Fred Vogel Starring Cristie Whiles, Fred Vogel and Shelby Lyn Vogel
Bonded by their sick love for perversion and brutal depravity, the
psychopaths from hell, Peter, and his equally vile girlfriend, Crusty, are still on the hunt for prey, after the shocking events of
