Ruptured Review: Grotesk

Country of origin- Denmark
Year of release- 2013
Director- Peter J. Bonneman
Stars- Heine Sorensen, Rock Uglen, Stacy Sick, Mads Jensen 

  

The film begins with an emergency distress call from a NASA spacecraft plummeting to earth, a good way to start any film.  AS we watch the huge explosion from the spacecraft as it crashes into the sea, the opening credits begin to roll. During the credits we see a horribly mutated and mutilated human washed ashore dressed in what appears to be fishing overalls. The mutant stands up and begins to head inland where he finds a young couple sunbathing on the beach. After dispatching these unfortunate people with extreme prejudice, and an axe, he begins to head towards a large caravan park. Also heading towards the caravan park is what I think might be are “hero” but is actually an idiotic racist piece of shit. A showdown between these two is inevitable, but for now the mutant fisherman has plenty of other scum bags to dispatch in many varied ways. It may not seem like much of a plot, but the film is only 64 minutes long so give it a break.

I went into this one knowing absolutely nothing, I actually bought a copy of this film at Comic Con without having ever heard of it before. Since then I haven’t been able to find much about it online, and there doesn’t even seem to be a site where you can buy it from. However if you ever see a copy of this for sale you should pick it up, because I had a great deal of fun with this one. From the Necrostom levels of cheap and cheesy gore to the sickly green and yellow filters used in the cameras this film is a blast! It delivers buckets of splatter with weird characters and a grimy setting.

It also delivers Troma style bad taste with one scene bringing a whole new meaning to “looking inside yourself”. The film does have a few problems though, it suffers from two common problems of no-budget cinema and that is poor acting and slightly off putting cinematography. However because the run time is so short and the film is so fun I can overlook these issues. Overall this film is great fun, it pays a fun and faithful homage to the work of directors like Herschell Gordon Lewis, Andreas Schnaas, Olaf Ittenbach and the early work of Peter Jackson. If you’re looking for an over the top grimy gore fest with a hint of bad taste, then look no further. I give this one 7/10, if you can find it, watch it.