Difficult and exploitive low-budgeter has quite the reputation around horror circles (even if not many have seen it) as an extreme and quite disturbing film. And for the most part it is.

Fresh out of jail, a bitter Tony Hawkins (Steven Morrison) decides to make some snuff films and sell them to a group of rich perverts. So he recruits some friends to help and sets about making movies of rape, torture and humiliation. But, of course, they get too into it and it all leads to a quite unsettling finale where they take their "customers" hostage.

Very hard to recommend, this makes for difficult viewing with a lot of stark moments (including a very gruelling "surgery" sequence), and it skirts sleaziness; but it's still strangely compelling and it will make you wonder if the people behind it all (who've never been heard from again) were trying to make a point or just trying to make the "gross-out" film to end all "gross-out" films.

Like 1975's Blood Sucking Freaks - completely reprehensible, yet it draws you in (and it's done better than BSF is). Director Janos shows a pretty decent visual style and the fact the filmstock is gritty adds to it also. Definitely not for all.

Directed By: Victor Janos.
Written By: Brian Laurence.

Starring: Steven Morrison, Dennis Crawford, Lawrence Bornman, Janet Sorley.