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1989 - 72m.
Germany

This movie wins the truth in advertising award with that title. It certainly is violent. And it certainly is...you get the picture.

This first effort from German no-budget gore slinger Andreas Schnaas introduces us to Karl The Butcher (who would later grace us in two sequels to this!) as he wanders the countryside cannibalizing and killing at random.

That's about as much plot as you're going to get out of this as Schnaas piles on oodles of amateurish gore (with this pinkish thick liquid pretending to be blood), lots of really bad attempts at humour (or maybe that's the horribly written subtitles that just make it seem that way) and basically flips the bird at anyone who gets offended easily.

As with Schnaas' other efforts there's plenty of padding to attempt to hide the fact this has absolutely no storyline.

Not quite as rotten as his later Zombie 90 but pretty bad nonetheless this sports lousy editing, subtitles that are at times impossible to read and such poorly staged gore atrocities as a penis cutting, a tasteless eviseration of a female victim and even our pal Karl crawling into a crucified body.

This isn't really for anyone but I will admit to one sort of effective moment where blood is spraying into our killers face - but that may be a fluke.

Followed by two sequels.

Directed By: Andreas Schnaas.
Written By: Not Credited.

Starring: Gabi Bazner, Wolfgang Hinz, Volker Mechter, Christian Biallas.