Deathgasm

Awful disappointment, and I’m not the type of horror fan who gets very excited about a metal horror-splatter. Based on the responses from festivals, it seems that everybody liked Deathgasm, and with New Zealand setting the bar pretty high for horror comedies last year (Housebound, What We Do In the Shadows), I was expecting at least some user friendly, fun silliness. If only! It was SO sad! And predictable! Really, I didn’t laugh even once throughout the whole film, and when I tried to fight my boredom guessing what would be the next embarrassing attempt at humour the creators would come up with, I was right several times. The gore and the make-up are fairly good (one star for that, at least), but it all feels boring and repetitive. All the possessed look the same, and then they are stabbed, chopped or cut with a chainsaw followed by bucketfuls of blood, rinse and repeat. Boring, sad, bad, avoid. (02.10.2015)

The start of this movie is absolutely brilliant. Any fan of ultra blackened death metal will surely be delighted. But, this excitement will be cut short when you fully realize that it is actually a splatter movie and the death-metal catchphrases are a bit too much. At the same time, the story is off-base in the right way. The actors are perfectly wacky and overall it has such a distinctive atmosphere that you almost feel like it is a part of death brutal grindcore metal. In the end, I admit that I will always be indecisive on whether the movie is humorous or a splatter. Unfortunately, I do not accept both. (23.06.2016)

Ich kann nicht anders, aber mir hat die erste Hälfte mehr Spaß gemacht als die zweite. Die klassische Pubertät, in der es nicht an Mobbing, blonden Mädels und Liebe zum Metal fehlt, wurde ziemlich sympathisch und vor allem witzig dargeboten - in drei Fällen habe ich wirklich laut gelacht. Der Splatter-Teil, in dem es Kämpfe mit Dämonen gibt, bietet zwar viel künstliches Blut, Eingeweide und neben der Motorsäge auch ungewöhnliche Waffen (ja, ich spreche von künstlichen Vögeln und Venus-Kugeln), aber die Masken würde ich eher als durchschnittlich einstufen: Der Hauptschurke Aeloth riecht sogar leicht nach Peinlichkeit. Aber es ist die richtige Dummheit, daran besteht kein Zweifel. (02.06.2016)

Pecka is not really good. It has too many elements that bothered me a little - the main one being the digital effects, which are simply awful in some places. And the pacing is not that great either. But the topic is not bad, and the execution is not bad either, and here and there you can even have a good laugh. The parody is done nicely here, you don't even feel like it's awkward, like in classic horror parodies. (10.12.2015)