Howdy all and brace yourselves, for we
are about to embark on the impossible. We shall journey together
through an Andreas Schnaas film. What's that? You've never heard
of this gore enthuasitic director of German horror? Well a few
highlights before we go into the fray then. Andreas Schnaas
(Violent Sh!T, Violent Sh!t 2, Violent Sh!t 3: Zombie Doom,
Violent Sh!t 4.0 Carl the Butcher Vs Axe) is a gore fanatic
but not really what you would call a well rounded director. Most of
his characters last about 15 to 20 seconds worth of dialogue hastily
thrown together and then a gore gag happens to them so this could
also be translation issues but I kinda doubt that. Now it has been
on the request of some of the readers that I tackle this guy and so I
thought his American release would be easier than anything else.
This is Nikos the Impaler a.k.a. Violent Sh!t 4 a.k.a. Nikos a.k.a.
Survival of the Dead.
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| I got yer Angela Baker right here! |
Okay first off this was very difficult
for me to find. The local DVD shops including the fricking 5 dollar
bins didn't seem to have it. Hell, I even went to Wal-Mart and
Target to see if they had alternative title copies (Which is pretty
damn common) but no such luck. So yeah I had to Netflix this movie.
Not exactly thrilled about that but let's get on with the film
itself. Nikos (Andreas Schnaas) is a Romanian (Transylvanian
at this time) barbarian in well, hiding out in either a natural cave
or a catacomb is been persecuted and ended for his evil deeds.
Apparently, a thousand years ago raping and pillaging was frowned
upon as a bad thing. He claims he will rise again like some D&D
wizard/warrior then flails about in his own entrails.
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| The armor is a bit tight in the crotch. Just saying. |
Cut to Professor Frank Heller (Joe
Zaso of 5 Dead on the Crimson Canvas, The Bloody Ape, Addicted to
Murder 3: Blood Lust, Rage of the Werewolf, Demonium and Virus X)
giving a riveting lecture to his students about this very timeline,
its occupants and the general behavior of the time. The lovely
fellow professor Sandra Kane ( Felissa Rose of Taken Alive,
Bloodhounds II, Dinner and Driving, Daybreak, Nikos the Impaler,
Zombiegeddon, The Drone Virus and Satan's Playground)
and Frank having been dating and dragging her to Violent
Sh!t 3: Infantry of Doom
is a date movie!?! No seriously, she says if I can handle that I can
handle an art exhibit of ancient Romanian butchery and violence.
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| Grandma Rotty!?! NOoOoOoOoOOooo!!!! |
Observing an exhibit of Romanian art
and ancient tapestries Daisy (Brenda Abbandandolo of Nikos the
Impaler and Under Surveillance) has the horrible task of
being the know-it-all expert in this ancient history and given some
of the doofiest lines imaginable. We have a stereotypical
conservative gay couple disgusted at the the rending and depictions
of violence on the canvas that I got a slight chuckle out of that.
This film is 2003 so really there are ways of people watching and
observing a culture you know NEXT TO NOTHING about. Thank you
writer Ted Geoghegan (Demonium, Barricade, Don't Wake
the Dead, Sweatshot and The Disco Exorcist) you insensitive
wanker. Moving on, this drags a bit until a botched attempt to
steal some of the antiquities results in a fellow getting his carotid artery opened up and dribbling all over the mask of the
late Nikos and viola! Instant resurrection in full armor. He then
proceeds to waste the museum patrons and stays in the damn place for
more than an hour!!!
He finally journeys out into the
streets of New York and yeah that could draw attention one would
think. Smashing up a cab with his...really painful CGI effects and
then bringing characters from other Schnaas films to life he conjures
up a succubus, Hitler, ninjas and Eva Braun?? Nikos trashes a
lesbian bar, a movie theater and a video store. Hmm, art mimicking
life?? A metaphor? NAH!!!
Will Nikos be stopped!?! Can Frank and
Sandra bring Nikos down?? Is this Bat Gag ever get tiresome??
Felissa delivers the epic line after
seeing the impossible made possible "Ninjas, sure. Why the f*ck
not."
This film is intended to be gore gags
and a somewhat developed story. It brings a bit of T&A courtesy
of soft core erotica horror and sci-fi actress Darian Caine
(Mistress Frankenstein, Gladiator Eroticvs: The Lesbian
Warriors and Lust for Dracula) decapitations, gutting and
mutilations that well...kinda lack believably but so did a similar lumbering undead guy in the form of Jason Vorhees via Friday
the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. The
difference there is they didn't take their flick so damn seriously,
they had better lighting and probably didn't shoot on 16 mm and
expect digital to clean that all up. The film looks grainy and like
a daily print. Thank God the boom mic, shotgun mic on the camera and
the personal mics were functioning or I wouldn't have heard the lines
dubbed or otherwise.
Maybe it was my copy but I think they
may all look this way. I did laugh seeing cameos of Troma's own
Debbie Rochon and Lloyd
Kaufman. Interesting how our
Romanian barbarian is followed around the streets in his bloody
warpath by death metal music as a personal soundtrack. This is a
goofy gorefest and if that is up your alley then have at it. It is
certainly not the worse movie I have sat through so...there's that.
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| Are we gonna get graded on this? |
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