Viva_Chiba What the hell are you expecting ? A slasher movie like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" remake ? It's an independent movie, probably waaaaaaaaay better than every "Platinum Dunes" remake. I like the work of Andreas Schnaas, i don't have much to say about him.Plot: While someone was trying to steal the Mask of the barbarian "Nikos", Nikos resurrects and he starts a bloody killing spree..... The idea of a slasher movie taking place in a big city like New York is interesting, in 1989, the movie "Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan" failed in putting this concept to life, but Nikos the Impaler did something better....with a small budget !

Witchfinder General 666 "Nikos" aka. "Nikos The Impaler" aka. "Violent S**t 4" was my first venture into the World of German Gorehound Andreas Schnaas, and yet I think I can say that the name of his "Violent S**t" franchise does it justice. This film is violent, all right, and it is also a steaming pile of fecal matter. Even though "Nikos" must be one of the most (intentionally?) crappiest films I ever laid eyes on, it is undeniable that it is also occasionally vastly entertaining (in a very silly, low-brow manner). The film begins in 1003 a.d., when the terrible Barbarian Nikos (played by director Schnaas himself) is executed in a nauseating manner (an allusion to Joe D'Amato's notorious classic "Antropophagus" 0f 1980). A millennium later, the evil Barbarian is resurrected during an exhibition in New York. A college professor (Joe Zazo), his sexy Latina girlfriend (Felissa Rose), a nerdy female student and two idiot male students, as well as a bunch of other visitors, including an elderly couple from Montana, two gay guys and a fat Italian American who talks like a poor man's Tony Soprano are stuck in the museum and have to escape the blood-lust of the resurrected Barbarian, who then infests the entire city. Inbetween butchering people, Nikos also resurrects Hitler, Ninjas, and a 'Princess Of Darkness'... It is undeniable that the film is occasional hilarious in its (seemingly intentional) awfulness. Yet, it gets very monotonous after a while, as it is basically only Nikos butchering vast amounts of people for an endless 100 minutes. I also hate how many contemporary low-budget Horror/Gore productions have annoying nonstop background music for no reason, and "Nikos" is a perfect example for this unfortunate tendency. The mask that Nikos is wearing was apparently inspired by the mask in Mario Bava's 1960 Gothic masterpiece "La Maschera Del Demonio" (aka. "Black Sunday"), and it kinda hurts to mention Bava's milestone, doubtlessly one of the greatest Horror films ever brought to screen, in the same sentence as this piece of crap. Other than that, Schnaas also pays tribute to some of his own films, which are played in a theater (yeah, right, because his films are screened in New York all the time). After an unendurable beginning, the film gets slightly better towards the end. There is one amusing scene in a video store, in which Troma mastermind Lloyd Kaufman has a talk with prolific Trash actress Debbie Rochon and drummer Bela B. (from the German punk band "Die Ärzte"), just to be interrupted by Nikos. We also see the hot Sex/Horror/Trash actress Darian Caine taking a shower, and some of the gore is also fun to look at (my favorite sequence was one in which a guy gets his face chopped off his head). Even so, "Nikos" is very monotonous and overall boring film that is at least 30 minutes too long. Only recommendable if you are capable of enjoying awfulness, and even then I recommend to fast-forward through the first half. I personally had a good laugh every now and then.

LambertoBava This is along with Demonium Andreas Schnaas biggest Budget movie. It's his newest long-movie, and it's a gory splatter-fest! The actors suck, the filming is mostly good, but sometimes that sucks to. The effects of the movie is very good! And there is a lot of them! There is also nudity, something most men around the world likes. And if they don't like naked womens, they are probably gay. And you will also find a gay couple in this movie. So now you maybe think that this movie has it all? But no, it don't. Actually, it don't have much except good effects and one naked women. And oh, the stupid plot off course. A barbarian from old Romania! And it is now in New York. Killing people! Hehe, I don't think Andreas Schnaas cared so much about the plot and about the actors. I think he though mostly about the gory feeling that you get of this movie. Couse it is a good splatter movie. If you like splatters, this off course is a must.But this isn't the bloodiest, goriest movie on the planet either. If you want a bloody as hell German movie, check out "Das Komabrutale Duell". So to the conclusion; If you like splatter movie, check this out.If you hate movies with bad filming with a DV camera, bad actors, and so on, don't check it out.

NIXFLIX-DOT-COM NIKOS THE IMPALER is not actual moviemaking. It's really nothing more than a group of people wondering how much carnage they can orchestrate with a limited budget. Even for those who enjoys gore, as I do occasionally, NIKOS doesn't offer enough COMPETENT gore and blood and guts to satisfy.Perhaps the real audience of NIKOS is those who doesn't require their gore to be well done. If so, then NIKOS is for them. It's mostly childish gore, and most of the killings come by way of decapitations. Really, once you've seen five characters getting their heads badly chopped off by a big sword, do you really need to see 10 more?4 out of 10(go to www.nixflix.com for a more detail review and reviews of films in this genre)