Michael_Elliott Violent $hit (1989) * (out of 4) Insane, low-budget horror film from Germany has a young boy murdering his mother. Twenty years later Karl (Andreas Schnaas) escapes from a mental hospital and goes on another bloody murder spree.VIOLENT $HIT comes from director Schnaas who has made a career out of these low-budget horror movies that's main purpose is to make the viewer sick. You can read more about Germany's stance on horror movies from this era but what basically happened is several filmmakers started making this ultra gory movies. The end result is pretty much what you'd expect and your level of entertainment will certainly depend on what you want from your horror movies.Personally speaking, I can respect the filmmakers of films like this a lot more than I actually enjoy the films. I say that because I can respect people going out with very little money and doing something they love. I admit that the insane special effects aren't anything ground-breaking but at the same time you have to give them credit for going over-the-top and just delivering a non-stop amount of gore.The problem with VIOLENT $HIT and others like it is the fact that there's just not much here to hold your interest. There's really nothing "good" here in regards to technical terms and I'd argue that none of the characters are all that interesting. There's the gore, yes, but to me that's just not enough to keep this entertaining even through the short running time.

Horst in Translation ([email protected]) This is a 72-minute video by Andreas Schnaas from 27 years ago, maybe more when you read this review. The only thing one can say to somehow justify the bad quality of h'this film here is that he was only 20 years old when he made this. And at 20, being a writer, director and lead actor is something you can, but you also need to have a bit of talent. I see no talent here from Schnaas. It is bloody, has lots of gore and murder sequences, self-mutilation, the full program. Now this is perfectly fine, if you manage to build a story around all this, which somehow justifies it. This is not the case here. It is all just violence for the sake of it and as such it is really repetitive, uncreative and boring. Painful to watch there are many sequels and a very recent remake. Sometimes great films do not get the accolades they deserve or the sequels they deserve, but this piece of garbage here does. Several even. Do not mistake my disliked of this film for being offended. I was not. I was just very much underwhelmed although I probably should not have been looking at the accurate rating it has here on IMDb. It would be an understatement to recommend you not to watch it. I say: Stay far far away.

CMRKeyboadist Wow... that's all that came out of my mouth after I watched the first of the series. This film is single handedly the most disgusting movie ever made, and I loved it. There is virtually no storyline at all, just Karl the Butcher running around in the countryside brutally slaughtering unsuspecting victims. Now, as this movie has no storyline it does pull off certain feelings when you are viewing it that make you feel rather uncomfortable. The music is very appropriate and very creepy and the camera work is actually kind of cool in a very low budget type of way. There are 2 sequels to this movie and it seems that most people like the sequels more but I enjoyed the first one much more than the others. Probably because of the brutality of the murders in the first one were so harsh in comparison and also because there wasn't any real storyline. This movie gets a 9/10 from me.

bert_i_gordon Violent Sh*t was the first "film" (video) by Andreas Schnass. While it's a terrible movie, it does have some merit, and arguably, some scenes that are almost artistic ( the Jesus scene, which shows Karls inability to become one with Christ, or become good, because all he knows is violence). Or something like that. Or just no......Whatever it is, it's not "anti- religious" like some people have stated. Although, I can see how it could be offensive, but then again, if you are easily offended, what are you doing watching "Violent Sh*t"?It starts out with Karl as a boy killing his abusive mother, but not until after smiling directly into the camera and laughing. We then cut to 20 years later, with Karl escaping from the police and killing various people for the next 57 minutes with a gigantic cleaver he just happens to have had all this time. He mutates with every murder and passes out, having visions and nightmares of his past were he saw the devil as a child. Finally he melts into a pile of goo, and a baby pops out. Right.For a movie with that title, and it being all about the gory effects, one shouldn't really complain. Anyone who picked up a movie called "Violent Sh*t" and was expecting "Casablanca" is at fault. But don't get me wrong, it is a bad movie. There's just nothing holding it together, except for the gore, and nothing is ever explained.As for direction, I guess it's fine. I know that sounds insane, but in a movie that's all about gore, it's perfectly fine. Schnaas is sure to show all the gore in lingering closeups. Because that's what it's all about, the gore. It's not about Karl's emotional states, or any sort of character development. "There's somebody. Now go kill him". That's it. The same goes for acting, the victims scream fine. And Karl is a mongoloid, or something.Now to clear up some myths and misconceptions surrounding the movie. First off, Andreas Schnaas is not Karl the Butcher. Karl was played by an "actor" named Karl Inger, Schnaas played the loudmouth tree cutter who gets cut in half with a tree trimmer.Another is that all "real gore" was used. Real animal blood and organs. This is obviously fake, because animal blood is not Pepto-Bismal, nor is an animals intestines sausage links, which were obviously used during the gutting scene.Violent Sh*t was the first German direct-to-video horror film.Some people state Violent Sh*t was a successful midnight movie and was pulled by the censors. This cant be true, because I doubt a film print of Violent Sh*t was ever made, and video projectors did not exist in 1987. But on this I could be wrong.In the end Violent Sh*t is a bad movie. No doubt about that. However, there is something interesting about it. Perhaps it's the fact that despite being made tongue in cheek, it's still played brutally straight. And that makes it interesting for a few reasons. What were they thinking? Why was this made? Who was this made for? There some of the same questions that surround a movie like "Blood Freak", or "Legend of Blood Mountain" (both wonderfully bad movies). And at least Schnaas wasn't insulting our intelligence, just his.