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Nice effects (for a home video!) and creative killing are the keywords for this no-budget-what-so-ever-movie. But I imagine they had a good time making this. Another positive thing about this movie is that it spawned two brilliant sequels. Watch them instead. They are available in a German Special Edition, which include all three flicks+ tons of extra material! A must buy for all gore-hounds!

After seeing the title of this movie a man can't help but be a little intrigued, so I picked it up. Wow, and is that saying right..."curiosity kills the cat" and it nearly killed me. This is by far one of the most sick and twisted movies I've ever laid eyes on. The movie is about the Karl "The Butcher," an unrelenting mass murderer who shows no mercy to his victims. Judging by the title, you can imagine some of the things he does to his victims...no nevermind, you can't because a sane person in their right mind wouldn't think of the sick ways to kill a person. 'Violent Shit' is filled with dismemberments, disembowelings, castrations, and even feces eating and it's some of the most sickening stuff I've ever seen. If you're into extremely low-budget (this movie is shot with a camcorder) and torture films, this pointless gorefest is the movie for you! Otherwise, if you're easily offended, avoid at all costs or else you will die of a heart attack after the first 10 seconds of the film.

Now, this is an amateur home-video!! Its an ultra "Z" film only for one propose, too shock, with ultra violent and grotesque scenes, with a non linear\sense story.The film focus the character Karl the Buchter (Andreas Schnaas, also the director) in a killing spree, walking around the woods killing people without a propose, every signle death is sadistic and brutal..(what they are thinking?)!

Its not a film of all gore fans, its beyond that,its a film for real ultra-violent cinema fans, in my opinion the film is a little bit sick,nasty and unnecessary..If you like this one, i recommend: "Antro da Necrofilia" and "Eu Zombie!!! 2- A carnificina total"

What should I have expected from a movie that says, 'Experience a lesson in real BAD taste' and 'Expect the worst' on the front cover? Starring an actor called K. the butcher shitter and produced by the violent shitters? This was the debut of loud-mouthed German gore fiend Andreas Schnaaaaas. (!) A director that's renowned for releasing 'films' that would get banned in most countries for their titles alone. Shot on a camcorder, Violent Shit makes Nail Gun Massacre look like Spielberg helmed it in his spare time under a pseudonym. Seriously, this isn't a movie at all; it's more like an exercise in restraint. Sitting through the whole eighty minutes is like being locked in a room with Peewee Herman and not killing him. A task that, if completed, will prove a man's machismo so decidedly, that he will be able to walk proud for the rest of his life. If you've checked my review list, you'll see that I'm a forgiving fellow. I'd have to be, because I've seen some utter schlock in my life, but this wipes the existence of the worst of them from my memory. Quite how it went on to spawn three sequels is amazing, and how the crew behind the production was not imprisoned for some kind of breach of human rights was a further miracle. Still, I've started my review so I may as well tell you what left me so bemused.

The credits roll over a child playing in some woodland with a ball. He goes home and his mother threatens him, saying `You wait.Get in here' The door closes and we hear a somewhat leisurely scream. It looks as if the youngster killed his mum with a meat cleaver, because he comes outside splashed in blood with the weapon in his hand. Two decades later, the Police (or Polizei) are transferring the demented looking bogeyman to, erm. well, we don't ever learn; but thankfully an officer sums it up neatly for us. `Now we have to work overtime to bring these retards back to their holes!' I couldn't have put it better myself. I must comment on the security, which was questionable to say the least. I mean, is that how they transfer homicidal maniacs in Germany? In an Herby-esque camper van without any bars on the windows or dead locks on the door? Hmmm. Anyway, one of the coppers makes the fatal mistake of giving in to the call of nature and returns to find his buddies bloodily despatched surprisingly off screen. I thought the killer (we don't find out his name) was giving one of them a love bite, but I guess he was eating his neck! After shouting, `Stop you pig, or I'll shoot' (!) the final lawman meets his bloody end by a patently cardboard machete to the shoulder. His demise was undoubtedly his own fault for leaving such a deadly blade inside the van with a nut-job in the first place, but hey, I guess his rampage had to be kicked off somehow. Without going into the fact that this constabulary's methods for transferring psychopaths certainly needed a complete overhaul, let's just say that the butcher ends up roaming the countryside and killing everyone that he bumps into on his journey.

The plot's is as non-existent as anyone could expect it to be, he legs it around some Greenland, with a blade in his hand and a scar on his cheek(s) offing anyone that bumps into him. The first, a woman driving along listening to UB40's 'Red Red Wine' (has Schnaas been sued or did he buy the rites? - I very much doubt it!) breaks down, then gets thrown on the floor and her breast cut off. After some bizarre camera work involving the photographer spinning the camcorder in circles (yes, you'll get a headache!) a guy gets his penis chopped in half! All these are shot in unflinching close-up with paint-red blood spraying unconvincingly over the surroundings. Then an unfortunate vulgar speeched gardener gets cut in half with a hedge trimmer then his head is chopped in two! The final excuse for gratuitous gore that I'll tell you about (although there's plenty more throughout the eighty minute runtime), involves a woman getting split in half from the vagina upward. Then the killer (we still didn't learn his name) disembowels her, chucking her intestines, liver and every other organ that Schnaas could find a close replica for, - on the floor in front of the camera! I'm making this sound a whole lot better than it actually is, but keep in mind that the 'acting' is no less than ridiculous, the music is played separately from the (German - subtitled in English) dialogue (what do you expect from a camcorder) and the lighting stinks. At one-point things got all anti-religious when the nut-job sticks his head in, I guess what's supposed to be Jesus' stomach! We don't get an explanation on why there he is - the Son of God - stuck on a crucifix out in the middle of the woods! And the ending, oh yes the ending. What the hell?

There's loads of pointless padding, like endless driving sequences showing cars heading down long, boring roads that never amount to anything and there's some X-rated dialogue that brings about a giggle. I guess we can forgive some of the inconsistencies, seeing how this was made tongue in cheek to be consumed in the same manor, but to be honest, a lot of the pointless exploitation was a little too sickening and not in a good way. Schnaas really should have started himself a career in special effects, putting his clearly visible talents to use with more experienced filmmakers. But instead he goes on to make movies like this that will only appeal to gore hounds that are truly forgiving. What's left to say about Violent Shit? Is it Violent? Yes, very. But don't forget, it's also a steaming pile of. You get the picture.

I made the music to this film, already nearly 17 years ago. There is an error the film is from 1988 not from 1987 (because i bought my Korg M1 Music Workstation back in 88). Since 1985 I was a big fan from electronic film scores so i tried to do my best. When I first saw the movie i thought "this film is sick" and i thought how could i give it a more pro look, so i made the music "eerie, mysterious", what i didn't knew that they had no equipment to mix it ..... Anyway it was fun, I just had like 4 days to do the music, because they wanted to show the film at an festival. Like I said sick film - but they had a lot of fun :) Micky

An escaped psycho with a massive meat-cleaver hacks his way through lots of people, meets Jesus, and 'gives birth' to a baby.

German underground horror director Andreas Schnaas' definitely can't be accused of giving his debut splatter-fest a misleading title: Violent Sh*t is both violent and sh*t! Without even the slightest hint of an intelligible plot to get in the way of the endless barrage of offensive visuals, the film acts primarily as a showcase for Schnaas' cheap-jack gore effects, which range from the fairly routine (severed heads, hands and assorted meat-cleaver murders) to the downright revolting (a woman is cut open from her snatch upwards and disembowelled).

The blood gushes in impossibly bright red, the various prosthetic body-parts look thoroughly unconvincing, the dialogue is dreadful (best/worst line: 'this bullsh*tting job is f*ucking me to sh*ts'), there is an overuse of horrible video effects (solarisation and shuddery imagery), all the actors are unattractive with the majority sporting nasty mullets or perms, and no-one even thinks to fight back against the killer.

However, despite being one of the most inane, poorly constructed, and downright shoddy pieces of film-making I'll probably ever see, I've got to admit that, as a card carrying gore-hound, I enjoyed Violent Sh*t just a little for its sheer audacity, and occasionally, its plain weirdness.

4.5 out of 10, rounded up to 5 for IMDb.

Worthless boring, disgusting garbage. The title says it all, the operative word being "Shit." It's amazing that any video store would pick up a steaming pile like this, when so many other worthwhile films never get picked up. Of course, I live in smalltown Indiana, so that's most of the problem right there. This is offensive trash...

Ok so i make no excuses about it but i really dig these German gorefest movies,and this is one of the first.Basically Karl the Butcher(Director Schnaas)escapes,kills people and so on.Not original.But this movies sheer lack of taste,disregard for whats acceptable(though i think it was made with Tongue in cheek)and exuberance makes it cool especially if youre drunk.Recommended!

Seriously. I've seen a lot of low budget, no budget films. I've seen a lot of horror, gore, slashers, and generally nasty films. This is pretty close to bottom of the list. Yeah its violent, but you cant see any actual gore due to poor camera work and disastrous editing (mostly that pixelated effect that the filmmakers must've thought was SO cool). The film is an immature compilation of bad special effects, annoying and generally pointless characters, and buckets of thick pink foamy blood.

The storyline (ok so not technically a STORYline) follows a German man in a plaid shirt shambling aimlessly around the countryside murdering people with a large cleaver. Unfortunately the same effect is re-cycled many times as he overpowers his victims, slam them repeatedly on the ground, cuts off one of their arms at the shoulder, and then beheads them. There are some great concepts for a gore scene, but they're ruined by dark/pixelated shots, and stop-frame slow motion.

If you want to see a gore-fest, this isn't the film you're looking for. After all the hassle it'll take you to track this film down, i ASSURE YOU that you will be disappointed. If you want something German and disturbing, go get yourself a copy of Nekromantik.

I have seen three Schnaas movies, and I all hate them... though I like Splatter movies. The "Violent shit" series is the most gory of them, and I also think they are the most gory Schnaas movies. The plot, the actors, the effects are incredibly bad. I have seen one of the three "violent shit" movies, I dont know which one - does not matter anyway. The whole point of it is to kill a lot of people in very brutal ways - like slaughtering and castrating them. While other genre movies, especially the on a negative way very impressive "Cannibal Holocaust", try to put a sense in it or explain something, this is just GORE. They are disgusting because they are so boring. I dont know why Schnaas still even tries to put one of his nutty plots in it and does not just randomly mix butcher scenes.

Up until now, I have never seen a horror movie that I didn't like. This movie was just awful, awful, awful! The filming is so blurry that you can hardly see what's going on! The sound is fuzzy. The gore is cheap and you can't feel any sympathy for the victims because how stupid they were scripted. I'm sure the director has potential! He must show it. This film does not capture the genius of Mr. Schnaas. This film is also extremely low budget. Although the actors were particularly talented especially the very handsome Mr. Schnaas as the killer Karl, They could not save this movie. Even the castration scene was boring. Mr. Schnaas, Make us a better film!

One of the worst movies ever made. The writing,directing,acting are atrocious. Don't waste your time.

I guess there's exactly one thing this shot-on-video cheapie has gotten right: it does seem to be a genuine attempt at giving the audience what it wants. Writer/Director (granted, both terms are used sorta loosely) Andreas Schnaas clearly seems to know lots of horror fans are in it just to see irritating people die gory deaths, but using this knowledge to make something remotely entertaining seemed like a bridge too far. So you've opened your movie with a mental patient (Karl The Butcher, an overly threatening name for a teenage guy with an oatmeal scrotum on his face) escaping from custody and wandering off into the woods, what to do now? Have some cops or local vigilantes look for him and possibly get killed in the process? Have Oatmeal Dude reach a camp/school/farm/slumber party house/hotel/convent to cause some gory mayhem? Of course not, those would be story lines (close enough at least). Instead, "Violent Sh#t" just consists of Karl walking around aimlessly and killing nameless characters 15 seconds after they've been introduced. That's literally what the whole movie is, and keep in mind it goes on for 75 mind-numbingly repetitive minutes. I never could have imagined a movie with so much splatter in it could be so ridiculously boring, but Schnaas truly has a gift. I hear this thing has two sequels, I also hear it's somewhat of a cult hit in Germany: both facts freighten me intensely.

In the 1980s, horror genre-loving Germans had to deal with the fact that their home video releases of classic horror films would often be severely edited. So, a bunch of them scraped together the funds to make their own over the top little gorefests.

The "Violent Sh**" series is one of the best known; this initial entry was written, produced, and directed by a young man named Andreas Schnaas, who also plays the leading role. As a child, "K. The Butcher Shi**er" was gifted with a cleaver by his mother, and 20 years later he's a criminal being transported somewhere by inept police. He escapes, and proceeds to SLAUGHTER anybody stupid enough or unfortunate enough to end up in the German wilderness.

Shot using a standard-definition video camera, this movie is shameless, ridiculous, and pretty much artless fare, albeit with some unusual touches. It would be hard to recommend to most people, unless they are REALLY in the mood for a "good" sickie that revels in its nastiness. The ultra low budget, plentiful gore is definitely this movies' reason for being, and it CAN be a hoot at times. However, for a movie running only 73 minutes, there is a LOT of padding on this thing, making it seem longer than it is, and essentially indicating that the movie has no real story. It's just one gruesome set piece after another, complete with tacky dialogue and tacky acting.

That said, it is KIND of amusing on its own gutter-trash level, but it might have been better as a short.

Still, for Schnaas to get this finished (it took him four very long weekends) and distributed is something of an accomplishment, however dubious.

Worth it for a truly priceless ending, and followed by three sequels (!).

Five out of 10.

It's a difficult business making films with explanatory titles. A very few times it happens just right, but far more its little more than a pose, leading to disappointment at best and thorough contempt at worst. For instance there's White Rose Campus: Then Everybody Gets Raped, in which not everybody actually gets raped. Quite a lot do get raped and overall its hugely entertaining stuff so the film gets a pass but its still sad. Then there's Blooduckers from Outer Space which features infuriatingly little in the way of on screen bloodsucking, and at the bottom there are films like Gore from Outer Space, which has exactly zero on screen gore. Violent Sh!t is perfect though, well close too as the only folk who could possibly watch a film with such a name and be disappointed with the content are hardcore monster excrement enthusiasts not satiated by Monsturd, and really who cares about those weirdos? There's no perambulating excreta committing acts of violence here, but it's definitely a violent film. And by the standards of most normal people it's definitely sh!t. So by the connotations of its name its a winner, and if its name appeals to you in a critical manner its definitely a film for you. Essentially its an entry in the relatively less traveled slasher subgenre of woodlands lunatic who kills everyone he encounters for no good reason. Its kinship is with the likes of Don't Go in the Woods Alone and Orgroff, and though it never quite meets the anti art heights of the former or intoxicating ineptitude of the latter its a worthy effort. The fun of it is that a good few people get offed and they get offed real bad. Head hacking, arm chopping, tit slicing, dick lopping, cooch goring and more, all rendered in HG Lewis style but with comically thick and pinkish blood. Also the killer, K. The Butcher Sh!tter is played by Andreas Schnaas himself and wears a nifty check shirt/jeans and suspenders combo. Suffice to say, not very menacing. There's overuse of slow motion, jerky editing and some horrible technique that makes occasional bits look like the film has been turned into some horrid blotchy computer made cartoon. But for all the technical irritation Violent Sh!t is actually a pretty solid piece of imbecile gory junk. It absolutely lacks anything in the way of ambition or pretension, there's nothing there but trash gore cheer and the feel of idiot youngsters playing with and trying to milk the limited time they had with their cheap editing resources. In short its fun, it rings through with nothing but fun. Very little to it, but for a trash gore opus that won't stretch your brain or your time frame (its less than 75 minutes long) its a classic.

This is hardly a movie to be honest. The whole plot is just some guy killing anyone who steps into the forest he's in, some parts are just filler so this movie can be above an hour long. Most of the movie is very bad frame rate and random effect filters added sometimes, who did this? Each of the victims in this movie are only there for five minutes or more before they get killed, and I don't have the ability to care for them since they're not interesting, and they barely talk for most of the movie. There's one point in the movie after one or two victims die, the killer collapses to the ground, and the camera guy decides to spin around the forest, cutting to a shot of some church, what was the point of that? There's one scene in the movie where there's a crucified Jesus Christ in the middle of the forest for unknown reasons, and the killer decides to cut him open and goes inside of him, just why? The ending of this movie is just the killer collapsing to the ground again while giving birth to a baby and the killer dies, WHO WROTE THIS MOVIE!?

The only positives I can give is the gore effects with the kills, and at least some scenes have a backstory of how the killer became the way he was, but they also make no sense. This movie is not watching for me, but if you're a fan of old independent straight to video horror films, don't let me stop you from watching this.