The Mutilation Man

I have been watching indie films for some time now and none of them has ever impacted my life as much as Andy Copp's The Mutilation Man. It is one film that, as of this moment, I could only sit through once. Mind you, I thought it was a brilliant flick, but none the less a very disturbing one.

I have to say that this is one flick that shouldn't be missed. I highly recommend it.

Apparently, The Mutilation Man is about a guy who wanders the land performing shows of self-mutilation as a way of coping with his abusive childhood. I use the word 'apparently' because without listening to a director Andy Copp's commentary (which I didn't have available to me) or reading up on the film prior to watching, viewers won't have a clue what it is about.

Gorehounds and fans of extreme movies may be lured into watching The Mutilation Man with the promise of some harsh scenes of splatter and unsettling real-life footage, but unless they're also fond of pretentious, headache-inducing, experimental art-house cinema, they'll find this one a real chore to sit through.

82 minutes of ugly imagery accompanied by dis-chordant sound, terrible music and incomprehensible dialogue, this mind-numbingly awful drivel is the perfect way to test one's sanity: if you've still got all your marbles, you'll switch this rubbish off and watch something decent instead (I watched the whole thing, but am well aware that I'm completely barking!).

An Avent-garde nightmarish, extremely low-budget "film" that has delusions of grandeur. Hard to sit through. I get the message that child abuse is wrong. Wow big revelation. I had no clue it was wrong before viewing this. Yes that's sarcasm. DON'T watch this "film" if you're offended by nudity of either the male or female gender. DON'T watch it if you're the least bit squeamish. DON'T watch it if you care about acting. On second thought just DON'T watch it period.

My grade: D-

DVD Extras:making the movie , the premiere,interview with Kristie Bowersock, deleted scenes, movie stills, Director's commentary, 2 versions of the teaser trailer, music video by The Azoic, & a classroom video experiment

Andrew Copp, the director isn't unknown to me. This is his first attempt to make a movie. the first which means, no budget. Copp is known for his brutality used in his flicks. Here having almost no money he used stock footage of some nasty scene's to shock people from Vietnam, most I have seen earlier (brutal executions).

Be advised that the quality is very low because it was shot on super 8 and 16mm. There's a lot of gore for the geeks out there but I must warn you due the stock footage that this isn't for the weak of heart or people who are easily offended.

Some might say this is an art flick like Begotten (1990) because what you see is sometimes hard to understand. Yhe mutilation man himself is walking around naked full frontal so some might have trouble with the nudity. And the score doesn't make it easier to watch this sick flick.

Andrew Copp went further into other disturbing flicks. This is the most weird one. It's not for everybody but gorehounds should love this. But it's hard to sit through due the low quality and not actually having a story...child abuse looks the main theme to be.

Gore 3/5 Nudity 1,5/5 Effects 1,5/5 Story 1/5 Comedy 0/5

This piece of filth is virtually impossible to follow. The sound is crap the picture quality goes from bad to worse to good to bad again! Things happen for no apparent reason characters appear and disappear. Was the director suffering from a massive brain injury during its production?

Poor film making aside, the story is vile just sick evil sh*t If you like rape, murder and self harm this is right up your alley. And if simulated scenes of murder are not enough you can enjoy clips of actual people being executed. I watched almost all of it but had to turn off after I seen someones brains blown out. Never before have I seen a film that left me feeling so ashamed and dirty.