Holy Shit!

No pun intended - I am actually not sure, if I can or rather am allowed to write the international title of the movie, without the review being dismissed in and of itself. Hopefully curse words are not an issue with you - or the literal meaning behind them. Because this really goes places (actually one in specific), that is surely not for the sensitive ones amongst us.

All that being said, this is a genre movie from Germany. Very low budget but also very inventive and very well done. And such a joy to watch - although some may disagree with my use of the word joy here ... especially the main character. But first things first.

This is a one location kind of movie. And while many may think that it is easy to shoot a movie like that - in reality it is as difficult, if not more difficult to realize and make it interesting for audiences. Watching this movie though, it makes it feel so easy ... to say the least.

We start with a sequence that is ... well let's just say dreams can turn into nightmares. One thing you have to be aware of: this is not medically "cleared". Obviously you shouldn't try anything the movie depicts (at home or in one of those toilet boxes), but it's also evident right from the start that the movie will be quite heightened.

The lead actor who is an unknown to me, was very well chosen. And while we always talk about Scream Queens, he could at least be a Scream Prince! All kidding aside, he has to go through quite a lot and Kudos to him - because he remains likeable throughout. There are some moments where you might question his (people) judgement, but never his decision making. I would even go as far as to say, he thinks of things, I am not sure I would have thought of.

Convenient placing of things aside (although not too convenient or comfortable), there are many good ideas in this - and according to the director everything they thought of made it into the movie. Tight scheduling, amazing lighting, a song that you may love to hate (classic in Germany by Münchner Freiheit) and lots of fluids and ... "stuff" thrown at you/the main character.

So if you love low budget movies and are not easily offended, go out and watch it (playing in Germany in cinemas right now for a week!) - it is worth it! It is a win/win for everyone.

None of the happenings seemed like actually really happenings to me, at least from my personal point of view.

Especially the bavarian spoken moments really added it up for me to believe this is not a real world the main character more or less lives in. Despite of the beginning where you have to endure lots of waking up, realizing what is going on and trying to get out of a single metal rod - all of it in this movie seemed lovecraftian to me... Did anything that ever took place in this movie really happen?

And while this movie takes place in actually one single place only, it does a good job at doing that. I expected a bit more, to be honest. But none the less, in any way it's worth being given a shot but don't make it your saturday evening with all your friends on the couch movie, unless you want to discuss it after all.

Incoherent, very bad acting, borderline ridiculous, don't waste your time !!

Nothing work, everything this person does is stupid, the situation is stupid, the acting is beyon bad. The story, oh my god the story !

A lot of time some very short moments are not so bad, very reminiscent of "Evil dead" and the Sam Raimi's style, but so briefly that it really doesn't make this movie better. The gore is maybe the best part of this movie.

They could have gone full "Evil dead", with slapstick dark humor and over the top situations but no, instead they stupidly tried to make it realistic and that's where everything fall apart.

Everything is boring nothing make sense, even in the stupid universe the story take place.

Don't waste your time and watch "Glorious" instead.

That's a way better movie with a guy locked in a toilet...

I didn't know what to expect from this movie, based on it's title.

They say, never judge a book by it's cover though and i m happy, that an odd title, didn't stop me from watching this little ditto.

It has some superb cinematography and direction. Excellent makeup job as well. Cool 80s music.

"Holy S..t" has a quirky, dark and rather funny story (in it's own twisted way), that is both played for laughs as well as making some loose social commentary (with no preaching) While you need to have a tolerance for splatter and kind of gross situations, to enjoy it, those aspects don work as the main premise of the movie, but are just a consequence of it's location. Ie, this is not a mindless, gross, gory movie, for the sake of being that.

It's totally worth watching and I 'd keep my eye out on both the director as well as the lead actor.