Abnormis (2010) – Maik Ude.

This wickedly gruesome German backwoods S.O.V slasher finds young couple Chris (Darkun) & Eva (Andrea Mohr) captured, cannibalised, and brutally Tortured by a monumentally gross, metal-mouthed maniac (Sven Spennagel). While the couple's fractious relationship was tempestuous, NOTHING could prepare them for the savage abuses at the graceless hands of their sadistic, psychopathically bloodthirsty captor! While slightly plotted, Ude's audaciously gore-loaded splatter-fest is more than generous with its heroic dosing of sinew stripping S.O.V butchery! The cellar carnage is intercut with Chris's blonde mistress Kristina's (Divina Buran) stoic investigations, her boozy private eye (Marco Kruse) proving inept, and the ill-tempered gun-thugs tasked to retrieve the dipso detective's gambling debt.

Abnormis provides much visceral pleasures to aficionados of extremely grisly, stridently splattery slashers, and any who especially savour the more demented examples of S.O.V mayhem should be all over this like hot funk on a rutting baboon's fire-red ball-sack! The cast's performances are above average for S.O.V fare, the plentiful practical FX might have been better served without digital manipulation, but the gorily untreated make-up is spectacularly bloody, and the vengeful, J-Horror'd, black-metal-looking banshee rocks no less righteously than the extreme metal title track! Should explicit depictions of a boot-administered abortion, bloody scalping, brutalising torture, monstrous skull-crushing, gratuitous gut-munching, raging kneecap destruction, non-surgical eyeball extraction, and absolutely insane bludgeoning be anathema to your viewing pleasure, Abnormis is manifestly not for you, dude!