- Actors: Alastair Gamble, Nathan Witte, Wade Gibb
- Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Tla
- DVD Release Date: 27 Jan 2009
- Run Time: 96 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B001M4YZ86
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 48,229 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Exploitation and extreme horror fans should like this. Gutterballs is a fine piece of nasty entertainment and is a good deal nastier and better than the director's previous film Live Feed and more accomplished though not without the odd little flaw. Its a rape revenge bowling slasher, where an incredibly heinous act early on leads to death and mayhem at a night time bowling competition. The characters are pretty obnoxious, though perhaps not quite as toxic as the characters in Live Feed. The villain of the piece, Steve is an unbelievably over-the-top scumbag, played with verve by Alastair Gamble who should get some credit for playing surely one of the most noxious people ever to feature in a horror film. The film's greatness however is the gore and violent death scenes, you get a shocking death scene that I like to call the "69 suffocation" to the "split penis slice" death scene, someones head gets bashed in with a bowling pin, and another person gets his head completely blown off by a shotgun (my favorite scene) the censors probably had a field day with this film. Also, all of the bouncing breasts, outrageous, lingering gore and the insane amount of profanity will probably offend a few people out there especially with that lengthy and disturbing gang rape scene. There's not a lot of plot to Gutterballs, but rather it serves as a homage to 80's slashers and Italian giallo films whose killer wears black gloves, and extreme, over-the-top kill scenes of gore and sex. The 80's soundtrack that Ryan Nicholson was able to get for the film really helps drive home the early 80's vibe that the movie has, not to mention the great atmosphere of the bowling alley. The film also genuinely looks and feels like a grainy, gritty, Grindhouse era movie and it had some great humour that was quite funny "the talking ball waxing machine with a bad temper". I found Gutterballs to be a fun, sick as hell joy ride. Not everyone is going to enjoy this movie, but if you've got a sick sense of humor, like your films to push the envelope of good taste and/or enjoy 80's style exploitation films like I Spit on Your Grave, Maniac, Street Trash etc. then you've got to check this out.
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This is one of the most awesome modern 80's style grindhouse movies ever made, this film has got everything!!! A cool story set after hours at a bowling alley, a really mixed insane cast of characters, there is buckets of blood and explicit gore scenes that are totally uncut and in your face, the practical effects are top notch for a low budget film, theres plenty of sex and nudity too, the acting is cheesy and over the top but it all adds to the charm, these filmmakers have really set out to make something special and indeed they did, a must, must see for any fan of the genre.
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This is a great hyper gory slasher film that with satisfy the most hardened of gore hounds, extremely creative death scenes including the infamous 69 kill, I had to cringe at the penis slice scene but hey that's what good horror films are meant to make us do ! The whole film is completely over the top with the characters made to be utterly despicable so when they get their comeuppance the viewer feels a sense of delight. The director says on his interview that he wanted to make people disgusted and mortified by what they see without any 'clever camera angles' or 'off-screen deaths' - the way a true slasher film should be if it is to scare and disgust it's audience. Whole heartedly recommend this to any slasher fan who can stomach some pretty extreme gore and blood spilling, 16 years + would be the right age to put on this. Grab the region 1 while you can as there is no hope in hell of this getting past the dimwit 'jobs for the boys' at the bbfc.
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Awesome!!!!!!!
Its Friday the 13th Meets Porky's ---- wow where do I start, this movie is like non other, it should have gotten a X rating. Read more
Published 4 months ago by balance
Hilarious yet brutal bowling gorefest
The plot. Two rival groups go bowling, when leaving the hot girl in one of the groups forgets her wallet and goes back in only to be brutally gang raped, by the 4 guys of the other... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Will
Essential purchase
"Gutterballs" is a massive improvement on Ryan Nicholson's weak, "Hostel" wannabe, "Live Feed" and completely delivered. Read more
Published on 6 Aug 2009 by Dave
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