Gutterballs (2008

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Nolan Guyz

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Aug 3, 2024, 3:24:49 PM8/3/24

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Director Ryan Nicholson is a genius for making a horror film that combined a hardcore gore extravaganza with some hardcore nudity and sex in Gutterballs (2008). It may just be that I have not seen any film like this before and they exist, but I have never seen a film quite like this. Nicholson fused two extreme genres of film, horror and porno, into one fantastic movie.

Granted, the film was a low-budget gore-fest and the acting was sub-par at some points and downright annoying at other points in the film, but that certainly was not why I found myself enjoying this film. The film presented itself with no strings attached and at face-value: You are watching a tongue-in-cheek, raunchy, exploitative, gore film that has no limits and knows no boundaries.

I should have known what I was getting into from just viewing the dvd artwork of the movie: a girl with very large breasts in a torn wife-beater tank-top that barely covers them. For the record, I love that cover! So much so, that I want to get the poster for it.

One of the many memorable opening scenes was where Lisa (Candice Lewald) is sporting an extremely short mini skirt and wearing no panties. She goes to roll her bowling ball, bending over and her skirt hikes up and reveals her cleanly shaved nether-regions in all their glory. But it works. Many of the actors and actresses have credits that include only this film, and at times that was apparent. But one does not view films like this for their stellar acting or intricate plot scenarios. One views Gutterballs for sex, nudity, and insane amounts of gore.

This film was a fresh, genre-blending piece of work that had me entertained and titillated at the same time. Some scenes had a tinge of voyeurism as to the angles and shots of the camera, reminding me of the great Tinto Brass and his perverted camera shots, but other scenes were reminiscent of all-out splatter epics such as the Fulci slasher The New York Ripper (1982) or some of the Troma films such as The Toxic Avenger (1984)or the ultra-violent and raunchy Street Trash (1987) featuring gory deaths with gratuitous nudity. If you thought that the teenagers in any of the Friday the 13th films were horny, then you have seen nothing yet! These teens are the horniest bastards ever to grace the movie screen. Gutterballs takes everything I enjoy in a film, normally only getting does of it here and there, and throws it at the viewer en mass!

The special effects were created by Jon Funk and the prosthetics done by Michelle Grady. There were some extremely gross scenes in Gutterballs and I believe we have these individuals to thank for that.