Two friends (Jim Aal, Master W) decide to do 'shrooms one afternoon, and not just any 'shrooms but particularly powerful ones, those you can only take a particular (small) amount of to not completely blow your top. And it's not that our heroes don't know the risk, they simply lack the scales to get the amount right ... and the interest to actually follow instructions. So after partaking, they awake the next day, covered in blood, with no memory but a camera full of footage - footage of them torturing, murdering and dismembering a woman (Ska) ...

Now there's no two ways about it, Das Geheimnis der Teufelspilze is a pretty sick movie (and intentionally so), especially since it's very explicit in its violence and overdoes it in terms of blood - but what makes it something different from your usual blood-and-guts flick is its very light-hearted approach that despite all the torture and dismemberment gives it a purely comedic edge, which is also reflected in the almost moronic yet relatable lead characters who pretty much invite the audience to not take any of the goings-on at all seriously. Now that said, if splatter movies are not at all your thing there's little chance you'll enjoy this one, but if you have a dark and maybe slightly sick sense of humour, this one is sure worth a chuckle or three.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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