Binge & Purge

This is what all micro-budget cinema should be like! Everything about this movie is really good. It does have loads of great gore, but the story and direction really carry it. Everything is so tight and professional looking. Buy the DVD from Sub Rosa because you won't regret it. Clement is a real talent and given a bigger budget, he could go places!

Large swaths of this film are unwatchable. When I say that, I don't mean it's really bad and tough to sit through, I mean literally unwatchable. The lighting is non-existent so probably a quarter of this film is so dark that I have no idea who was talking and where they were. Add to that audio problems and hollow dialogue, and it was extremely difficult to have any idea what was going on at any point in the film as such little information was successfully conveyed. It was really a team effort to even figure out what was going on in it.

The acting was also, largely, very underwhelming and the editing was extremely poor, showing both strange delays in people talking (edits that had too much waiting between lines and was very unnatural) and that conversations appear to be going on with people in different places. There's a lot of quick flashes of shots that don't seem to make much sense, and the film jumps between things so much it's hard to track any continuity or arc. Finally, the kill shots are more like shooting mug shots with a white wall behind people such that it just feels ridiculous to keep seeing the exact same angle and effects for various deaths.

I will grant that the first 5 to 10 minutes of this film were fairly impressive, mostly as the film started off set in the Spanish Civil War, and it was a few minutes before we were even sure it was the right film, starting not in English and in black and white. It was a very good start to the film, and it went downhill from there. Characters come and go without much clarity, and the film never decides if this is a film about zombies or cannibals, or some weird spot in between, and so it also means that the feeling of continuity between what the status of characters are is totally non-existent.

The film has a surprisingly interesting start, and what could be an interesting premise, but then the film very quickly starts to fall apart into some sort of train wreck for most of the film, to then have a couple interesting scenes to end it on, beginning and ending on notes that suggest this film stood a chance of being decent at one point in the planning stages.

I came across this one for a stupid price. The sleeve is laughable but the label it was on gave me a warning, go buy it. Emporium, the label, doesn't exist anymore but horror buffs do search for that label on flea markets and second hand shops. Was I happy that I found it.

You just don't watch it for the acting which looked awful and so did the sound. But I watched it for the horror and it did deliver. Not on the scary part but on the gore.

The gore is in your face for such a low or let's even say no-budget. intestines are being eaten in front of the camera. Sometimes it do becomes cheesy like the bath scene were they cut of a penis. And there are other scene's that are cheesy. Thered stuff do flows and there's even some kind of puke scene on a face but it isn't puke, it's a kind of acid that melts flesh. Gore for everyone.

Surprisingly good for such kind of flicks. Watch it only for the gore, there's enough of it.

Gore 3,5/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 3/5 Story 2/5 comedy 0/5

It's a fun and over the top gory trash flick with a lot of cannibalistic murders and shoot outs, yes the acting is atrocious but would you watch a movie like this for the acting. Nope you watch it for the GORE, the delicious gut munching vomiting gore. I did enjoy Brian Clement's Meat Market which was a fun tribute to the works of Romero, i hope this man will get a bigger budget to realize an even bigger gorefest hihi. Just enjoy Brians work for what it is, gory trash. And i meant that as a compliment.

Christmas, the near future: terrorist attacks have turned North America into a police state. Strange murders have begun to plague the capital city. The police chief assigns two officers to look into the disappearance of a young fashion model and the officers themselves promptly disappear. Fearing for the reputation of his department, and hoping that two of his problems take care of each other, the chief enlists the aid of a trio of private detectives he deems expendable. The group's investigation leads them to an evasive fashion designer and his circle of enigmatic models. What they uncover is not just a simple murder, but a complex web of corruption, mass killing, deceit...and cannibalism. But this threat does not come from without, it comes from within...

Like the Meat Market films, Binge & Purge delivers with similar, if not identical gore effects. There's loads of entrails, gunshots, gutting, acid vomit, biting, strangling, eye gouging, and a nice punch through a zombies head. They almost went overboard with it, but it was the main attraction....so there could never be too much.

Again, like Meat Market it has its ups and downs in the technical department. I'm not sure if they used any lighting sources at all, so some scenes were extremely dark. The audio equipment was also pretty crappy at times, but her...it's a low budget horror movie...it was expected. On the positive side the sound fx were disgusting and used appropriately (just like in Meat Market as well.) There were some really cool and creative camera and editing effects here and there, but a few simple dialogue edits were off. Clement should just go all out with the the artsy shots and editing the majority of the time.

However, every actor in the movie was about on the same skill level. Some lines were just awful, and some were just typical decently stated.

Final Thoughts: If you like your films low budget and extremely gory, this is for you. If you're in it for psychological aspects and acting...stay away. The concept was interesting, but for it to be fully effective Clement needed more money. This is Clement's third film, and it's on the same line as the other two. It was exactly like Meat Market with a more interesting plot. I loved the fact that it constantly made fun of eating disorders and how superficial our society is becoming.

There is one more Clement film I need to see that sounds amazing (Exhumed.) I'm still waiting for him to bust out and be the next Romero.

Final Score: 4.5/10