Movie Review: Animal Soup

I was given a copy of this movie from the director and creator, who attended a local horror movie festival. He and the female lead came over from London for the Dark Carnival Film Festival, and they were very nice folks. Animal Soup was not selected for the festival, probably because the town would have rioted if it were shown in public.

This movie was quite fucked up, as its reputation would suggest. It's kind of a combination of the Blair Witch Project and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. As far as I can gather, the plot is as follows: some folks decide to go hiking. Also, some folks who live out in the country get mad cow from eating from a cesspool of rotting cow flesh. These two forces (the hikers and the crazies) collide. Torture ensues.

The first 3/4 of the movie have some graphic parts, but it's nothing any B movie fan hasn't seen before. The last quarter of the movie is a barrage of unmitigated torture and humiliation. There's a lot of bodily functions and fluids being directed at others. This is accompanied by a lot of undifferentiated yelling from the torturers. Anyway...it doesn't end well. Oh, there's some full-frontal male masturbation, in a totally non-erotic way. Oh, and one woman gets a pointy log sledge-hammered through there butt and out her mouth, where it penetrates the apple that had been tied there as a gag.

I really don't know how to rate the film. It certainly accomplished its putative goal of grossing us all out (though we were laughing our asses off at the same time). It also definitely conveyed a deep sense of insanity from the two crazy guys, who brought quite strong performances. All in all, if you like horror movies, and you can handle very graphic torture, shitting, masturbating, vomiting, and the consumption of those products, you might enjoy this fun little romp.