Ruptured Review: A Fucking Cruel Nightmare

Country of origin- Germany

Year of release- 2010  

Director- Sebastian Zeglarski

Stars- Raul Maximilian, Christian Nowak, Sebastian Zeglarski

The film begins with a warning that says: This film contains loads of cruel, nasty, brutal, sick and violent scenes. Furthermore there are scenes of necrophilia and sick shit that you don’t need to understand at all. Therefore it should not be seen by anyone of you.

With that rather odd but charmingly self-aware piece out of the way the film begins in earnest. The film follows an unnamed man who walks into a large house which has every interior wall covered in plastic sheeting. As the man begins to walk down the houses hallways and corridors he begins to peer into room’s that lead off the main passage way. In every room he looks into he sees a bound and gagged person usually strapped to a chain, along with a masked man in white overalls who is performing one of many horrific acts of torture, mutilation and perverted sadism on the poor unfortunate bastard in the chair. These acts include, being whipped with chains, having nails driven into a woman’s spine and cutting off a man’s penis after repeatedly stabbing his groin. But it seems that no matter how many rooms the man looks into, he doesn’t try to stop the killing, or in fact become phased by anything he sees, instead he just keeps watching the splatter unfold.

This may actually be the first film I have ever seen that has in no way, shape or form, any semblance of a plot. It’s not that this film tried to create a plot and failed, instead it just decided that it didn’t need one because, why not! And because of this blatant and complete rejection for what is a very standard aspect of film structure I have to give it credit, it was a bold move that arguably worked.

What do the film makers replace the plot with you may ask? Well that is very simple, gore, and a lot of it. Gore, more specifically splatter has more screen time in this film than literally anything else. They may not be the most well executed gore effects I have seen, but at least they were practical, fun and pretty imaginative. We also get some very grotty scenes of hardcore that feature some extremely silly looking fake penises, of the kind that we all know and, appreciate, from the work of directors like Andreas Schnaas. The film also features some rather strange moments of surrealism that seem a little out of place considering the films extremely low budget and general middle finger tone throughout. Overall, considering this is a film completely devoid of plot, character’s, acting, common sense and pretty much everything else apart from gore, it is surprisingly entertaining, and at times genuinely nasty. I think the dark grim gory world this film lives in is one that needs to be explored further, and I personally would love to see some kind of sequel. I am going to give this one a 6/10, it’s not bad for what it is, but it’s definitely not for everyone.