Voxitype
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Hayden Kane
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Kien Navarro
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de)
"Das komabrutale Duell" or "The Coma-Brutal Duel" is a German 80-minute film from 1999. The writer and director here is Heiko Fipper and he is also one of the actors. I am not sure you can say "actors", as no cast member has any acting experience apparently. From what I saw here, I refuse to call Fipper a filmmaker. It is actually his second movie. His first work is from the early 1990s and then he took a break of eight years and then he made this one here. I have no idea why he returned to filmmaking as it is certainly not the case that he improved his skills whatsoever and his first can't be worse than this one here I guess. Anyway, the title is already as baity as it gets, but the film is not good at all, or probably right what you would expect looking at a title. It's gore and splatter from start to finish, but the production values go close to zero really and it looks amateurish during its entire 80 minutes. And sadly, the effects, an area that these films usually make up for weak storytelling, are not good at all either. Is there a good thing about this film? Yes there is. It shows aspiring young filmmakers that you can still make a somewhat known movie, even if you have no talent at all. Apparetntly, Fipper has understood that filmmaking is definitely not his area of expertise and he has not made a new film in the almost 2 decades since this one. I highly suggest you stay far far away.
osborneshawn
So this movie has been given the distinction of 'goriest movie ever'. OK..well does that mean it has to be absolutely horrible and have no decent acting or storyline twists ? I'm a lover of macabre cinema and watch a lot of extremely violent movies, as well as movies about controversial subjects. I'm not afraid to push the envelope a little bit, more than the average viewer, perhaps. But this movie is just gore for gore's sake and really is just plain gross. Its not even worth watching in my opinion. I gave it a three just for the distinction it carries, but other than its designation as 'goriest movie of all time ' there are no real reasons to watch this movie. Its not even put together very well and the plot is only in place to support a horrific splatter fest on screen. I am glad I didn't pay for it..and I can see why it was included as a free 'bonus' item in a shipment I won through an Ebay auction. The bonus will be the $2 I sell it for at a garage sale, I guess.
ElijahCSkuggs
First off, Im not even gonna attempt to tell you what this movie is about. My copy like the others around here was without subtitles. You can look at theirs if you want to know what the story is. But really, that ain't the reason why you're watching this. You're watching it because it could be the goriest movie ever made. If you got your mitts on Das Komabrutale Duell, you've most likely got your mitts also on Braindead and Premutos. Well, I'm gonna go into what each offers, and tell you which one is king of what.Let's start first with DKD. Out of the three, this is by far the most amateur. It's really just a crappy movie. But, it's so packed with blood and violence, it's semi-watchable. For pure violence, this is in my opinion, the most violent movie out there. I haven't seen the Violent Sh!t movies, but I'd put money down that this probably beats it. It's non-stop stupid violence. Punching, kicking, slicing, stabbing, shooting, sawing, stomping etc, etc. Like I just said, it's non-stop violence, but it's so amateurish, it never feels impressive. The blood, if you wanna call it that (since it looked like brown, soupy diarrhea for apart of it) is all over the place in this flick, but it's mostly just little sprays. But those little sprays add up and probably number close to 100. That means, there's alotta blood. DKD also has probably the most blood with the least amount of people dying in a film. Unless you wanna count movies like The Shining when the elevator opens and blood floods out or Army of Darkness where gallons of blood shoots out of the well. But all in all, I'd say DKD is the most violent movie out there, and is the third goriest. But it's also easily the worst movie out of the the big three.Premutos on the other hand goes down as king of the most deaths. With a total of I think 139 deaths, the other big two don't even come close. It's not as violent as DKD or as gory as Braindead, but it definitely takes the cake with the most deaths and head explosions. Oh and it's pretty funny, thanks to the horrendously awful dubbing. Which is also the preferred way to view the movie.Braindead aka Dead Alive is the king when it comes down to almost all important aspects concerning to a splatter flick. The effects were top notch, the creativity was high (though the tank in Premutos was I guess creative), the amount of blood is gigantic, the deaths were many, the body parts and innards are also aplenty. Unlike DKD which was basically all blood spray, and Premutos which may come close to gore, Braindead does it best with a plethora of all things a splatter fan could want. Not only is it easily the best of the big three, it's also one of the best horror/comedies out there as well. Some may think DKD has more blood, and that just ain't the case. You're just a hater.So there ya go, what most real hardcore splatter fans already know, I'll repeat again. Braindead rules as the best and goriest splatter flick. Premutos comes in second as with the most deaths and gore. And Das Komabrutale Duell places third in the gore contest, but is definitely the most violent movie out there. You could argue that it's gorier than Premutos just because of the large amount of fake blood (which looked awful), but who gives a crap about second and third....and being boring as hell doesn't help it much either.
EVOL666
Honestly, I have no f!cking idea what DAS KOMABRUTALLE DUELL is about. I have a Geramn language only copy and as I don't speak German, the "finer points" were totally lost on me. I will say that it ranks up there with some of the goriest films ever made - but from what I witnessed, it also ranked amongst the stupidest films ever made as well.The storyline seemed to revolve around some rival gangs that are trying to slaughter each other. Problem is, it doesn't seem like anyone can ever die. People get shot 100 times, chainsawed, beaten with objects, and all other sort of mayhem, and they just keep coming back for more. At one point, some of the gang-members come back as zombies (or something to that nature) but this doesn't seem to have any real effect either...Again, I really don't know what the hell was going on here. It seemed like a retarded cluster-f!ck of a film that I think was trying to be some sort of splatter comedy. The gore FX, though plentiful, are weak and laughable, and the whole production seems like it was shot on a weekend by a bunch of drunk teenagers. Some will be interested strictly because of the ridiculous amount of fake blood used in the film - but even that does not save this piece of garbage. The only people who I can seriously see gaining any sort of enjoyment from these films are those that REALLY like crappy zero-budget gore films, like Andreas Schnaas' sh!tty films. If you're a fan of crap like the VIOLENT SH!T films, then you'll probably love this one. All others should either steal this from someone or pass altogether, as it is ABSOLUTELY not worth paying for...2/10 (and that's only for the "fetus" scene)
