100 Tears (2007)

i must have seen a different film!!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

The acting in this movie is really good.

"100 Tears" is a suitably dingy and sickening slasher flick, which at an estimated budget of about $75k, is at least a wonder of frugality.Yes, $75,000 can pay for gallons of blood, viscera, and artificial limbs.What money cannot buy, however, is a decent story, something you either have or you don't. Or characters. Or perhaps, even cohesive direction, which may be an innate gift some have and some don't.The story - not that anyone cares about story in a movie like this - is about a serial killer clown and two obnoxious reporters, one of whom looks like Alex Jones, who track him down where the police have failed because they know how to use a computer and the police don't.The introduction of the clown, shockingly violent though it may be, is handled so witlessly by the filmmaker that it is hopelessly undercut. We see one of the reporters looking at a computer screen and talking about a serial killer on the loose, and then the movie cuts straight to a series of brutal killings by our Bozo. The way this is shot makes it look like the reporter is watching the killings unfold on the computer monitor. They aren't. Some fairly cursory editing could have achieved the effect of having us realise we are witnessing the murders the reporter is describing. This would have provided a sense of mounting dread as we are let into information the reporter doesn't know, and we know they probably wouldn't try to chase up the story if they know what we now know. Get it?Instead of quick cutting from the description of the acts to the violent crimes, as the filmmakers obviously should have done, we get a lengthy scene introducing 'characters' who exist only so that they can be killed, and their introduction grinding the film to a halt - a halt it finally comes to at around one hour into the proceedings, where I was so bored I mostly stopped paying attention.I have put more effort into writing this review than the screenwriters did in writing the movie. But, yes, they really went to town on the gore. One early scene shows a person's head split multiple times by Bozo's big meat cleaver, until the head looks like a pinecone. If you're after sickening, over-the-top gore produced on a microbudget, I guess you already know where to look. Just don't expect anything else.I would like to add, however, that the bad-guy, Gurdy the Clown, is actually scary. Much more so than almost any other slasher villain in any movie made for over one hundred times the budget that this one was made for.

Two writers for a tabloid rag decide to take it upon themselves to do an expose on a series of homicides committed by a killer clown. The first time we see this maniac he's dispatching the numerous residents/staff of some halfway house with ease. The two aforementioned writers get wind of this and decide to go see the aftermath for themselves. Needless to say Mr. Clown isn't happy about this.The story itself is serviceable enough, nothing spectacular in the least, but it's not the main reason to watch this flick anyway as it takes a backseat to the gore. And i mean gore with a capital G. This movie is brimming with the stuff and all of it looks pretty damn good given the budget the film had. The characters weren't too fleshed out, but whatever, it's good enough for a gorehound to pass the time away when one has nothing better to do.My Grade: C+DVD Extras: Audio commentary with Director Marcus Koch & Writer Joe Davison; 20 minute Behind-the-scenes featurette; 23 minute Making-of; 15 deleted scenes; an alternative ending; 5 minutes of Outtakes; and trailers for "The Gamers: Dorkness Rising", "The Suicide Notes" & "Dead Moon Rising"

Poltergeist, Clownhouse, IT, Killer Klowns from Outer Space: if there's one thing that horror films have taught us, it's that clowns are not in the least bit funny; they are, in fact, messed up, creepy assed mo'fos harbouring homicidal tendencies.As if further proof was needed, director Marcus Koch presents us with Gurdy (Jack Amos), the grease-painted circus maniac of splatter-fest 100 Tears. This lumbering looney loves nothing more than to attack his victims with his trusty, over-sized meat cleaver, splashing copious amounts of blood across walls, lopping off heads with ease, and spilling guts all over the floor.Following the trail of dismembered bodies left in Gurdy's wake are intrepid tabloid reporters Mark Webb and Jennifer Stevenson (Joe Davison and Georgia Chris), whose keen investigative skills eventually lead them right into the lair of the killer.100 Tears is a rough-around-the-edges, low budget flick featuring a cast of unknowns, whose acting talents range from the fairly reasonable to the totally inept. Likewise, Koch's handling of his material displays varying levels of competence, with some scenes demonstrating a keen sense of style, and others betraying the novice director's lack of experience.The good news is that, although Koch's direction is uneven, the guy sure knows what he is doing when it comes to delivering the gore, and for horror fans who love the red stuff, his film proves to be an unmissable treat. It's the impressive bloody effects (also by Koch) that are the real stars of 100 Tears, and the countless severed heads, spurting arteries, coils of glistening innards, and rivers of blood more than make up for the occasional lull in action and odd spot of iffy dialogue (there are way too many lame scatological quips for my liking!).Throw in a slutty, self harming teen who turns out to be Gurdy's equally homicidal daughter, and a hilarious chase scene involving a sprightly dwarf, and what you have is a delightfully trashy gore-fest that should put a smile on the face of any discerning gore-hound.

A huge creepy looking clown Gurdy walks through a halfway house and systematically slaughters at least a dozen people with meatcleaver.The gore flows freely in the first 15 minutes.Two reporters Mark and Jennifer are investigating the legendary 'Teardrop Killer',who's been butchering unsuspecting groups of victims for 20 plus years."100 Tears" is among the goriest indie slasher movies I have ever seen.I must say that the bodycount is truly high and the killings are over-the-top including several juicy decapitations and dismemberments.The techno score is annoying,the acting is mediocre and the climax is abrupt,but if you enjoy drowning in the sea of blood and guts "100 Tears" can't be missed.7 out of 10.