Product Details

• Actors: Alastair Gamble, Mihola Terzic, Nathan Witte, Candice Lewald, Jeremy Beland
• Directors: Ryan Nicholson
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: TLA
• DVD Release Date: January 27, 2009
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001M4YZ86
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,979 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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"It's pure balls to the wall entertainment! You're guaranteed to have some fun." --Horror-fanatics.com

Product Description

From the director of LIVE FEED comes the most outrageous, gross-out flick of the year! A brutally sadistic rape leads to a series of bizarre gory murders during a midnight disco bowl-a-rama at a popular bowling alley. One by one, players of two teams meet blood-drenched gruesome deaths at the hand of a black bowling-gloved masked killer. This alley will run red with blood by sunrise and the shocking twist that reveals the killer will shock even the most jaded viewer!

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20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 9 pins short of a strike, January 10, 2009

By	Tim Brough "author and music buff" (Springfield, PA United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

Flashing back to the glory days of gory days, "Gutterballs" reworks a classic 80's teen-slasher formula and drops it into a bowling alley. Shot with a cast of unknowns, crappy lighting and cliched dialogue, "Gutterballs" looks and feels like it was flashed forward from 1982.

However, there is one notable exception. "Gutterballs" amps the sexual violence way past the norm with a near eight minute graphically sadistic gang rape that sets the rest of the movie into motion. It will repulse you and frankly, it sets "Gutterballs" close to a level of grindhouse porn. But then again, one of the first things you see is an eventual victim bending over in her oh-so-short skirt and exposing her camel-toe. The film does have 'gutter' in the title, and it more than lives up to its name.

Like all z-grade horror, there's a batch of (over the top) teens in some sort of conflict, and this time it's a pair of bowling team o'teens set up for an after-hours grudge match. Our hottie gets attacked before everyone shows up, but has something more in mind than calling the cops. When the opposing sides are gathered, suddenly the bowling alley is mysteriously chained shut and the grisly body counts and naked bodies start to mount. There's plenty of inventive murder effects to be had in "Gutterballs," with one of the first being a couple smothered during (again, borderline pornographic) 69 in a restroom.

If it weren't for the fact that the action is so far past the pale, "Gutterballs" would be an utter failure. The cast rates barely past high-school improv and the script - well, my guess is the only things really plotted were the rapes and kills. Otherwise, there's about a page or meaningful dialogue to be cobbled away from the inane spewing of profanity and sex. There's probably more f--ks blurted out in "Gutterballs" than there was in Scarface, and that's saying something.

Is "Gutterballs" cheap and cheesy, slick and sleazy? Heck yes. Although I must admit, the ending did catch me off guard by about one third, so maybe pure gorehounds might get a kick from the naked boobies and the sexual violence. I can even say I liked this more than Hostel II, so if you thought those were too tame, then "Gutterballs" is up your alley.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars You Sick Sick Bowling Monkey, September 10, 2009

By	Brian Lueth "WildsideCinema.com" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews

Gutterballs is beautiful, it's savage, gory and nasty in the worst, and best, way imaginable. If Ryan Nicholson had made Gutterballs twenty-five years ago this film would be hailed today as "disgusting," "disturbing" and "controversial." It would have been lumped in with amazing exploitation horror like Maniac, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Last House on the Left, I Spit On Your Grave, Friday The 13th and Cannibal Holocaust. Gutterballs would have been a video nasties candidate through and through; something this grotesque only comes around every so often.

Now, I'm not going to sit around and pontificate about the raw exploitation on display in this film, if you don't know what you're getting into after the first fifteen minutes you're not paying close enough attention. Nicholson, in my opinion, has crafted himself the kind of sick little underground gem that's going to have goremongers stealing from their grandmother's purses to purchase.

The acting ranged from OKAY to bad to HORRIBLE which isn't really a turn-off for me considering I'm a fan of 70's exploitation. If you're expecting stellar acting from a film called "Gutterballs" you're DEFINITELY not paying attention. I was just happy the actors could walk, talk and blink their eyes at the same time! The real draw here is gonna be the possibility of nudity and, like any good slasher film, a major body count and, thankfully, Nicholson & Company don't disappoint! We get some nifty nudity and some of the best gore and kill sequences I've seen in years. Everything about this film was over-the-top and uncalled for...and that's a good thing indeed.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything I ever wanted, May 13, 2009

By	Robby Lennon (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I'm very into weird and twisted horror and Gutterballs really does it. It had all the cheesy acting of a teen slasher film, plus the extremely brutal violence and graphic sex that you don't see often (enough?) in the genre. A few of the scenes are HILARIOUS, a few are incredibly shocking, a few are cute, and a few are so terribly acted that you can't believe you're watching the film.

I watch a lot of extreme movies, and I'm always looking for something that holds up to my desensitized brain. This hit the mark.

Also, Gutterballs isn't rentable on Netflix, so I bought it. I'm glad I did.