Nikos the Impaler
Violent Shit 4 - Nikos

Germany/USA 2003
produced by
Christian Becker, Joe Zaso (line) for Rat Pack, Schnaas Film, Cinema Image Productions
directed by Andreas Schnaas
starring Joe Zaso, Felissa Rose, Andreas Schnaas, Brenda Abbandandolo, Joseph Michael Lagana, Joe Lattanzi, Alicia Tsai, Mike Russo, Dennis Keeley, Tina Kay, Dennis Albanese, Preston Barnse, Joy Seligsohn, Sal Sirchia, Steve Moramarco, Willie Hill, Frank Gagliardotto, Patrick Tierney, Jasi Cotton Lanier, Darian Caine, Michael Bruno, Victor García, Antonio Tomahawk, Frank Franconeri, Daniel Alvaro, Mike Marino, Hugh C. Daly, Erotida Cruz, Fred Cerniglia, Anne Stampfl, Patricia Ostergaard, Sierra Brandt, Lloyd Kaufman, Debbie Rochon, Bela B.Felsenheimer, Lenise Sorén, Ken Lin, Elton Lin, Tina Krause, Steve Montague, Noémi Matsutani, Barbara Johnson, Rainer Matsutani, Damian Maffei, Ryan Blackwell, Monic Nagel, Christine Maier, Beth Nugent, J.C.Zachary, Jamie Greco, Damien Charles, Jake Bennett, Holly Bennett, Venus Maziarz, Fran Zaso, Frances Zaso, John Zaso, Danny Lopes, Rachel Price, Danielle Rosenthal, Karrie, Vincent Giovantonio, Amy St.Lawrence, Jasmine Cruz, Zalika Quinn, Ray Schwetz, Craig David Rosen, Brian Michael Finn
story by Andreas Schnaas, screenplay by Ted Geoghegan, music by Function Zero, Marc Trinkhaus, songs by Kindergarten, Not Fragile, Hard Surface, special make up by Marcus Koch, Jesus Vega, special effects by Carsten Wieland

Hitler

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Approximately a thousand years ago, Nikos (Andreas Schnaas), a violent barbarian, was brutally killed in Romania. Now, in New York, there is an exhibition of Romanian art through the centuries, and among many other objects, the mask of Nikos ison display, and as it goes in movies like this, somehow a bit of blood gets onto the mask, and this is enough to resurrect Nikos, and in full armour carrying a big sword, too.

Of course, Nikos immediately starts slaughtering people - mainly your typical cannon fodder, a few horny as hell college students, a few guys too gay for their own good, the old couple, the smart girl too intellectual for her own good and so on and so forth. Of xcourse the survivors want to get out, but a) the gallery is built like a labyrinth and b) somehow Nikos has magical powers and has seen to it that the doors are closed, so ultimately of the whole gallery crowd only two make it out, Frank (Joe Zaso), a university professor who has also volunteered at the museum, and Sandra (Felissa Rose), his girlfriend ... and of course Nikos, who now roams the town or at least the block, slaughtering his way through a fitness studio, a lesbian bar, a movie theatre and finally a video store.

In the video store, he proves his magical powers by somehow bringing two ninjas (Ken Lin, Elton Lin), a succubus (Lenise Sorén) and Hitler (Steve Montague) to life by simply sucking them from DVDs (I think) - but Hitler proves such a pain in the ass that Nikos re-kills him right away.

Thing is, frank and Sandra have gone from being the hunted to being the hunters, and they track Nikos and company down to some alley where they dispose of all his little helpers and finally kill him by tearing off his mask and destroying it ...

German punkrocker Bela B.Felsenheimer and genre veterans Lloyd Kaufman and Debbie Rochon play video store patrons who are slaughtered while Seduction Cinema regular Darian Caine is slaughtered under the shower - in the nude, naturally -, but the price for the best cameo goes to Tina Krause as Eva Braun, who gives Nikos head after he has killed Hitler.

For the most part this is your typical slasher: Plenty of (wuite well done and bloody) gore scenes held together by a rather slim and formulaic storyline, and while Nikos the Impaler is certainly no worse than your average slasher as it is, it's also miles away from being a masterpiece - as the genre as such is by and large devoid of masterpieces as it is. It's only in the last quarter of an hour that the film actually seems to come to life and create something original, when Nikos brings to life all these DVD-characters, but alas, it is too little too late and the idea is never explored to its full potential, instead the film culminates in a rather disappointing finale that ends things a tad too apruptly - which is too bad, the whole concept of Nikos and the videokillers would have made an interesting (and far more hilarious) film all of its own. Should Andreas Schnaas ever decide to make the film, I just hope he contacts me (rather unlikely given the fact he doesn't even know me ...).

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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