Adam Chaplin (2011)
AKA: Adam Chaplin: Violent Avenger
Year: 2011
Directed by: Emanuele De Santi
Starring: Emanuele De Santi (Adam Chaplin), Valeria Sannino (Wife), Chiara Marfella (Denny), Giulio De Santi (Derek)
Country: Italy
Language: Italian (English Subtitles)
Runtime: 01:24:28
Genres: Gore-Gruesome-Splatter, Revenge, Horror, Violence against Men
Plot – Spoilers:
Adam Chaplin is a gore-fest with revenge as an excuse for it. Set in the dystopian Heaven Valley, Adam Chaplin’s wife owes a disfigured crime boss Denny some dough and having not paid up on time, she is set on fire. Adam has no choice therefore to summon up some kind of a demon that is forever perched like a figurative monkey on his back and which gives him certain powers. His fists are pure power and there are some enjoyable scenes of hyper-speed battering of people’s faces as Adam goes searching for Denny. To add some drama, Denny sets loose a former military guy on Adam to finish him off before he can get to Denny. The gore is also given a breather with some back-stories detailing Adam and his wife’s relationship and how Denny came to be disfigured.
Many of the violent scenes which include one of Denny’s son’s being impaled appear to have been influenced by anime/manga action sequences. There’s lots of gore, in fact, bucket loads of it at times and Adam Chaplin was described by some at the time of its release as one of the goriest movies ever.
Absolutely brilliant film. FINALLY a shot-on-video movie that doesn’t suck. Could be the bloodiest movie I’ve ever seen as well. This film is for gore freaks and those who appreciate the darkness in life. It won’t be for everybody but I absolutely loved it. The director who pulled this off is to be commended.
As always, thanks to the folks at EUM’s for posting this. I had never even heard of it until seeing it here. Many thanks…we all appreciate what you do.
Master piece of evil and darkness love it
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It was like watching a comic book!
This is brutally fantastic..
Work of art!!! The perfect movie for this site. I always that that the Japanese make films like this one… surprise that it was made in Europe.
I enjoyed the effects and had a good laugh at times. Sadly the gore is just there for the gore. As the characters are just some objects it doesn’t had an effect on me. Just some stupid objects gettin’ ripped apart.
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Bonkers… Like really mad.
Not a bad watch
. Very cartoony and wildly OTT.
Bit of escapism for a early still cold Spring night.
The director’s crew made other movies just as mad as this one. Check em out
This was so insanely awesome!
I love this movie :]
Its like a mix of sci-fi, horror comedy with buckets of blood. Interesting revenge type film unlike any I have seen before. Pure escapism. When I watched this I was reminded of films like ”Evil Dead”, ” Braindead” and others with OTT gore. Well done imo.
that was the most powerful slap i’ve ever seen. my dude literally slapped him with his impaled son.
majestic.
definitely a gem of post-apocalyptic gore cinema. 100% recommended for misanthropic metalheads!
omg i didnt want this film to end, best movie ever, might even watch again. kinda reminded me of tokyo gore police/vidoe game sooooo much gore. more like this please, i appreciate all u do, i love this site
“Show this bitch that God doesn’t exist”
That’s my favorite line in the film.
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Surely an experience, by far the bloodiest film I ever saw. I would call this film a really dark comedy , not for everyone of course but for the gore lovers this film has a lot of it!