Too much of everything

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Video Violence has some hilarious scenes and a great premise, but it largely fails to deliver. Although a lot of enthusiasm clearly went into it, it suffers from significant problems with its pacing and writing. However, it benefits from some energetic performances.The film consists of an episode of a new show by Howard and Eli, murderers who like to broadcast their killings, and tapes of killings sent in. The film does not have a plot so much as it goes from one kill scene to another. This is not all bad, as there are some interesting kills.The problem is that the film also have a large amount of filler to get it up to barely feature length. Some of the murders drag out with too much dialogue, and not very good dialogue at that. The only thing that keeps this from a lower score is the enthusiasm of some of the performers, particularly the guys who play Howard and Eli. They know not to take this too seriously and ham it up.

Those demented hillbilly sickos Howard and Eli are back and worse than ever. Now these two depraved degenerates have their own pirate variety show on cable television. The decidedly unwholesome program includes commercials for sick items (you just gotta love Wilber, an evil fanged teddy bear that rips out little kids' throats!), terrible groan-inducing stand-up comedy routines, snuff videos sent in by viewers, and the gleeful on-air torture of naive aspiring actress Debbie (hot busty blonde babe Elizabeth Lee Miller). The homemade snuff videos are hilariously mean-spirited hoots: a folksy retired sheriff and his darling wife fry a dangerous criminal in their basement electric chair, a trio of sexy college girls blithely butcher a hunky pizza delivery boy, the staff and patrons at a video rental outlet slaughter an out-of-town chick, and a jolly deli owner tries out his new killing instruments on an unsuspecting lady victim. Writer/director Gary P. Cohen plays the whole warped premise for uproariously tasteless and offensive pitch black humor that's often crudely amusing in an admittedly lowbrow sort of way. Uke and Burt Sumner have a grand hammy time as Howard and Eli; their unrestrained eye-rolling histrionics may not be subtle, but they are quite entertaining. Gordon Ovsiew likewise makes a nice impression as the show's sunglassed hipster geek piano player. Better still, this flick sure doesn't skimp on either the excessive cheesy splatter or tasty gratuitous distaff nudity. A terrifically tacky howler.

In the prologue, a woman enters a vampire's tomb to stake him in the heart. After she does, she withdraws the stake, with the bloody beating heart on it. She's about to lick or bite it when she says she can't - she's on a movie set. The director and crew are annoyed and stake her in the heart for real, drawing her heart out of her body.That's right, this is a black comedy about snuff films!A newscaster explains that pirate broadcasts of "The Howard & Eli Show" have been interrupting regular broadcasts. He is interrupted by one of these broadcasts. The show is a cable-access level show in which Howard and Eli tell bad jokes, show snuff films sent in by their viewers, and torture their guests. In "Wilbur," a boy gets bitten by his toy while his mother looks on, smiling. In "Electric Chair," an ex-sheriff who felt cheated by the fact he'd never witnessed an execution electrocutes someone he kidnapped. In "Pizza Boy," three friends who enjoy the Howard & Eli Show are annoyed by how only kills of women by men are shown. They decide a killing of a man by women would be nice. This segment definitely drags, with some odd slow-motion video effects of dancing. In "The Best Of" an announcer lists the scenes that will be available in Video Violence 2 (they're not available in this movie, which is actually titled Video Violence Two). As he does this, scenes of Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, and Norman Bates entering a woman's shower to kill a woman are shown. Norman doesn't fare as well, since the woman that time has a handgun with her in the shower. In "The Video Studio," an out-of-town woman wants to rent three horror movies (including Funeral Home, and the first Video Violence). They'd rather show her how well their shrink-wrap machine works. In "Deli Dick's", the host displays how a certain slicer works on a woman who's come for a job.Interspersed with this, a woman has come to Howard and Eli's studio under the impression that she's auditioning for a horror movie. They tie her up and mutilate her, to their great amusement. There's a bit of a twist on this towards the end. There are also station IDs for "W.G.O.R.!... yuck!" under which other short scenes of bondage or torture appear that are fairly creepy.Finally, Howard and Eli receive a tape that appears to be from two of their victims from the first movie, that threatens that they will come to the studio and kill everyone. After the end credits a Video Violence 3 is promised, but that does not seem to have ever happened.The movie was shot with a very poor video camera, and the picture quality is fairly bad. This actually works in its favor, since it is supposed to be a pirate broadcast of homemade movies. It does manage to be fairly unpleasant.Both this and the first VV bear the grinning picture of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs and the note "Approved by Bob Dobbs - Used by permission of The Church of the SubGenius" I don't know if anyone associated with the Church was actually affiliated with the movie, but of course SubGenii do appreciate Great Badfilm.

Cool movie and you should see it. Lots of good hacking and breasts. Not as good as the original to me, but I liked it somewhat. In this movie there really isn't any plot- about 60 minutes of it is an actual recording of the Howard and Eli show. the best part of the movie was the organist Gordon, who was really awesome. He also wrote the music. He was the genius behind the music.