Born in Hamburg, Germany on April 1, 1968, filmmaker Andreas Schnaas embraced the cinema at a very young age. Since many of the local theaters in his city didn't care about how young their patrons were, he was exposed to violent martial arts, zombie films, and splatter at a very tender age. The results, as his films portray, are quite unmistakable. Schnaas has become the poster-boy for Germany's ultra-violent horror film industry. Schnaas' parents were not always pleased with his choice of entertainment, but recognized his artistic talents and vivid imagination. He used this imagination, compounded with his love of horror, to make his first film at age twelve. The film, entitled Hunted, featured Andreas and his friend killing a man, who was played by his grandfather. His father filmed this feature, as well as many other movies that the boys made over the next several years. With no budget, Andreas took what he had and made the very most of it. It wasn't until 1989, however, that he mustered together five thousand marks - enough to make his first full-length feature. Shot with his friends over four extremely long weekends, Schnaas' gory tale of "Karl the Butcher", entitled Violent Shit (1987), went on to become Germany's first direct-to-video horror film. Catapulting into an overnight sensation, the film quickly appeared on video stores in America and the rest of Europe. When asked where he came up with such a vulgar title for his film, he once explained that a pen pal frankly told him, "All you're making is violent sh*t," and it stuck. Still spiraling off of Violent Sh*t's unexpected success, Andreas created his homage to the undead with Zombie 90 - Extreme Pestilence (1990), the English version of which features the most hilarious dubbing ever committed to celluloid. The following year, he decided to continue the story of Karl with Violent Shit 2 - Mother Hold My Hand (1992), eventually releasing it in 1992. The fans' outcry for a final film in the series kept Schnaas going - filming the third portion of the Violent Sh*t trilogy the next year. Budget constraints kept the film from being released for years, but it eventually saw the light of day in 1999 under the title, Violent Shit III - Infantry of Doom (or Zombie Doom in the US). Andreas also played the killer, Karl, in all three films. Andreas then directed Der Kelch - Goblet of Gore (2005) in 1996, although various issues kept it shelved until 2005. As a homage to Italian director Joe D'Amato , he then remade the classic slasher film, Anthropophagous, changing the title to Anthropophagous 2000 (1999). It was also in 1999 that Andreas began preparing for his next film, which he would release as his "millennium shocker". The movie, Demonium (2001), was his first 35MM project, made with completely professional actors and shot in English. Schnaas then directed his first film in America, Nikos (2003) - which featured Demonium star Joe Zaso and Felissa Rose of the 80s classic, Sleepaway Camp. After that, he directed the zombie action film Don't Wake the Dead (2007). He currently lives in Rellingen, Germany, with his wife and children.
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A group of women, hired to assist with an impromptu concert, spend the evening at an ancient German castle. Unbeknownst to them, they've chosen the worst night on Earth to visit, as every sixty-six years, the long-dead bodies of Templar Knights buried there have the chance to wake and feast upon the living...
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2023 and Karl The Butcher Jr Returns from hell after 25 years, and is on a mission to kill a new butcher, Axe. But the world he returns to is in devastation, civilization is split between gangs, including the Gang loco, The Others, the tyrant Queen Scara, The Black Monks, and of course, the nomads Axe and his sister Vendetta whose family history is unknown. An ultra-violent journey in a wasteland awaits...
Drilled by his deranged mother, Karl the Butcher jr. takes revenge for the gruesome death of his father. Anyone who sets foot on the forest has to die. Hold on to your limbs as Karl jr. slaughter his victims to some amazing tunes of terror. Decapitation is just the beginning...
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3 men get stranded on an island. They are captured by this group of people who turn out to be members of a group under the direction of Karl Sr. and his son Karl Jr., who are the famous butcher/slashers from the first two Violent Shit movies. Soon these three men and a bunch of exiles are given a chance to run away from the group members; unlike some others who are brutally murdered. However they decide to fight back and a gory and violent battle ensues.