FILM GUTTER REVIEWS: TOP 5 FUNNIEST FILM GUTTER MOVIES

I have said it before and I’ll say it again – there are an awful lot of very good movies that I get to review in my line of work as an extreme horror reviewer. With that said, a movie can land 8, 9 or even 10 out of 10 without being any fun whatsoever. They can be well-made, and artistic, and impactful, but all too often often they’re more brutal and upsetting than they are fun. But there have been a handful of exceptions to that – and we’re going to explore the five movies that have given me the most laughs in all the years of Film Gutter so far.

TOP 5 FUNNIEST FILM GUTTER MOVIES

5) Sex Galaxy
This one was sold by the director as a ‘green film’ – that is, it’s made from entirely recycled footage dubbed over with a new soundtrack. Very environmentally friendly of him. And the end results is absolutely hilarious, with a background of campy 50s SF overlaid with a story of space explorers desperately seeking out sex after the act has been banned on Earth due to overpopulation. It actually has a surprisingly sweet finale, but other than that is just hilarious in a low-brow way. Half the lines feel improvised, which they may or may not be, but that sense only adds to the hilarity. Don’t expect your intellect to be challenged, but you might well chuckle a number of times to yourself.

4) Postal
Sometimes I feel like Uwe Boll just doesn’t get enough love – sure, he has made some less than stellar movies, but a lot of the back catalogue is average or above in my opinion. Movies like Stoic and Seed hold up well, and honestly I feel like outside of the video game movies Boll has a fair back catalogue. With all that said, Postal was (loosely) based on a controversial video game, and the movie is up there with it in terms of questionable taste. If you’re easily offended I would honestly suggest sitting this one out, but if you love humour that really pushes the boundaries I think you are bound to get something out of Postal.

3) The Human Centipede: Final Sequence
Let’s be honest, the first part of this series offered pretty much zero laughs, and the middle instalment even less than that. Can a movie offer minus laughs? Like actually take away laughs from other things? If so, the second Human Centipede movie was probably the one that did. But the third did something distinctly different again, serving up an absolutely outrageous, overblown black comedy with Dieter Laser inspired as the screaming Bill Boss. Plenty of it was gross, but it was a suitably wry and self-referential conclusion to the infamous trilogy. Lots of fun for those whose sense of humour is the darkest of the dark.

2) Marquis
This one was a revelation upon discovery, and headed up my top 5 movies of this year with its surreal mix of puppetry and ribaldry following the imprisonment of the Marquis De Sade and the cast of jailors, priests and prisoners around him. It’s a surreal experience for sure, and there are any number of laughs that come from its more obscene elements – it might just have my favourite comedy line of all time in it. You’ll probably know within ten minutes if it’s going to be your cup of tea, but this just hit the right part of the funny bone for me.

1) Pervert!
Some of the team from this also worked on Sex Galaxy, which got a very favourable mention above, and it shows in the similar sense of humour the two share. This one is an absolutely in your face, unapologetic homage of Russ Meyer’s movies, following a young man who moves into his father’s house only for his penis to go on a killing spree after a voodoo curse. It sounds bonkers, and it is bonkers, a sort of throwback to a very different time of filmmaking. It’s also an absolute stitch in its own low-brow manner, and goes on the top of the list as the movie that made me laugh the very most in the whole of the Film Gutter experience so far.

That wraps up January’s top 5 month – we’ll be back to our regular programming for February!