Vore Gore Review from TetroVideo!
Severed Cinema regular, Domiziano Cristopharo, and his production company Enchanted Architect are no strangers to anthology films – we have covered many of them! From anthologies like Tales to Tell in the Dark (read the review here), and A Taste of Phobia (read review here), to the exceedingly extreme Deep Web XXX (read review here), and the absolutely depraved insanity that is XXX Dark Web (read review here), Domiziano has a fondness for the horror short. This time around our focus is on paraphilias and fetishes. Vore Gore follows the paraphilia, vorarephilia, as the central theme here. Vorarephilia, simply put, is when one derives sexual stimulation with the thought of being devoured alive. We’re in for an interesting experience ahead…
We immediately begin with a pair of sexy lips proclaiming Mouth. The wraparound story within Vore Gore is a set of sparkly lips announcing each subsequent short film. The wraparound story is done by Irene Baruffetti, entitled The Lips. The beginning short is literally the credit sequence called Mouth and directed by Mikel Balerdi.
Mouth begins with close-up shots of what possibly appears to be a nasty gory mouth having teeth extracted. There are shots of an old man’s mouth, close-up, with him removing dentures, only gums left behind. This is all intercut with footage of an uncircumcised penis being slashed by a blade (which looks more like it’s being painted with paint from Dawn of the Dead). The footage and editing get increasingly chaotic with cuts, more realistic penile slicing, some gnarly feet, eyeballs, and gummy old-man-mouth again. There’s a snipping of a bell-end that is rather realistic, however.
Moving on, we have tiger striped lips this time. The lips announce, Sweet as Honey, as our next short, directed by Emanuele Marchetto of Deep Web XXX & XXX Dark Web fame. Here we open to a beekeeper tending to the maturity of a bee sanctuary located on a serene mountaintop in the middle of nowhere.
After some inspection our beekeeper, selects one bee to have a tumultuous meeting with a wasp from a location inside of a jar. Sometime later our beekeeper can be seen standing naked, masturbating from inside some rubble basement, dungeon, or lair. There he is greeted by the ghost of his naked self, who immediately attacks him, as a somewhat allegory to the bee/wasp conflict previously.
Sweet as Honey has some beautiful cinematography and scenery, but somehow falls flat.
Next up, our lips adorned in red lipstick are rotated vaginally and announce, Finger Lickin Good, as our next short directed by Lorenzo Zanoni (Ill: Final Contagium). Finger Lickin Good follows the antics of a decent looking twenty-something who sucks his thumb with a teddy bear in tow.
One evening whilst sucking thumb, he is lured to his bathroom sink drain. Once in front of the mirror he makes some faces and begins to brush his teeth. Enamoured by his hock of toothpaste scum he spit into the drain, he has uncontrollable puzzling sexual thoughts, flickering between the drain and a real vagina he watched on TV earlier. One thing inexplicably leads to another, and next thing we know, our pretty boy starts to scoop out one of his eyeballs in a first-rate tribute to Splatter Naked Blood! Once the ocular ball is removed, it’s dismissed down the drain. Next body part to be rid of? His tongue, which is sliced away by fork and knife. What body part comes next? Insert immense disgust to that answer here.
A pair ofstarry glitter-adorned red lips declares Please, Not in My Mouth, which is the next short from Poison Rouge (American Guinea Pig: Sacrifice). Please, Not in My Mouth, was previously reviewed by Severed Cinema alumni Jay Creepy (read the review here). This short is a music video Poison Rouge created for Daniel Valient’s White Gardenia. In Mr. Creepy’s review, he goes it depth with a solid five out of five rating so be sure to read his musings on this short.
Segment five is delivered by sown-together-lips on a black-painted face, entitled Italian Ladies do it Better, directed by Irene Baruffetti. This short follows a fashion designer who gets the opportunity to create one of her dresses for a company called Diamond Style in “Manhatten.” She has one week to produce sample to, and immediately gets working, which results in her sowing through her finger in a freak accident. Will she be able to produce her design and show off her work or, will the pressure be too much?
Moving on, our wraparound announcer with flaky nasty lips declares Infernal Gluttony 2 is out next short from director Patrick Fortin (Urban Flesh). For this body horror short we witness our hero, a longhaired mess of a man, devouring piles of gory filth ornamenting the table in front of him. He chomps on as much gore and entrails as he can fit in his lips. This is by far the goriest creation on the list and is an excessively gory interlude to the next short film.
Yummy Fur proclaims our sexy red lips, for our next short in Vore Gore, which is by White Gardenia. Our protagonist, Cherokee Nevin, proclaims her love for White Gardenia, and Daniel Valient from the get-go, including footage of him hacking off his pinky in XXX Dark Web, which left this writer uneasy for quite some time after my initial viewing of that anthology. This time around I am surrounded by dread and uneasiness with this short, for Cherokee Nevin reveals she wants to be the first person to ingest a piece of her genitals. Immediately I am worried. Am I about to see something more disturbing than the Daniel Valient segment in XXX Dark Web? I had to gear myself up for what is to come. Cherokee Nevin, fashioning a Burzum t-shirt — akin to certain characters in the works of SamHel — begins masturbating with a pair of scissors. Blood is introduced to the scissors, and what’s next may or may not be real. Knowing Daniel Valient’s modus operandi, I’m leaning towards the latter, which left me uneasy.
Moving forward, please deliver me some solace, I pleaded with myself. Sparkly lips say the words Stretching, revealing the title of our next short. This, the second last short in Vore Gore, is directed by Domiziano Cristopharo and written by collaborator Andrea Cavaletto (Doll Syndrome, Xpiation), which focusses on the psychological struggle of one man, played by Lorenzo Fedele.
The main character has a unique paraphilia, which is an abnormal desire for confinement in an enclosed space, called claustrophilia. This character kicks claustrophilia up a notch as he seems to derive sexual pleasure at enclosed spaces. He fantasizes about being small enough to fit inside a doll house, pleasures himself as he looks at photos of caves on his phone, and squeezes himself into tight spaces. This paraphilia, however, manifests itself with extreme inner turmoil as we see our character struggling literally more and more with his bizarre fetish.
Our final tail is announced via eggshell-covered glistening lips which state The Egg is our next short directed by Dario Almerighi (Me and the Devil), which follows a cloaked man adorned in a face mask in a wooded area. Methodically walking along a path, he stops at an area of soil and plants what looks like a chicken egg. Time passes and we see that the egg has hatched into a lady in a white gown. What follows is an allegorical yet grisly finale.
Vore Gore showcases an enjoyable eccentric assortment of shorts via Enchanted Architect, with varying degrees of extremeness. All the shorts herein show uniqueness, and all seem to lend themselves to the thematic topic of vorarephilia quite well. Finger Lickin Good, Infernal Gluttony 2, Yummy Fur,and even The Egg, get top marks for excessive violence and extreme gore, which are sure to satiate gorehound’s appetites.
Vore Gore is coming later in 2021 from TetroVideo, so be sure to check back to Severed Cinema for release updates.
Directed by: Domiziano Cristopharo, Lorenzo Zanoni, Emanuele Marchetto, Irene Baruffetti, Mikel Balerdi, Dario Almerighi, Poison Rouge, Patrick Fortin, Daniel Valient, Cherokee Nevin | Written by: Mikel Balerdi, Emanuele Marchetto, Emanuel Trotto, Lorenzo Zanoni, Daniel Valient, Domiziano Cristopharo, Irene Baruffetti, Patrick Fortin, Andrea Cavaletto, Dario Almerighi | Produced by: Donovan Smith, Fabio K. Ryan, Michael Peelman, Marco Serra Degani, Roberto Migliari | Cinematography by: Domiziano Cristopharo, Dario Almerighi, Daniele Trani, Mattia Migliori, | Music by: Omar Ferrero, White Gardenia | Special Effects by: Mikel Balerdi, Grazia D’Amaro, Athanasius Pernath, Patrick Fortin, Arianne Langelier| Cast: Irene Baruffetti, Lorenzo Fedele, Cherokee Nevin, Steve Swadda, Gabriele Zanoni, Poison Rouge | Year: 2021 | Country: UK | Language: English | Colour: Colour | Runtime: 1h 28min
Studio: Enchanted Architect
Distributor: TetroVideo
