100 TEARS (2007)
Director's Cut
Label: Unearthed Films
Region Code: Region-Free
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 95 Minutes 28 Seconds
Audio: English PCM 2.0 with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.78:1)
Director: Marcus Koch
Cast: Jack Amos, Raine Brown, Georgia Chris, Joe Davidson
Marcus Koch's 100 Tears (2007) is a gory splatter flick about about Gurdy the Clown (Jack Amos), a circus clown who after being wrongly accused of crimes he did not commit sets about exacting his gruesome revenge on those who railroaded him to begin with. Dubbed the "Teardrop Killer" his killing spree has lasted for several decades. Now a pair of tabloid reporters, Mark (Joe Davison, Netflix's Stranger Things) and Jennifer (Georgia Chris), have chosen to investigate the grisly murder-spree, picking up on the latest bloodbath, hoping to catch-up to the killer, which sounds (and is) a very bad idea. After interviewing several of Gurdy's former carnie pals, including the diminutive Drago (Norberto Santiago, Hulk Hogan's Micro Championship Wrestling), they learn that his next victim might be a young woman named Christine (Raine Brown, Psycho Holocaust, Sculpture), a naughty little minx with a couple of surprises of her own. Also on the case are police detectives Spaulding (Kibwe Dorsey) and Dunkin (Rod Grant). Gurdy's trail eventually leads to all parties converging in one single location, a poorly lit and grimy spook house of a place, and much bloody carnage ensues.
I am not a huge killer-clown flick fan to be fair, in fact, I have never even seen any of the Terrifier films, I don't know what it is, but when I see a killer in clown make-up it just doesn't "do it" for me. It's not that I have a fear of clown, in fact it;s exactly the opposite. I remember seeing this get the DVD treatment in the 00's and thinking the artwork was pretty cool looking, but then I forgot all about, and never watched it, until now. Honestly, the story is only just serviceable enough to get things started and moving along, but it lost my interest before the half way mark. There's a sort of juicy twist there towards the end, but I saw it coming before it ever got there, so that didn't win me over either. Not to shit on the cast either, but the acting here is no great shakes either, they were no exactly pulling me into what story there was. I did like some of the back and forth between the tabloid journalists with each other and when they were interviewing Drago, but I don't want to over-sell it either.
The real draw here is the extreme carnage courtesy of director Koch’s Oddtopsy FX Group, the gore is sweet and non-stop. - guts are spilled, heads are severed, limbs are hacked, heads are split like logs, and walls and floors a blood-soaked from all the visceral - I mean on just a gore-hound level I think this might be worth checking out, even if I think the story itself is fairly one-note and the execution is largely lacklustre.
Audio/Video: 100 Tears (2007) gets a Blu-ray from Unearthed Films in 1080p HD framed in 1.78:1 widescreen. The film was shot on Digicam HDV and is not exactly HD perfection, there's a lot of filtering to achieve the stylized low-budget look of the film, black levels lack shadow detail and are often crushed, textures are not always abundant, and there's a sickly yellow look to a lot of it, but this looks to have been the desired look when they shot it, and the Blu-ray does what it can with the source. Audio comes by way of PCM 2.0 with optional English subtitles. The track is pretty thin sounding but does the job, like the visuals it sounds low-budget because it was, but dialogue is never a chore to discern and the gruesome sound of carnage and screams comes through just fine.
Extras include the original 93-min 100 Tears Original Cut version of the film, plus an Audio Commentary with Director Marcus Koch & Stephen Biro that delves into the production of the film, stories from the set, and the films cult status. What look to be archival extras include a 45-min Interview with Director Marcus Koch; the 23-min Blood, Guts & Greasepaint: Making of 100 Tears; 21-min Original Behind the Scenes, plus 34-min of Additional Behind the Scenes footage that offers a fly-on-the-wall perspective of the film being made. Additionally there are 21-min of Outtakes; 21-min of Marcus Koch's Childhood Short Film, plus 6-min of Trailers. The single-disc release arrives in a standard keepcase with a single-sided sleeve of artwork featuring the original key artwork.
Special Features:
- 100 Tears Original Cut (92:35)
- Audio Commentary with Director Marcus Koch & Stephen Biro
- Interview with Director Marcus Koch (45:27)
- Blood, Guts & Greasepaint: Making of 100 Tears (23:11)
- Original Behind the Scenes (20:49)
- Additional Behind the Scenes (34:28)
- Outtakes (4:52)
- Marcus Koch's Childhood Short Films (20:44)
- Trailer 1 (2:09)
- Trailer 2 (3:55)
Screenshots from the Unearthed Films Blu-ray:
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