Nikos the Impaler
Nikos the Impaler
| 08 March 2003 (USA)
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Due to a botched robbery attempt, a ruthless Romanian barbarian is somehow resurrected in modern day New York and begins wreaking havoc on a small Manhattan art-house. Chaos ensues as the patrons of the establishment band together to fight for their lives. (IMDb)

Reviews
MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant
BallWubba Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.
Luecarou What begins as a feel-good-human-interest story turns into a mystery, then a tragedy, and ultimately an outrage.
Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
mandytgreene Just pass on it. I can't tell you how disappointed I am in this movie. It looks and sounds terrible, the acting, ugh! Not a fan.
HumanoidOfFlesh A bloodthirsty and sadistic Romanian warrior named Nikos is inadvertently brought back to life during a pish-posh art gallery opening in New York.He butchers a lot of stupid people,then the carnage spills onto the streets of New York eventually taking us to a lesbian bar,a movie theater and a video store."Nikos" is a trashy horror flick loaded with tons of gore and awful acting.The body count is very high,though.The characters are poorly developed,but certainly the film delivers the grue.Heads are chopped and squished,breasts are torn off,the guts are spilled and the body parts are cut.The gore is pretty extreme and there is a lot of familiar faces including Felissa Rose,Lloyd Kaufman and Debbie Rochon.Overall,"Nikos" is a lot better than dull "Demonium",but still I'd like to recommend it only for die-hard fans of German gore.5 out of 10.
Derek Groen If you're looking for a professional movie with in-depth acting and nerve-crunching special effects, please turn around and surf back from whence you came.Nikos is none of that; the camera-work is amateuristic at best, the characters are even more flat than my home country and the average viewer would make a better actor than the ones participating in the movie. The special effects (and movie font) remind most of an old PC role-playing game and the plot lacks any form of subtlety.All these elements combined make for a very low-budget, amateuristic and unpretentious production that you'll either hate... or love.Nikos will not impress the viewer, but the freedom of the makers gives a very unforced and unique impression to it. As contradicting as it seems, it is the kind of pure pulp that stays interesting and doesn't cease to surprise.The movie has some parallels with Bad Taste in terms of budget and seriousness, but personally I find Nikos the Impaler to be far more interesting, original and hilarious. In short...Watch it if you are into: Bad Taste, the Evil Dead trilogy, Freddy vs, Jason, Shaun of the Dead or similar movies. Don't watch it if you prefer serious high-budget movies that immerse the viewer in a different reality than this is not the title for you perhaps.
yank_soto My questions is-How much were people paid to give positive reviews for this piece of crap? Maybe they were sent free screener copies of film and they felt obligated to say nice things about it? I say this because I was fooled by the reviews and I went out and bought this piece of garbage. I was expecting a semi professional film at least but I was wrong! This thing is nothing more then a glorified home video and a really poor one at that.The gore was maybe the worst, most amateur looking work that I've ever seen in a film. The acting was horrid. Everything about this movie was terrible! I mean, if this is the director's best work, then I can't imagine how bad his other films had to be. How can any film be worse then this thing?!Do yourself a favor. Take my word for it, this movie is awful! Not so bad it's good or anything like that, it's just plain awful. A complete waste of time and money. AVOID IT.