I’m all in favor of eye-catching headlines and attention-grabbing titles.  I’ve used–or tried to use–my share and then some, but when you title a movie Sadistic Dismemberment, you’d better be swinging some serious meat around, otherwise you’re just pandering.

And in this case, yes, it’s pandering.

Sadistic Dismemberment is pretty much what it says on the box, following a young man around through his day, which mostly consists of getting up, brushing his teeth, eating some cereal and then rummaging around in what looks like his little sister’s closet before he’s caught and sadistically dismembered.

I have to admit, there were plenty of laughs in this one.  Even I, a horror buff of decades, am not sure what use a pasta serving spoon, a ladle, and a small dog have in a graphic dismemberment.

Of course, the obvious problems are here.  There’s no plot. Forget about understanding things like why the ghost is attacking this poor schlub.  There’s plenty of continuity errors–things are almost cut off but never actually done, and will reappear whole in the next shot.  The music is all taken directly from video games, and the director has apparently been inspired by a laundry list of Japanese horror films which he thanks in the end.

The Screenhead Ten Scale is always willing to acknowledge effort and thus hands over a straight five out of ten.  It definitely made me laugh, but I think I was laughing AT it a lot more than WITH it.