1/5 SPOILER ALERT, THIS MOVIE IS HORRIBLE
  by Otis Driftwood (Chicago, IL)
I hate the fact that I can't help but look at this movie from two different angles... My personal opinion and How I think some others may view it. My personal opinion, this movie is hot garbage. This is without a doubt one of the absolute worst movies I have ever wasted an hour and a half of my life on. There is absolutely nothing I even remotely enjoyed about Gutterballs whatsoever. Two minutes into this movie and I wanted every single character to die because of how insanely annoying they were. The "killer", while at least original, is cheesy and just plain stupid. The dialogue and acting are on par with some of the worst I have ever seen in my entire life. (I understand this is low budget but this is seriously awful.) The movie goes a lot like this - Bad acting, bad acting, nudity, rape, rape with a bowling pin, bad acting, death, nudity, death, nudity, bad acting, etc., roll credits. I'm sure fans of Gutterballs are gonna think that I just "don't get it." That may be true and thats fine, I don't want to "get it." As a matter of fact, I don't ever want to "get" a movie this bad again. With that out of the way, on to my other point of view. This is what Eli Roth would be making if not for the backing of Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. The only difference between this and a movie like Hostel is about 30 million dollars and 2 big name friends in the movie industry. Gutterballs follows the same formula, "Shock" people with loads of naked women, buckets of blood, and painful scenes involving certain parts of the male body. If you like Eli Roth and Hostel-like movies, you might actually enjoy Gutterballs. I personally don't like either, this movie really makes me wish we could give zero star reviews.

3/5 You Sick Sick Bowling Monkey
  by Brian Lueth (Chicago, IL United States)
Gutterballs is beautiful, it's savage, gory and nasty in the worst, and best, way imaginable. If Ryan Nicholson had made Gutterballs twenty-five years ago this film would be hailed today as "disgusting," "disturbing" and "controversial." It would have been lumped in with amazing exploitation horror like Maniac, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The Last House on the Left, I Spit On Your Grave, Friday The 13th and Cannibal Holocaust. Gutterballs would have been a video nasties candidate through and through; something this grotesque only comes around every so often.

Now, I'm not going to sit around and pontificate about the raw exploitation on display in this film, if you don't know what you're getting into after the first fifteen minutes you're not paying close enough attention. Nicholson, in my opinion, has crafted himself the kind of sick little underground gem that's going to have goremongers stealing from their grandmother's purses to purchase.

The acting ranged from OKAY to bad to HORRIBLE which isn't really a turn-off for me considering I'm a fan of 70's exploitation. If you're expecting stellar acting from a film called "Gutterballs" you're DEFINITELY not paying attention. I was just happy the actors could walk, talk and blink their eyes at the same time! The real draw here is gonna be the possibility of nudity and, like any good slasher film, a major body count and, thankfully, Nicholson & Company don't disappoint! We get some nifty nudity and some of the best gore and kill sequences I've seen in years. Everything about this film was over-the-top and uncalled for...and that's a good thing indeed.

2/5 OK just OK
  by Robert Durkin (OO DURKE OO)
The movie is overly gory with no real story line I found it an OK movie. Lots of T and A though not that good.
Rape scene was awesome and gory, best i have scene even though we all know rape is most definitely a bad thing this movie made it great in a weird creepy way.

Buy it if you like snuff films or if you like a lot of gore in a D grade movie.


But don't expect great because it's just OK.

4/5 Essential purchase.
  by Dave (UK)
"Gutterballs" is a massive improvement on Ryan Nicholson's weak, "hostel" wannabe, "Live Feed" and completely delivered.

If you hate gore drenched, nasty, sick, twisted, exploitative flicks then simply don't watch.

But if you fancy the idea of a well made (technically dubious dialogue recording aside), truly BALLS-OUT exploitation flick done with a fan's enthusiasm and a 70's/80's retro sensibility, topped off with wonderfully inventive kills and superb gore FX then here it is.

The acting is also not 'bad', as some reviewers have said. It's amateur for sure but that does not mean bad.
Although (of course, NOTHING AT ALL EVER COULD BE) not up to the glorious standards of John Waters' movie acting it does have that same fun, go for it, heart in the right place amateur appeal for the most part.
Even the expletive filled script works in the context of the film and it's characters.

Exploitation can fans rejoice, while all others can pass on by and do themselves, and the rest of us all, a big favour.

5/5 Everything I ever wanted
  by Robby Lennon (San Francisco, CA USA)
I'm very into weird and twisted horror and Gutterballs really does it. It had all the cheesy acting of a teen slasher film, plus the extremely brutal violence and graphic sex that you don't see often (enough?) in the genre. A few of the scenes are HILARIOUS, a few are incredibly shocking, a few are cute, and a few are so terribly acted that you can't believe you're watching the film.

I watch a lot of extreme movies, and I'm always looking for something that holds up to my desensitized brain. This hit the mark.

Also, Gutterballs isn't rentable on Netflix, so I bought it. I'm glad I did.