Germán Magariños is an Agentine film director

Film director

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, film producer

Film producer

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, screenwriter

Screenwriter

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, bassist and sometimes actor

Actor

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Biography

All of his movies are extremely low-budget violent productions considered gore

Splatter film

A splatter film or gore film is a subgenre of horror film that deliberately focuses on graphic portrayals of gore and graphic violence. These films, through the use of special effects and excessive blood and guts, tend to display an overt interest in the vulnerability of the human body and the...

 horror comedies or splatterpunk

Splatterpunk

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, being Ed Wood, Jr and Lloyd Kaufman

Lloyd Kaufman

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 his main influences.

He gain notoriety being one of the very few (4-5?) directors that make his kind of movies in Argentina

Argentina

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, giving him the chance to get his last three movies to the cinemas and the Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre film festival. His movies have also being covered by many websites and magazines all over the world. Goreinvasion can be bought in the USA and Spain. Cannabis Holocaust: Mutant Hell and Sadomaster can be bought in the USA.

In 2005 his movie Goreinvasion won the Dogpile award given by Troma Films. "Sadomaster" was released worldwide in 2006 by SRS Cinema and is available in sites like netflix

Netflix

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 and amazon.com

Amazon.com

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. In 2008 he directed "Un Cazador de Zombis". Magariños is founder and owner of the production company Gorevision films

Gorevision films

Gorevision is a film production and distribution company from Argentina founded by Germán Magariños in 2001. The company produces low budget independent movies, many of which have developed cult followings around the world....

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Music career

He is also a heavy metal musician, he is the bassist of argeninian heavy metal band "Velocidad 22".

Filmography

• Sadomaster 2: Locura General (2010) -In production
• Alan Smithee's Nosferatu (2009)
• Fin de semana en lo de Cicuta (2009)
• Un Cazador de Zombis (2008)
• Sadomaster (2005) Distributed in USA by SRS Cinema
• Goreinvasión (2004)
• Vio la luna... y compró un cementerio (2003)
• La Sangre de Frankenstein (aka LSD Frankenstein) (2002)
• Holocausto Cannabis - USA title: Cannabis Holocaust: Mutant Hell (2001)

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