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Gwar history?

Jerry D. Micronis | 08/01/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

"ok if you are looking for gwar's history, then you thought wrong, well with oderus and sleazy hosting this, you don't get them explaining anything. i guess they wanted to be dicks. personally i think it's funny. it's how gwar has always been. but if you watch the dvd. it kinda shows history. it shows very old (and young at that) gwar before they even had full out costumes. made out of paper macahe (however you spell that). so you actually get to see oderus's face as a young dave brockie and he is funny looking as it is. i'm kinda disappointed thinking they were going to get into detail about alot of stuff, but they don't really. they just show alot of old footage. i'm a die hard fan so i knew not to expect much because all die hard fans should know the story or history anyway. this dvd is nothing but footage and a couple funny laughs along the way. the footage could have been alot better i'll agree, but most def. a pick up for any die hard fan. if you are a person who wants to know a little bit of gwar history, get the skullhedface dvd and check out the special features in that and dave brockie actually tells more about how they found out about all their technology behind a gwar show."

It's good, but could have been better GWAR

Marcus Eriksson | Sweden | 09/08/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Basically, Blood Bath & Beyond is indeed a retrospective DVD documentary of archive footage spanning throughout GWAR's entire bloodshed upon the world. Hosted by Oderus Urungus and Sleazy P. Martini, it's set up like an award show where the material shown represents nominated work.

There's much to see, and some hilarious (bordering on sick) extra features, but being a retrospective DVD I do miss some more background, in-deep reflections by GWAR's members. BalSac, Beefcake, Flattus, Jizmak along with Techno Destructo and Sexecutioner should all have gotten some space to contribute with explainations, look-backs and thoughts. As it is now, the footage kind of have to speak for itself and knowing GWAR it is not always easy to make out where in the timeline to place what.

Overall I enjoy it as a GWAR movie, but it doesn't get as high as it aims."