There are a few things one should know about the German filmmaker-turned-restaurateur-turned-filmmaker again, Uwe Boll.

His films are graphic. The opening credits of his 2007 horror flick Seed, for example, are displayed over a backdrop of animal abuse / torture footage. The same film also features a scene in which a tied-up woman is shown getting bludgeoned with a lumberjack’s axe for five consecutive minutes.

Many believe his films are also bad. How bad? Two of his works appear on IMDb’s “Bottom 100” list among the worst films ever made. In 2009, Boll was honored at the Razzies (Oscars for terrible movies) with a “Worst Career Achievement” award.

He once challenged his critics to a boxing match, and beat the shit out of four of them in one night. In response to the aforementioned criticism, Boll — who apparently trains in boxing when he isn’t making widely-panned movies — once stepped into the ring with four critics who gave his movies negative reviews, obliterating all of them one-by-one. “I thought it was a PR stunt and it was a joke and he was going to be nice,” said one victim, Richard Kyamaka, who suffered a first-round knockout loss after getting battered worse than the woman from Seed. “And then he just brutalized me.”

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Boll also once gave the following response to a negative review from WIRED magazine about his film Postal (shown below, verbatim):

your review shows me only that you dont understand anything about movies and that you are a untalented wanna bee filmmaker with no balls and no understanding what POSTAL is. you dont see courage because you are nothing. and no go to your mum and fuck her ...because she cooks for you now since 30 years ..so she deserves it.

Are the uninitiated up-to-speed yet? Good.

Let’s turn, then, to Boll’s latest film, Citizen Vigilante, released last Friday by Quiver Distribution. Though many online commentators appear to have not actually watched it, Vigilante has been the talk of X for the past week now, already becoming something of a social media phenomenon. Why? Well, for one, it stars Armie Hammer — fresh off the actor’s sexual assault allegations / drug escapades / texts fantasizing about cannibalism — as a Batman-like figure cracking down on crime in Europe committed by migrants, and for two… it’s already been effectively banned by the entire nation of Germany.