Occasionally, just occasionally, a film drops into your lap that is so out there, so over the top and so insane it almost defies belief.

Meat Grinder is one of those films.

Proudly billing itself as the next level in the ‘torture porn’ industry that has spawned the likes of Saw and Hostel, this Thai opus is a gory, crazy and at times near-impossible to follow slice of Asian madness.

With a plot that is part Dumplings, part Sweeney Todd, the film sees central character Buss (Mai Charoenpura) - a dumpling/noodle stall owner, who happens across the fact that chopping people up and feeding them through said meat grinder may be a cheap way of keeping the business going.

Just why she is doing this is somewhat murky, as there are numerous flashbacks, black and white sequences and plot strands that suggest everything from molestation as a child, through to her husband sleeping with another woman, or possibly even the drowning death of her daughter.

In a way you could argue this is a selling point for the film - the fact that it has bothered to come up with a plot of sorts (with some decent acting to boot) rather than just lazily link the gore scenes together, but it is so difficult to follow at times that it just does not work.

But let us not beat about the bush here - anyone who picks this up on DVD is almost certainly going to be doing so for the on-screen bloodshed, and boy does Meat Grinder deliver on that score.

You get ample throat slashings, impalements, hacked limbs, bodies hanging on hooks and buckets of blood which most definitely is not for the faint hearted.

I cannot see Meat Grinder attracting anything other than a very limited audience, but if all of the above is your bag, then this stew of Thai flavour is another example of just how further the Asian film scene is willing to push the envelope.

Meat Grinder is released on DVD on August 23.