There were some things that the film did quite well and others that weren't so successful (attempts to have flashbacks to the murderer's childhood came off as pointless and vague). 30 people are murdered, and the 55 gallons of blood that IMDB claims was spilled amazingly sounds accurate. it's definitely not good by any means, but it was certainly not something I'll forget. So, was it a good movie? The verdict is still out. a really funny scene that had me laughing out loud.
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Gunner Hannsen and Edwin Neal (both from TCM) show up briefly, the latter lampooning his Hitchhiking role, and Tony Todd (Candyman) has in the best scene in the movie as the cashier at a porn shop.
this cool 70s-sounding music appears a few times in the film, a nice touch.Īlso, there are three great cameos that I picked up. There are scenes when the murderer is going up and down escalators in Las Vegas and some very giallo-esque music plays in the background. it's hard to guage a performance from the main character when his two reactions are stone-faced and "look at me, I'm killing you." Good direction and good use of the soundtrack as well. The acting ranged from poor to servicable. He fought the bad guys in World War II." "But wasn't he German?" ".") There are references to German weapons, Nazi flags, and a video of Hitler playing in the background of one scene, but so much more could have been done with it. There's also a Nazi aspect to the story that's brought up a few times, but frustratingly nothing is done with it. I don't believe I have to elaborate on that. There are a few Gein-isms to be found here. he hasn't quite succeeded (SCHRAMM this is not) but it was neat catching a lot of the references to famous psychopaths.
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I had no problem with the rest of the film, which was pretty much disgusting and over-the-top gore and torture scenes.ĭirector Nick Palumbo seems to have tried to make the "ultimate" serial killer in his German photographer. It seems the aim of this film is to offend as much as possible, and there were about four times that I felt "this is a bit too much" (two of the rapes and the afformentioned child murders). Rape in itself is pretty repelent, but the site of women caked in blood and screaming at the top of their lungs while this guy rams them from behind violently was pretty difficult to watch at times. The other thing that got to me were some of the rapes. I'm pretty jaded, but I don't consider seeing a man shove a butcher knife in a 12 year old girl's stomach or running a straight razor down the side of another's face while she's screaming to be "entertaining." this was one of the two things in this movie that "got" to me. Initially, it's just twentysomething prostitutes but near the end, he starts murdering young children as well. mostly because of who the victim becomes. the murders are RELATIVELY subdued (it's all very graphic and nasty), but as the movie goes on, things get more and more queasy. In AMERICAN PSYCHO, the murders started off being infrequent and as the book progressed, they got much more numerous and twisted. Take all the graphic murders from that book, string them together one after another, and you basically have this.Įven the structure of the movie is similar to Ellis' book.
To attempt to describe how the experience of watching this all plays out, I point to Ellis' AMERICAN PSYCHO novel. The only thing in it that vaguely resembles a "story" is a young girl who is concerned for her sister, who is dating said psychopath (I don't believe we ever find out his name).
MURDER-SET-PIECES is about a German photographer who picks up hookers, rapes them, and then kills them. it was the first NC-17 rated movie I ever saw in the theaters (I missed John Waters' film a while back), and it's certainly one of the most violent films I've ever seen. This film was a bit of a milestone for me. SOME SPOILERS, ALTHOUGH BEING THAT THE FILM BASICALLY HAS NO PLOT, SAID SPOILERS ARE BASICALLY JUST DESCRIPTIONS OF SCATTERED IMAGES AND SCENES* I've tried to be as thorough as possible.
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