For starters, I unfortunately watched the Lions Gate R-rated cut of the film. AVOID AVOID AVOID Only see it if you MUST fulfill a list of shock films, but then only to note how poor is in comparison to the rest of the field.Before I even get into this review, I need to point out two things about the film at hand. I cannot say too many times how much of a waste of time and red dye this film is. Shock lovers and gore hounds, prepare for disappointment, as this garbage is not in the same league as most of the video nasty 'banned' faux-snuff favorites. This is worth seeing to remind one to treasure the great films that are out there by showing the utter crap in comparison.

I'm not even going to go into how lame it is to throw around Nazi familial connections and serial killer flashbacks to a childhood of mother hatred. The film layers on bad horror cliches like an overstuffed sub sandwhich within two seconds of each other, the killer brandishes a chainsaw and the protagonist gets a butcher knife for defense.

The majority of props are very weak in terms of appearing real or showing originality the one exception is a Jack-in-the-Box of a skull which contains a miniature of the killer in it.Īnd this script, more holes than swiss cheese! This killer would have been caught several times over by the end of the film he is a sloppy killer AND he shots someone in an occupied and no doubt video-monitored adult bookstore (which by the way happens because of an utterly badly placed sudden armed robbery). The blood coloring is off and different in every scene the splatters are utterly without the logic of physics and more than gratuitous. On top of that, it's not even thoughtful gore.

It's all intentional shock and no genuine scare. I only believe there was a person on set, one Nick Palumbo, who called himself a director, but didn't actually bother directing anything other than stock body parts and corn syrup. It's written without any regard for form, story, originality, or genuine talent for horror. It's edited like someone with severe memory loss and acute ADHD did it. I don't even know where to being with my laundry list of complaints. It's not shocking, but I for one would ban or not process this film because of how absolutely poorly made it is. This 'movie' promotes itself for being shocking, banned in the UK, and refused for processing by three film developing studios.

Murder set pieces 2004