BOOOOOOORING! This is a movie for psychos, because no regular person could sit through this dull,
annoying movie and enjoy it. Not much happens in this film, so please excuse the brevity of this review.
Needles to say, I didn't like it.
The film begins with a guy taking a piss. His name is Brandon and he films everything on his old 8mm
black and white camera...but wait! He is obviously using a regular video camera, so why did the
filmmakers decide to screw with the image and make it all grainy and scratchy like old film? Did they
think that would make it look more authentic? It's just stupid, and the same minds behind that kind of
thinking have produced the lamest, most boring film of this year or any year for that matter! Oh, right, let
me get to the plot.
Brandon, the clean-cut killer, picks up an 18-year old girl named Stacy. She was waiting for her ride,
but decided to jump into this stranger's car for no reason at all. By the way, if she was waiting for a ride,
where'd it go? Why didn't they call her cell phone or something? Anyhoo, he takes her back to his motel
room and she sits on the edge of his bed. They proceed to bore the fuck out of me as they talk about
her life, about the heights of different actors, porn movie renting, home movies, and whole bunch of
other random, phony garbage. Little by little (and I stress LITTLE BY LITTLE) he seduces her out of her
clothes. A bit more convincing happens and she gives him a BJ and then they have sex and then he
suffocates her with a pillow. But she survives so he proceeds to punch her to death. Then he gets
dressed and drinks some water and leaves. Oh, yeah and I forgot to mention that they intercut footage
of him screwing some blond girl for some reason I have yet to decipher. The fucking end!
This is a bad movie, plain and simple. Boring (I can't say it enough), lazy (come on guys, scratchy
black and white video???), uninteresting (write some better dialog next time, it was all too phony and
awkward), and showed a lot more penis than I wanted to see, which is always none. The screen was
black or undecipherable half of the time, the sound was terrible, and it looked as amateurish as amateur
home video can look. I should know, I shot an amateurish-looking home video movie. Ever heard of a
little something called The Monster Man? Probably not. I hate to be a dick about it, but this was just
awful and painful to sit through.
At the end we are told that Brandon rented movies all over the US and replaced them with his videos.
Man, if I were unlucky enough to rent this instead of Beverly Hills Cop 2, I would be more pissed that I
wasted my time than disgusted by the video. It also goes on to tell us that he has yet to be caught and is
on the top ten most wanted lists in 7 states. He has yet to be caught? You know what he looks like! Why
can't you find him? And if this is an authentic snuff film, why does it have credits and an artsy opening?
Stuff like this, and the idiotic, cheap scratchy film thing that I keep harping on about make the movie look
dumb and combine that with some powerful, earth-shattering boredom and you've got a recipe for
disaster. There is nothing harrowing or chilling happening here. Your time would be better spent
watching Silence of the Lambs again.
| - Jose Prendes |
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