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Not to be confused with the Mare Winningham T.V. movie of the same title, this is probably the rarest and most unseen direct-to-video B-movie gore-fest ever made. I have no recollection as to where I obtained it, and there is hardly any information about it on the Internet including E-bay and Amazon which has just about everything! It is said to also go by the title "Mangled Alive", but if you come across a copy of this on cable or at a flea-market, consider yourself lucky.

Only late-night B-horror/gore fans will appreciate the decent make-up effects and good performance from Blake Bahner as a charming and confident photographer/serial killer who just happens to be a direct descendant of Jack The Ripper. He likes to take pictures of the people he murders in articulate ways such as; decapitation, circular saw, electrocution, acid...etc., and believes that drinking their blood provides him with his sexual appetite. He's looking for the perfect woman to bear his offspring, but soon his mistakes may consequent in a lethal dose of his own medicine in what is undoubtedly a stomach-turning climax.

This has everything you can expect from a cheap and gory sleaze-fest. The bloody murders, lame dialog, moronic bimbos and soft-core sex is abundant, and Bahner provides an in-movie narration that gives it an amusing quality. Fans of insomniac trash flicks will get their kicks, everyone else should certainly stay clear.

Gorehounds will be well sated by the amount of bloodshed on display in FATAL EXPOSURE (1989), a very low budget indie horror flick about a fashion photographer called Jack T. Rippington (yes, really!) who turns out to be the great grandson of none other than Jack the Ripper, destined to carry on his ancestor's crimes and constantly drinking an elixir made from the blood of his own victims to boot.

This is essentially an '80s version of a H. G. Lewis movie with no discernable plot, character or acting talent. It starts off with a naked girl being chased through the woods and goes on to offer death by electrocution, circular saw dismemberment and various acidic demises. Nasty stuff indeed, and needless to say totally ridiculous and unbelievable, but if you want gore for gore's sake then you've come to the right place!