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Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders (2006)
This was the worst "serial killer" flick ever!
I have read the books and case studies on the Hillside Stranglers and this film has little to nothing to do with the true events. How can they even call this a "serial killer" film and not show any (oh, OK part of one) of the killings? The rating hypes up violence and there really is not any in this piece of crap. This "film" is so pathetic it's like some kind of soft-core, made for cable fake porn. If all I wanted to see was naked broads, I would rent a real porn. Where is the killing? Where is the blood and carnage promised on the box? There's no amount of c-level actress t&a that could save this waste of celluloid. Real fans of violent, exploitive cinema beware: This movie blow's it big time. Save your money and avoid this crappy flick.
August Underground's Mordum (2003)
I am certified as "mentally disturbed" but this...
Like many to post before me have said, "if your reading this than you already know what kind of film this is", but no review can really prepare you for what this movie has in store. I am a court certified 730 case (not sane person)who has spent many a night alone watching the greats like "Last House on the Left", "Last House on Dead End Street", "I Spit on Your Grave", "The Prowler" etc. and trust me: Those films are comedies compared to this.
I told a friend about "Mordum" and though I had not yet seen it, I knew when I finally got my hands on it this would be the one person I would want to watch this with. Having already seen AU, we thought we were ready for anything. I put on "TRACES OF DEATH 4" just to get amped up for Mordum but little did I know that not even my most prized "TRACES" box set could not prepare me for this. I started the film.
Just 15 minutes into MORDUM, my friend and I were looking at each other as if we had gotten stopped by the cops or something. Apprehensive but still steady, we pushed on.
As time slowly crept by, we were becoming detached from reality, truly absorbed by the carnage we were seeing. A man cuts of his own penis for god sake! Sex with a hole in a corpse! Now, not so steady, we paused it.
1 shot of Crown Royal, 1 Heineken chaser were ready. Push play.
Like the film never stopped, I am ripped away from home and back in that messed up house with those wackos; watching and waiting to see what could possibly top what just happened. Steady and strong we pushed on.
Wait...Is he doing what I think he's doing? Is that a dead kid in the tub with him? We paused it again. Now I am really disturbed. How did they get away with this? I have to know. Push play. A maggot covered dead baby in a trash can, this is crazy! More killing and finally it is over.
"Shell Shocked" is the closest term I have for the feeling I was left with after viewing this film. I thought I had seen and imagined it all. I even entertained the notion that I was evil. This film broke me. I had finally found something that shook my sensibilities. I realized that under all the scarred, twisted parts of my mind, I am not evil. People, who in real life, do the things depicted in this movie are evil. This movie cannot be overlooked. I think all horror-snuff-core fans should see this at least once. You may learn something about yourself, and what is and is not evil. We as mere viewers of entertainment, no matter how sick and twisted the material, have nothing on the real maniac serial murderers of this world. AWESOME EXPERIENCE, but be warned: this one will leave you feeling a bit grimy and it WILL seer itself into your memory for a very long time. 10 out of 10 stars.