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."
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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. The BBFC stated they rejected the film because of sexual violence, and the film was potentially breaking UK obscenity laws.
The film was submitted for release in the United Kingdom to the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) who refused to give the film an '18' certificate, therefore making the film illegal to supply within the UK. The uncut DVD version runs at 91 minutes, whereas the 'R' rated version runs at 83 minutes.
A DVD director's uncut-version of the exploitation film was released after its theatrical run. Murder-Set-Pieces was released by Universal Pictures in Spain, The Weinstein Company in Sweden, 20th Century Fox in France, and Anchor Bay Entertainment in Russia. Most of the cuts were to obtain the 'R' rating and removed several intense scenes of sexualized violence and torture, however, some scenes were also removed by the director himself which he intended to edit out of the film before going into theaters but never got the chance. In comparison with the theatrical cut of the film, the 'R' rated DVD version was missing approximately 17 minutes. Murder-Set-Pieces was picked up by Lionsgate, who released the film with an 'R' rating on DVD. It was released to select theaters with an NC-17 rating and was also shown as a double feature alongside with David DeFalco's Chaos. By night he rapes, tortures and murders prostitutes. This American film deals with the activities of a wealthy immigrant serial killer a German photographer, who leads a double life: by day he shoots erotic photos.