A
disturbed painter named Richard Streeb
(Mony Damensky) creates macabre paintings
which creates a huge sensation. Then one
dark night someone is dressed in black
and kills him or so people might think to
give Richard a taste of his own medicine.
Suddenly
Richard's body has vanished and everyone
is labeled a suspect including his
estranged brother Bill (Joe Zaso) as he
investigates the unsolved murderer while
having an affair with his sister in law
Gloria (Liz Haverty).
Bill
encounters a bunch of perverts,
prostitutes and psychopaths and even gets
drugged at a cafe then has a bizarre
nightmare.
Eventually
Bill does meet up with the killer as the
killer has slaughtered many other
suspects but it's not what Bill thinks.
At first this film
looks terrible but it gets a bit better.
Made on a film budget mostly but however
the editing is a little uneven with the
audio and such but this film was trying
to be a take on those Italian horror
flicks.
A neat artsy slasher flick that carries
on the tradition of other slasher films
but in a different way. However, it does
lack a bit but not too much.
The acting is at
times uneven and sometimes passable but
the audio was terribly dubbed on the
actors in this film as it almost looked
like a foreign film dubbed in english but
these are really the actors voices.
Lead
actress Liz Haverty seems to do
well with her character by showing good
emotions to her role as the wife of a
murdered man and wants to find out who
killed him.
Joe Zaso is great too as the
brother of the victim showing good
expressions, intensity and anger to his
role.
Xavier Domingo
pulls off his character well too as a
detective making his character look
fairly good.
Supporting actor Mony Damevsky
seems to stand out well playing someone
almost insane as the husband supposedly
killed.
Lynn Macri really needed
improvement as the lesbian maid in the
film but she still had some interesting
and dark moments to her role.
Supporting actress Gina Colin makes
her character truly mysterious too in the
film as a possible suspect.
A lady is taking a
shower full nude before she gets kills
during the opening of this film.
There is a sex scene between Joe Zaso
and Liz Haverty's characters.
A guys face is
eaten alive by pirahna's.
A guy gets stabbed in the neck with a
sharp metal object which is a little
graphic and during a dream sequence.
A man's chest is cut open and a person
takes out his heart which is wrapped
around a picture if a painting.
The directing by
Joseph F. Parda could've been better
as it needed alot of polishing but it
wasn't terrible.
The beginning of the film looked
pointless and extremely bland with a
murderous scene in the shower
Also there's an art museum scene as it
looks way too acted out of course this is
due to bad dubbing.
There is a great shot on Liz Haverty
when she looks shocked and falls to the
ground when Mony Damevsky is
murdered which looks effective with the
camera shot on him.
There's a nice and fairly strong dialogue
between Haverty and Xavier
Domingo about the questioning on the
murder case.
He does show a nice scene with Zaso
and Haverty together outside in
a patio near a forest.
A dialogue between Zaso and
supporting actor Lon Waterford
looked quite corny in a study mansion
when Zaso's character tries to
get information from him.
We see a very twisted moment with Zaso
when he is in a cafe and a strange
poetry is happening there and then goes
into a hallucination as there's colorful
effects to the picture when this happens
which looks well don but extremely
strange.
Next there's a mysterious and gothic like
dialogue between Zaso and
supporting actress Gina Colin giving
the film a nice little touch as Parda
makes it look good in every way.
There's perfect camera shots on Zaso
and Haverty performing a sex
scene together as well and makes sure
that Zaso shows good freaked out
reactions afterwards.
There's a moment in the film when we see
supporting actress Lynn Macri trying
to come on strong with Haverty's
character trying to sedice her. Although
Haverty does well with the direction
trying to stop her from doing this, Macri
however lacks a bit trying to be
obsessive with her.
Zaso and Haverty do a fine
dialogue as well towards the ending along
with Damevsky as it's probably
ther best in the film that unravels the
mystery in the plot as they all make it
look good as well as great camera shots
on each of them when they talk.
Also in the film Parda shows
some good camera shots on some artsy
moments with actresses taking off their
clothes wearing lingere's about to act
kinky as well as great shots on the
killer coming in to murder his victim's.
The music was
composed by Jerry Djerassi whom
at first is rather boring with the piano
playing during the beginning of the film
when a lady is taking a shower and then
murdered but he really improves
especially during the other murders along
with some icy synthesizer playing too
making it a horror effective sound to the
picture.
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