Official Score = 1 1/2 Devils[/caption]Written by: Richard Fire (The Borrower), John McNaughton (Wild Things) & Directed by: John McNaughton. Starring: Michael Rooker (Jumper), Tracy Arnold (The Shot) & Tom Towles (Night Of The Living Dead)
This bizarre tale is a story about two friends... And their mutual interest in murdering people... You see Henry (Rooker) and Otis (Towles) , who met while they were in prison, and when they got out, they found a tiny little hovel of a small apartment building and ended up moving in together.
During this time, Otis is trying to stay about as clean as possible (despite the fact that he is a degenerate of the worst kind,) and Henry is sort of a handy man about time... That is about to change when Otis's sister, 'Becky', (Arnold) comes to town to stay with her brother after the damage that was caused on her by her husband...
Now what she doesn't know, and what neither Henry or Otis will come to expect, is that after a short period of time of weird domestic bliss, they will start down a road that none of them ever expected, and some may not survive from!
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This strange family and their bizarre domestic bliss...[/caption]On the plus side, I suspect that this movie was in some capacity the inspiration for Rob Zombie's, House Of 1,000 Corpses (2003).
Also I think that this movie may have been the inspiration for people to start making movies based on the events of real serial killers.
In the end though, as a movie, this movie was bland and predictable (about the only thing from the movie stand point is what I mentioned above, as well as the fact that being a fan of Michael Rooker, I found seeing him in one of his earliest roles was quite cool!)
As a movie based on a true life serial killer, the movie was disjointed, and sorely lacking cohesion in showing the darker side of the crimes that this guy committed!
In truth, this is not one of the better horror movies I have seen that are based on true events, and unless you have the patients to wait till it starts getting good (which it does toward the end of the movie... A little to late to really make anything of it), than this movie probably is not the movie for you!
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