MURDER-SET-PIECES

MURDER-SET-PIECES (Director's Cut)
By Larra

“Jack the Ripper-style killer plagues Las Vegas”

With a headline like that, who wouldn’t read the paper? The sad truth is that there would never be a headline like that. Unnamed women are being brutally murdered on a daily basis, but due to the fact that this is a tourist town, they are swept under the rug and no one hears about them. Even the children who are killed are kept “under-wraps” in order not to take away from the swarms of tourists who are traveling with their children. This film really makes you think twice if you are a parent; do you monitor your children as well as you should? It also gives you a little something to chew on if you are a young beauty looking for that ‘big-break’ in the ‘city of lights’.

We deal with crimes against children and women through the news or on T.V. shows but are never subject to its brutality; here it is literally forced down your throat. Along with the reality that society is spiraling downward, but we don’t want to hear or deal with those issues. We’d rather deny it and change the channel. This film takes the real issues that society wants to keep ‘hush-hush’ and slaps you in the face with them.

Vicious, brutal and wicked beyond belief, Murder-Set-Pieces takes an unedited look at the life of a modern-day Jack the Ripper. Stalking the streets of seedy Las Vegas, “The Photographer” (Sven Garrett) is constantly on the hunt for a new subject to photograph. Too bad he has a terrible hatred of women! Ranting in German as he rapes, tortures and kills his victims, this misogynistic Nazi believes that his female victims are the “biggest part of the world’s problems”. With flashbacks to his youth and lines like; “I am the bastard son of a goddamn whore” we can get an idea as to what is going on in the twisted mind of this no-name killer.

Nick Palumbo along with Toe-Tag Pictures phenomenal effects creates a horror dream-team! I would love to take stills from this movie, frame them and hang them on my wall. The set design and visuals were awesome! Disturbingly-fascinating imagery, extreme violence and very real, very intense subject matter push boundaries and break down barricades in the mainstream as well as individual taste. We all have seen ‘spots’ about violence towards children, i.e.; rape, murder, etc. but Nick Palumbo takes it a step further into a reality that no director has dared to expose on the screen. This may make you ill, it may even give you nightmares, but the images will be forever etched in your mind.

I am all for the pushing-of-the-envelope but must admit that this one actually got to me, especially the weight-bench scene….. You gotta give it up to Destiny St. Claire as well as Sven; I can still hear the screams in my head…… That was just intense!

With cameos featuring some of horrors greatest; Gunnar Hansen, Tony Todd and Ed Neal, we need more films like this. Edgy as well as very daring, some of the scenes are unbelievably disturbing but quite necessary to get the point across. You most likely will be offended by this film, but it will also make you think and think and think again.