Best movie of this year hands down!
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... View MoreIf you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
... View MoreThese are disturbing movies (in a good way). The first is better in the way that originals usually are: small, innovative and original.ASPK2 is good. Ryan has come a long way in marrying visuals and audio (I've seen his early work), and the flashbacks and broader scope of Brandon works well here.I wasn't completely sure the sex was real in the first film. I heard it was, thought I saw things... and in this one there is no denying it. I literally almost puked when Brandon continues to rape the girl after she's dead (complete with genital close ups). This fact is what knocks these movies down for me. Telling an engaging story, masterfully pulling you into what often seems real, while making strong social comments only to undermine it all with real sex? Aside from boosting DVD sales, I don't see the point. The real sex cheapens everything.The girl's hair could've been covering what was seen while her head bobbed; angles and thrusts could've replaced penetration shots. The fact you made these choices makes me question your motivation and in the least blurs (if not obliterates) what you're trying to say.I don't have a problem with a movie about a serial killer videoing how he humiliates, rapes and murders young women. I enjoy the approach and the presentation is wonderful. I just see no need for real sex.Shane, these are decent movies (minus real sex), and you've shown yourself to be a talented filmmaker... you're better than you are allowing yourself to be.Despite this and my deep-rooted objection to your choice for real sex, I am glad to see a fellow UGF person from back in the day doing well. I just hope that in the future you challenge yourself by not taking such a low road (not in the subject matter or story, but choices like sex).If it wasn't a smut film pretending to be a snuff film, I'd give it 7.
... View MoreThe movie is kind of hard to watch, not necessarily because of the x-rated content, but because the shaky hand-cam and odd conversations that don't seem to go anywhere.I could do without the hardcore pornography, watching the director get a blowjob and penetrating the female kind of ruined the whole 'film' aspect and steered it towards simulated rape porn. That being said, the acting was pretty good, very believable.The black and white grainy look works well, with the exception of the few scenes with camera effects which get annoying. The music is good, and accompanies the movie well.Overall, the film works pretty well but anticlimactic at the end, worth watching if you're interested in seeing violent rape/abuse, I probably wouldn't see #3 unless some changes were made. Particularly, I wished there was more to the main 'hand-cam' part of the movie, with makes up about 95% of the movie.Main complaint is the porn aspect, not necessary and took away from the film, maybe an excuse for the director to get his dick on screen, who knows, I'd rather watch porn.
... View MoreIf you're looking for the worst "movie" ever made, look no further- this is it. And I suspect part I is just as bad or worse. This movie comes in two DVD versions, the "movie" version and the "snuff" version. The snuff version is the straight forward dirtier version. The movie version has some extraneous material. Both are equally bad. And both have XXX material in there so why there are two versions makes no sense. This thing looks like some guy and his girlfriend decided to film some abuse tape on their VGA cell phone camera, complete with cheesy cell phone coloring effects. The guy who supposedly is some deviant rapist killer picks up a girl at a donut shop, talks her into having sex, takes her to a room, there's some stupid back and forth talk that goes on forever, they start having sex, he gets rough and rougher, she leaves, he talks her into coming back, they go back at it and he chokes her to death. That's it. And trust me, it sounds far more interesting than it is. The movie version has a lot of text flashing on the screen about the killers past and how dangerous he is; the intro is of someone filming girls' behinds at a beach. This is filmed hand-held point-of-view so what you get to see is mostly the girls face and they guy's arm pulling her hair and pushing her around, while he improvises some lame porn-tape dialogue. How a distributor picks up stuff like this is a mystery. There is nothing in here worth seeing, not a single minute. This isn't horror, or scary, or twisted or perverse, ground-braking, or shocking. It's just mind-numbingly dumb.
... View MoreThis isn't normally my kind of movie I'm not big on skin or slasher flicks... Amateur Porn Star Killer 2 isn't either it's a disturbingly well done faux snuff film. It's probably the most twisted movie I've ever seen. It's so straight forward, so simple, so wrong. It won't make you jump out of your skin but it will make you wonder about the kind of world we live in. The movie is basically straight from the home videos of a psychopath. Except that every few minutes we get a flash back into the fates of previous victims. I the only thing I was disappointed at was the end wasn't as brutal as I expected it would be. I guess that's pretty messed up... Twisted.
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