Rating: R
Genre:
Crime
Release Date: 08/10/1999
Dubbed: English
Run Time: 85 Minutes
Flags: Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: Rhino Home Video
This mix of
drama, camp, and brutal violence is anchored by the performance of
Nicholas Worth.
Worth plays
Kurt Smith, a sweaty, balding maniac who strangles women with a stocking, raping and mutilating them during and after death. A Vietnam veteran,
Smith prowls the streets of Hollywood posing as a photographer, then sells his violent porn to sleazy smut-peddler
Sam (
Porky's star
Chuck Mitchell). At home,
Smith lifts weights and tells off his dead father, whose abuse was obviously one cause of his mania. Sometimes he calls the radio show of psychiatrist
Lindsey Gale (
Flo Gerrish), posing as a Puerto Rican named Ramon and asking for advice about his headaches. Dedicated cop
McCabe (
James Westmoreland) has no luck solving the case until
Smith murders one of
Dr. Gale's patients, in an unforgivably sick scene. The patient (
Paula Warner) was molested by her father, which
Smith overhears. When he breaks into her house that night,
Smith ties her up while cooing, "Daddy loves his little girl," and pouring hot wax on her as she cries into her teddy-bear.
~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
;)
