ASouthernHorrorFan The synopsis is this:In a big American city, the serial killer The Picasso Killer is terrorizing the dwellers and the police department does not have lead to find him. The bartender Christie Wallace dreams on moving to the countryside with her six year-old daughter Zoe to have a peaceful life far from the violence of the city. Late night of Christmas Eve, Christie leaves the Tides Bar where she works and walks back home. In an alley, she sees a woman dying covered on blood and The Picasso Killer sees Christie and chases her. She runs to a commercial building where the night watchman Wade is reluctant to open the door and does not give credit to Christie. She calls the police and Detectives Stefan Kerchek and Lawrence Kellog attend the call. When Christie tells that she can recognize the infamous serial-killer, there is a blackout, the phones are dead and the detectives cannot call the precinct. They lock the building waiting for reinforcement but sooner they find that The Picasso Killer has broken in the building and their lives are in danger.The other night I could not get sleepy! No matter how many boring infomercials I watched or sedatives I took I just could not get my mind and eyes to the point of groggy. Luckily I pay a ridiculous price for cable and receive on demand as well for over exaggerated premium channels. The one upside to these little additives of life are the off chance that something I have not seen may cross by the screen. Well lo and behold finely after what seemed like hours of surfing I found something that intrigued me. "Fall Down Dead" – a movie about a serial killer who found artistic vision in carving and displaying beautiful women in an attempt to create his masterpiece and life's achievement.I only recognized one person in this film- well two actually. David Carradine and Udo Kier. Now Udo is like awesome to me because he played my all time favorite vamp in Andy Warhol's "Dracula". I can still close my eyes and see him fall to the floor jerking and writhing while trying to lick up virgin blood from the floor of a french château.This film – "Fall Down Dead" was actually pretty good. The characters were not exaggerated nor over written. Sometimes they can come off cartoonish or not so believable. David Carradine did somewhat but luckily his characters presence was short. The heroin played by Dominique Araine, who is a single mother living with her young daughter and a female roommate accidentally walks up on one of the Picasso Killers scenes while he is still doing his thing. He immediately sees her as the woman of his true inspiration and chases her into an office building during the city's rolling blackouts. She has it rough! First a bum she gives coffee too because it is Christmas Eve and she fills sorry for him tries to steal her purse after she gets off work then a serial killer takes a liking to her and hunts her down.Now this would make a perfect Christmas film for future holidays because it does happen on Christmas Eve. Anyway, lady has to fight for her life because the killer gets into the building with her, two cops that were supposed to be on a drug bust but decided to call it a night when the call came in about a killing, the security guard played by Carradine-who is like the worlds oldest slacker rent a cop, and three employees of the buildings business.So one by one the killer without much ado or dialog takes out the sheeple . The deaths are gory and in your face. The Picasso Killer is only artistic when it comes to his muses in this pic. The others just get slash-o-rama treatment familiar in any horror film. This film is a great slasher and serial killer style flick reminiscent of many 80's styled films like "New York Ripper". This film is a good thriller based film with descent acting and slasher styled gore so I say watch it and enjoy!

Woodyanders Christmas Eve. Spunky single mother Christie Wallace (a sturdy and appealing performance by Dominique Swain) witnesses a brutal slaying in a back alley by The Picasso Killer (ably played with smooth menace by the ever-reliable Udo Kier), a vicious psycho with a nasty penchant for carving up beautiful young women. Christie and a small group of strangers find themselves trapped in an office building with the wacko following a citywide blackout. Director Jon Keeyes, working from a compact script by Roy Sallows, relates the compelling story at a snappy pace, builds a reasonable amount of tension, delivers a pleasing plenitude of grotesque bloody violence, draws the main characters with some depth, and tosses in some tasty gratuitous female nudity and a little soft-core sex for trashy good measure. The sound acting from the capable cast keeps the picture on track: Mehmet Gunsur as the burnt-out Detective Stefan Kercheck, R. Keith Davis as Kercheck's easygoing partner Detective Lawrence Kellog, Monica Dean as scared religious cleaning lady Helen Ritter, and Austin James as cowardly yuppie Michael Yaeger. David Carradine has a colorful and amusing secondary part as bumbling fuddy dud security guard Wade Douglas. But it's the always welcome and delightfully quirky presence of Kier as an extremely suave, relentless, and arrogant maniac who fancies himself as a kind of demented artist that makes this movie so much fun to watch; Udo's a real hoot as he calmly bumps folks off and serenely taunts Christie by promising to make her his greatest artistic masterpiece. Richard Clabaugh's glossy cinematography makes neat use of shadowy lighting. Pinar Toprak's rattling score hits the spirited shivery spot. A hugely enjoyable slasher thriller.

votr69 I can't believe David Carradine agreed to participate on this movie. It is the worst thing I've watched since somebody lent me "Today you Die" with fat,out of shape Steven Seagal. The beginning is catchy but, after the first 10 minutes there is no mystery what so ever. The cops are very pathetic and the killer is not a believable character. It looks like if at the end the makers of the film were trying to add something interesting and dramatic but, instead added more flaws to the whole production. It is a slow pace movie. I'm sure that the original idea was good but the producers couldn't find the way to make it leave a nice impression on the audience. I was so annoyed by the fact that I had wasted my time watching this movie that I joined this website so, I could let it out.

charmlovers Though I would not classify this movie as a classic thriller, I can say wow, I really liked it.A horror movie is supposed to scare, terrify, and make your skin crawl...and Fall Down Dead delivers. Domonique Swain was awesome as she always is and I look forward to seeing more from her. And whoever Lexi DiBenedetto is playing Zoe Wallace, she certainly has the looks for the big screen, and by judging her several lines in this movie certainly has what it takes to deliver on larger roles. It will be interesting to see if she takes part in future films.Overall a great ride and well worth my dollars for the entertainment this film delivered!!!