jonm11100 This movie had so much potential for gore fans but the story itself was not thought out very well....the acting is bad and the editing is even WORSE.....the sequence of events is IMPOSSIBLE to figure out.....it seems as though all of the scenes were just thrown together at random....one of the worst made movies i've ever seen....one minute its day time....then its night...then day again...you never can tell which day or night you are watching.....if it wasn't for the shock value, i would not own this movie.....it would take too long to type out all the stupidity in this movie...but at least it does have "controversy" going for it..and the director's cut is rare,so......

Scarecrow-88 A German erotic photographer (who seems to supplement his income more as a fashion photographer) in Vegas moonlights as a warped-and-twisted psycho, targeting primarily strippers and call girls, bringing them to his kill room for further torture and mutilation. His grandfather was a Nazi, and Sven has a photograph with him congregating with Hitler. What Sven doesn't realize is that the gal he's currently involved with has a resourceful, untrustworthy, inquisitive little sister who thinks he is something sinister.Nick Palumbo's bloodthirsty serial killer thriller significantly follows Sven as he prowls Vegas for victims. He isn't above self-promotion (he would tell anyone about this film that would listen) as Sven goes into an adult book/movie/novelty store looking for a snuff film called "The Nutbag". Also, Palumbo loves littering his film with past horror actors fans might be familiar with (Gunnar Hansen as a neo Nazi gun-selling dirtbag, Tony Todd as the clerk of the aforementioned adult store who wants a different form of employ, Cerina Vincent as a hot gal Sven meets on a greyhound, and Edwin Neal as a motorist warning the little heroine not to hitch-hike (haha)). Depending upon which version you watch (I rented the R-rated 83 minute version), this film will either disappoint or enrich (if you love extreme violence, the version I watched will do the former; I have read the NC-17 theatrical version is quite a nasty piece of work). Sven is a muscled, woman-hating monster with dreams of a woman he later finds dead perhaps the catalyst in the killer he'd become. The bloody kill room, with all the cameras, tools of destruction, freezer, skulls, chains, anatomy charts, etc, is quite an unsettling sight. This, with Sven often in his car or on foot in Vegas, has a repetitive nature to it that rather dulled me into complacency at times. His obsession with the little girl heroine, remaining in his car looking at her from a distance or photographing her is quite a disturbing component to the film as well. How Palumbo involves the girl in some dark subject matter might make many a viewer (it did me) a bit queasy.

manuelasaez Having searched for this movie for well over 6 hours, I finally found it nestled amongst the annals of many of the world's most reviled films. Reading the description, and how the film was banned in multiple countries and was deemed an "atrocity of human decency", I knew this was exactly the type of movie I wanted to watch. Once it started, I quickly realized that it wasn't the content of the film that made it disturbing, but the fact that someone actually got it financed. The acting was embarrassingly bad, the dialog even worse, and nothing about this film left any kind of impression on me, least of all fear. It did have great special effects, and the blood was extremely realistic, but when that is the only redeemable quality of the film, you know you have hit a dead end in cinema. This movie is one of those films that deserves to be banned because of how horrible in quality it is; it was written & directed by people whose sole purpose was to shock and disturb, and still managed to f$%k that up. Do yourself the favor and watch some French Extreme horror and forget this trash was made. There are plenty of movies out there that are infinitely more deserving of your valuable time.

KBambrick Murder Set Pieces is regarded as a twisted, sick, ultra violent and sadistic movie and rightly so. The problem is the production, acting and lack of emotion make it look like the director was just trying to see how much he could get away with and forgot to include a good story line to go with it. Sure there are some genuinely disturbing scenes but all the performances seemed devoid of emotion or even interest (Tony Todd looking at you).Its hard to find any positive points to this movie. Sure it pulls no punches when it comes to graphic depiction of violence but is that really enough to satisfy a viewer (i hope not). To conclude if you feel inclined to watch a degrading, nasty movie this might be for you, however i seriously doubt you will enjoy it.