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- In 1988, Chris Bryson was found running down a Kansas City street naked, beaten, and bloody wearing nothing but a dog collar and a leash. He told police about Bob Berdella, a local business man and how Berdella had caputed him, held him hostage, raped him, tortured him, and photographed him over several days. Police later arrested Berdella and searched his mid-town Kansas City home where they found several hundred polaroid photographs, a detailed torture log, envelopes of human teeth and a human skull. It was soon discovered that Berdella had murdered six young men in his home after drugging them and performing his sick acts of sexual torture. He met a couple of the victims at his business, a small shop called "Bob's Bizaare Bazaar" where he sold artifacts from around the world related to the darker side of human nature for people with jaded tastes.Some lived the horrors for only a few days, one for six weeks. After death, Berdella would cut up the bodies with an electric chain saw and a bone knife, place the body parts in empty dog food bags, put them into large trash bags setting them out for trash collection on Monday. It is believed that Berdella used specific organs of the victims as meat in several food dishes he would serve at his shop, although he denied this until the apprehension of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer one year later.
- The film is the story of HENRY FLOYD BROWN, a man who grew up living in a cave in Northern Arkansas and was incarcerated beginning at age 14 for 54 years in 17 different penal institutions including Alcatraz. He is best known in the Kansas City area for robbing the Metcalf State Bank which lead to a Western Style gunfight at the Heatherwood Apartment Complex where he killed a law enforcement officer and was seriously injured himself. Brown was next in line to be hanged at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas after Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Smith who brutally murdered the Clutter family of Holcomb Kansas becoming the subjects of IN COLD BLOOD written by Truman Capote. Brown was also a member of a revolutionary group that stockpiled money from robberies to purchase weapons and ammunition for a future revolution. Historian Michael Helm has joined the film as has retired officer Harley Sparks who shot Brown following the robbery of the Metcalf State Bank on January 19, 1968. Also on board is Joe Vader, Brown's attorney. BROWN was spared and became an activist for prisoners and their rights as he was transferred to and from various penal institutions. Years later when he was transferred back to prison in LANSING he was allowed to enroll at ST. MARY'S COLLEGE in LEAVENWORTH KANSAS where he earned a degree in BEHAVIOR SCIENCE and graduated VALEDICTORIAN in 1991. He resides in Grandview, Missouri at the age of 86. He is a model citizen.
- Brakhage: The Final Word is a vital short documentary. Not long before his passing, the grandfather of experimental film, Stan Brakhage, (recently celebrated with the Criterion Collection DVD By Brakhage), sat down with director Benjamin Meade and camera man Bill Pryor to discuss his life, his longings, and the state of film in America. Edited with expressionist breaks that emulate the late filmmaker's aesthetic, Brakhage: The Final Word captures the congenial master for the final time on camera.