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Director:

Ulli Lommel

Writers:

Jeff Frentzen (writer)
Ulli Lommel (writer)

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Release Date:

October 2006 (Australia) more

Genre:

Thriller

User Comments:

Breaks through to uncharted horror movie territory more (3 total)


Cast

  (Credited cast)
Jeff Frentzen ... Billy (as Curtis Graan)
Jillian Swanson ... Monique

Heidi Rhodes ... Annie
Kate Hackett ... Kim
Anjeanette Stairs ... Wendy
Lauren Kruskall ... Cara
Jill Pennington ... Julia
Jill Pennington ... Julia
Frank Godek ... Darryl
Marilyn Cortez ... Carla
Victoria Holland ... Ann
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Alexandra Dumas ... Mother
Samuel Dumas ... Son

Carsten Frank ... Father
Danielle Hafey ... Sarah
Richy Holmes
Christian McDath ... Robin
Sarah Munster
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Additional Details

MPAA:

Rated R for strong aberrant violence/gore, sexual content, drug use and language.

Runtime:

USA:85 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:MA | USA:R


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Loosely based upon Robert Pickton, a Canadian pig farmer who murdered several women during the late 90's and fed their remains to his pigs. more

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Black Dahlia (2006) (V) more


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6 out of 21 people found the following comment useful.
Breaks through to uncharted horror movie territory, 12 August 2005
8/10
Author: Bob Carr from United States

Robert Pickton, the infamous Canadian pig farmer who killed Vancouver prostitutes and ground them into hamburger, gets an interesting and very different - but very well-done - low-budget horror movie treatment from iconic thriller director Ulli Lommel. The bloody details of Pickton's treatment of his female victims is eschewed in favor of a carefully designed character study of the serial killer. The sadistic suspense and horror scenes are there, and the actors perform well, but the movie's design is new and different, signaling, at times, a fresh update of the "cult of personality" horror tale. This type of story was best represented by Robert Aldrich, Curtis Harrington, and Alfred Hitchcock in numerous classic thrillers, especially in the Aldrich films, "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" and "Hugh Hush Sweet Charlotte" - two films that capitalized on characters caught in a way of life and attitude that brings on horror and tragedy - and Hitchcock's "Psycho." The cult of personality movie places character and motivation at the center of the horror, and does not allow more clichéd shocker elements (unwarranted or intrusive gore and sex, for example) to set the tone. Under these conditions, the Pickton movie relies heavily upon characterization to make its points. Curtis Graan as the Pickton character underplays the man's insanity and contrasts his violent tendencies with what comes off as a "pleasant" serial killer personality. It is a characterization that mixes two notions of the classic movie psychopath -- the renegade, out-of-control maniac and the soft-spoken Norman Bates type. The combination is frightening and creepy but, also, makes something interesting out of Pickton's motivations. This point is made in the final sequences of the movie, in which the Pickton character suddenly recognizes his lost humanity. As a true-crime vehicle, this movie is not a clinical recap of Pickton's murder spree. Instead, it dwells on the *why* of a man who would put himself through the ordeal of murdering dozens of women. The movie's theme centers on a horrible killer who, in the end, just cannot successfully embrace or love anything or anyone (in an early scene, his attempts to hug one of his victims is reduced to a pathetic mauling). Throughout this film, Lommel rewrites the rules of the cult-of-personality horror movie; replacing, for example, expository dialogs with strictly visual interpretations of how this killer's mind works. It is a remarkable effort, brought down slightly by a sparse budget and the occasional poor reading. Lommel, a long-time director of thrillers who has recently "returned to life" in a series of interesting horror movies, has with co-writer Jeff Frentzen decorated a somewhat slight true-crime-type thriller with an uncommon depth. Overall, the film seems willing to point a way out for horror movies, which are currently stuck in a terrible trend of rehashing 1970s motifs and remaking old-fashioned plots. It defies the trends. There are no black-eyed ghosts, no elaborately staged human dissections, no noisy cannibals on a rampage, just the inscrutable face of Graan as an ultimately sad character, unconnected to his own humanity, locked in a Hell of his own design.

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