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(review is based on UNCUT version of film) The Mutilator (1985)

Admit it everyone has at least one flick that they consider a "Guilty Pleasure" right? A movie that you just really enjoy watching regardless of it's many technical shortcomings,wooden acting and sophmoric direction. C'mon just be honest with the Butcher...you know you have one.

Of course for those unfamiliar with the term a "Guilty Pleasure" flick is the kind of movie that for the most part gargles an immense amount of nutsac yet for some reason unknown to modern science is strangely compelling based on it's ability to ooze E.V (Entertainment Value) from every pore. Basically just a fun movie you know what I'm saying? For me The Mutilator is just such a movie and friends of the website feel free to assume that this flick is indeed more fun than a pre-paid hotel room with a fully stocked mini-bar, a team of hookers,a vat of whipped cream and a juggling midget... take my word for it.

Now I know there are those of you out there who consider E.V to be low on the totem pole of movie importance and I know that right now you're rolling your fucking eyes at the mere mention of this movies title. Of course I also know that you pathetic schelps are in dire need of some LIGHTEN THE FUCK UP pills not to mention sunlight,gainful employment and signifigant others who don't need to be inflated but that's beside the point...where was I? Oh yes I was mid-rant...

Here's the deal Slasher fans, not every single flick out there has to be Sundance Film Festival savvy to be a good time,come to think of it most Sundance Film Festival flicks gorge on cock so why would one want a film to be that savvy anyway?Ahh, but once again I digress like a bi-polar six year old trying to tell a joke.... So anyway, unfortunately there are people who,for whatever reason, are unable to screen movies such as The Mutilator which are highly derivative of most everything that came before them,have actors who couldn't get work on Public Access television, and for the most part doesn't add a single,solitary new idea to our beloved sub-genre without seeing it for what it is a nice little slasher flick that is just...SO DAMN FUN TO WATCH!!

It's people like this who make it hard to be a Slasher fan, so damn serious all the time. They're SLASHER flicks for the crying out loud,what exactly are you expecting? I mean everything had been done by the time this flick came out not to mention variations of theme is the bedrock on which the entire sub-genre rests. My advice is to go back to your Community College film class,take your fucking seat and resume boring the teacher with your insistence on using words like NARRATIVE and PLOT DEVICE and spare me your... FUCKING YAMMERING!! For I have an entertaining little Slasher flick to drop some plot synopsis on...

Our story opens on some hick broad baking a cake for her hubby Ed's birthday suaree. We can gleen from the painfully synthed music that she loves the big galoot and that this scene was intended to be much more touching than it actually ended up being. Meanwhile,in an adjacent room young Ed Jr has decided that he's going to clean all of Pa's shotguns as a Birthday gift. Outstanding,irresponsible use of firearms by a nine year old what a good idea. Of course we all know that nothing good can come of this and predictably the youngin ends up farting around with a sawed off. Suddenly... BLAUUUUWW... the gun goes off and we see Mom taking a round in the lower back,falling to the floor in a heap,and bleeding like a stuck pig effectively ending the touching birthday scene.

Right at that moment Dad is seen returning from his hunting trip through the open kitchen door. Confronted with his wife's lifeless stiff laying prone on the linoleum Ed Sr jumps immediately to the conclusion that the damn youngin is to blame (side note: his assumption may or may not have had a basis in fact but this little plot element is left un-explored either that or he is just a mean old fuck who hates his own child) and begins threatening bodily harm upon the boy with a pointy instrument of death who flees the scene leaving Ed,his dead wife and a bottle of Ol 'Grandad to contemplate happier times.

Directed by
Buddy Cooper

Staring
Matt Mitler , Ruth Martinez , Bill Hitchcock , Connie Rogers

Rating (1 - 4 star)

Runtime
86 minutes