Review

If Slaughter isn't the most inept piece of shit made to exploit people's fantasies about rape, murder and, most importantly, snuff movies, then, by golly, we don't know what the shit this world is coming to. Maybe, they do things a little differently in England, but, 'round these parts, if someone delivers you a snuff video and the killer doesn't even bother to strip the clothes off of the victims, then some motherfuckers are gonna be demanding their money back.

That's right, this shit is pretty much nudity free. See, if we tell you there's a scene in this hunk of puke where the main killer and some random dude who's working with, stab this porn actress in the pussy with a knife, then that's gonna appeal to you, right? But, if we tell you that during the entire prolonged rape and murder of this chick, the most skin we get to see from her is her belly button and the knife looks pretty goddamn rubbery even while obscurred by the horrible quality video and lighting, then you just lost your boner didn't you. Yeah, that's how this movie rolls. On top of the completely inept rape and murder scenes (who hires a couple of whores to get it on and then doesn't even have them take their bras and panties off while they do it in front of you), the lead hipstery looking main killer dude's motivations are never clear. Sometimes, he's making his snuff videos for a faceless dude who barks orders at him like he's auditioning to play the voice of "stereoptypical British criminal" in a cartoon based on a Guy Ritchie knock-off. Sometimes, he's working with this prostitute (who, again, DOES NOT GET NAKED) and sometimes he's just setting up his camera on a tripod in the woods and then tackling someone as they walk by and then flailing his arms around as if he's beating them to death.

Please don't take this review as the prudish reaction of someone who's appalled by pseudo-snuff. Hey, if you like to watch women get raped and murdered on camera, then we're sure as shit glad, you've got that pseudo there to keep it wholesome.. or at least legal. But, if you're gonna make pseudo-snuff, at least make an attempt to do it well... or at least mediocrely. This pile of dog feces (actually we've seen piles of dog feces that are both more well-crafted and more erotic than this movie, but you know what we mean) hides behind its whole pseudo-snuff angle - using it as an apology for the terrible production values and awful camera angles... a tactic we've seen work, at least to some extent, before. In this case, it doesn't even come close to a legitimate excuse.

To say we hated this movie is an understatement. It is poorly shot, poorly acted and doesn't even deliver on 1/10th of its exploitative promise. Slaughter is an embarrassment to pseudo-snuff, DIY horror movies and serial rapists. You've been warned.

 -- Rick Stanko

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