It’s a mockumentary/ found footage/ torture porn trifecta! Neat! Edward Carver (carver, get it?) is a serial killer in Poughkeepsie, NY (because honestly what else is there to do in Poughkeepsie?) who leaves behind a massive cache of homemade snuff porn tapes. Police and other officials talk to the TV crew about the case in between intermittent pretend-fuzzy VHS scenes of some sex and violence of an abducted lady dressed like a Renfaire wench while the killer himself is dressed like a character from the Comedia del Arte.
NERD!!!!!
Also mixed in for fun is a seemingly unrelated scene of a pre-victim being made to sit on a balloon until it pops. “POP IT!” he screams, “POP THE BALLOON!” I’m guessing somewhere there is a hardcore balloon fetish community on a Reddit adding this movie to their list of sexy mainstream balloon pop scenes in non-porn films… and by “Guessing” I actually mean “Hoping.” I’m hoping there’s a Redit out there lauding this movie not for its shock factor but for its balloon sex content.
Spoiler alert, however – you don’t get the “pop” until nearly the end of the movie. Seriously – you have to sit through a good 70 minutes of lame boring slasher torture cop drama found film blood and gore bullshit to get that smoking hot balloon pop money scene!
I’m not sure if I like this one or not. It’s so-so. It has its moments. It’s (insert your own non-commital declaration of mediocrity here).