Thus we come to the first of what I assumed would be multiple of these- a film where I think...this got labeled a Video Nasty? Why?
Also known as Week of the Killer and The Apartment On The 13th Floor.
Yeah I mean, first the name is misleading. There is a scene where our main character is eating soup with human meat in it unbeknownst to him, and he specifically stops when he discovers this. He is not a cannibal by any real choice.
Marcos is a hapless man in a plot which I think is pretty brilliant, a man forced through almost comedic circumstances to become a serial killer. It begins with a man assaulting his wife, and Marcus killing him on accident. Then the wife wants to tell the police, so kill her, then the people who come poking into his life after the two disappearances preceding. He gets rid of the bodies by taking them to his meat processing plant where he adds them to the sausage. With basically no crazy blood or nudity, one does have to wonder about the labeling and prosecution this one got.
The most interesting aspect to this for me was that it was directed by a gay man, and there are absolutely homosexual undertones to a lot of what happened in this flick. And you know what? I'll say it, it was hot as fuck. Dude, I wanted these guys to go at it, show nudity, have them touching each other cocks, FUCK! Get me all riled up over here...
This is a original movie with a great premise, its maybe a tad slow and/or long, but its not that bad by any means. Its very much of its era, and the dubbing and the production all feel very enjoyable in the B grade, trying for A grade sorta way. It has some decent kills and its almost kinda sorta a proto-slasher, giallo leaning in some ways, but wholly original as well.
Nast-ometer: 0/10
Argument for or against Video Nasties: Against.
I give it a 4!
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