Director: Scott A. Martin
Cast: Scott A. Martin, Ron Burgher, Greg Mason, Jim Meredith
Hurt is a profoundly disquieting take on the serial killer theme in a style evocative of Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer. Hurt focuses on Michael and his two friends Bernie and Joe who get young women to make pornographic films for them and then kill them on camera. From this point the trio become intoxicated not only by the sense of power, of deciding who lives and who dies, but also by their sense of artistry as film makers. They begin to view their "work" as having artistic validity and like all artists then want recognition for their work. Michael makes contact with an ambitious TV reporter and gives him tapes of their victims. As the death scenes play, Michael's interview overlays the harrowing imagery so the viewer is drawn deeper into the motivation and mindset of the serial killer who kills "because I can".
'Low budget serial killer film about Michael (played by the films own director Scott A. Martin who looks something like a cross between Ron Jeremy or Ricky Gervais) he plays a nasty crazed home movie loving oddball who goes from filming cheap porn films with his seedy buddies to becoming a rapist then killer. The film uses the now over used idea of self filmed videos to piece together the tale. Michael gets together a small band of local creeps to film what he calls his 'Basement Video' porn tapes. Only the sex starts to become secondary to the thrill of how he and his crackpot chums treat the women. It's not long before just a few slaps and degrading verbal assaults sway towards actually killing the females, and then on to other victims. He then sends the tapes to a local TV station claiming to have killed more than 47 people. The films not got the style of Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer or the extreme gore of the August Underground trilogy, instead it plays almost like a sick perverse version of Trailer Park Boys minus the comedy. I stuck with it more out of curiosity than out of enjoyment just to see if it got bloody towards the end sadly it didn't. Scott A. Martin has a face that would fit comedy more than horror and maybe if this film had more humour I could recommend it more, sad as it is only really recommended to people who like amateur naked females having sex with wheelchair bound retards or fat hairy roadie looking guys.'
(3½ out of 10)
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