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Driving home from an alcohol-heavy party, Eddy (Matt Daciw) runs over sisters Abby (Kristen Kaster) and Sarah (Darcie Kaster), which is bad enouch, but wha´s even worse is, after the fact he actively kills Sarah, just to avoid trouble, and he probably would have killed Abby as well had he known she was still alive. Of course, she survived though and identified him as her sister's killer, but then again Eddy's rich and cop Gerry (James Fler) is on his payroll, who sees to it that Eddy has an alibi for the night in question. And then Eddy is killed. This is much to the distress of his sister Caterina (Sasha Ormond), who calls in their estranged brother Luca (Matther Ninaber), an investigative journalist, to, well, investigate. So Luca does an extensive interview with Abby, and what he learns about his family doing so doesn't exactly fill him with pride. Thing is, during the time he conducts several interviews with Abby, a masked killer in a biker outfit goes around killing all those involved with the accident/murder, and it's only a matter of time when whoever-it-is will catch up with Luca, too ...

Now quite obviously, Death Cycle takes more than just a few hints from 1970s giallo cinema, from the masked killer to the quite bloody murders, from the killer's over-elaborate motives to the film's story that manages to be simplistic and convoluted at the same time. That said though, Death Cycle does by no means feel like a copycat movie as it puts all these elements into its own context and puts its focus more into sharp dialobues and character-driven storytelling rather than specatle, to make this one a truly worthwhile genre ride.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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