The Mutilation Man

USA 2010
produced by
Derek Cole, Shane Cole, Jon Gale (co), Stephen Twardokus (co) for CRC Digital Entertainment, Masked Films
directed by Shane Cole, Derek Cole
starring Stephen Twardokus, Sabrina Carmichael, Jon Gale, Jamie Seibert, Ed Cole, Denise Gossett, Paul Zurcher, Shane Cole, Derek Cole, Richard Loiwe, Russ Kobrin, Sean Hughes, Anthony J.Rickert-Epstein, Chase Zenter, Taylor Zenter, Casey Delich, Shelly Cole, Jessica Lowe, Meg Lynn, Steven Cole
story by Derek Cole, Shane Cole, screenplay by Derek Cole, music by H. Anton Riehl, digital effects by Keith Dennis

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Roy (Stephen Twardokus) and Jessica (Sabrina Carmichael) have a wonderful anniversary together, which ends with them having beautiful sex ... and on the next morning, they find themselves tied to chairs in their garage. A masked man with a toolbox is keeping them company, and the fact that he's masked, doesn't say a word, and his toolbox contains many sharp tools isn't exactly a good omen, is it?

At first though, the masked man isn't really doing anything, he even leaves Roy and Jessica alone in the garage for longer stretches of time, during which they make several (futile) escape attempts. When the masked man finds out though, he strikes back with a vengeance, like screwing both of Roy's legs to a piece of wood, or cutting some skin out of Jessica's face, or cutting a piece out of hter leg and forcing Roy to eat it.

At some point, Roy's colleague Ted (Ed Cole) drops by, but he is killed by the masked man before he can even begin to grasp what's going on.

Finally, the masked man reveals his identity: He's Malcolm Hayes, the younger brother Roy and some friends killed in a drunken accident 15 years ago, and now he wants revenge ...

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Nice low budget thriller that finds just about the right balance between suspense and ultra-violence, that does its best to stay away from genre formulas, and that does feature a bunch of interesting characters for a change (anything but a given in genre filmmaking).

On the downside of course, the film is almost free atmosphere that transcends pure tension and suspense, but given its very tight, well-paced script, that's only a minor concern.

Pretty nice, actually!

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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