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 AMATEUR
PORN STAR KILLER (Alter
Ego Cinema) 71 minutes. Found footage/documentary style.
Not Rated. Nudity and some very hard to see sex. Seems there’s
this guy who whacks Amateur porn stars, but when the cops start getting
nosy, he turns to picking up chicks in the streets to get his jollies.
Now this sounded pretty good and I liked
that the box comes with a crumpled tissue and a condom.
I felt like I was in true exploitation land.
Even the fact that the box was ripped off from a Blockbuster made
it seem funny. Then I
remembered I’d seen the name Alter Ego Cinema before, when watched the
short, Mouse Trap Delivery.
I hated that movie! But,
I like to treat every film on its own merits.
I’m happy to say that after watching Amateur
Porn Star Killer, I actually appreciate Mouse
Trap Delivery more. Let’s
run down the list of atrocities, shall we? First, at the end of the film
we are informed that this is actual videotape from the killer, but they
ran it through some kind of computer program to give it the grainy,
speckled rough film look. Why
would you do that if it’s supposed to be videotape? Second, if it is
some sort of ‘found’ footage, then why is there some picture in
picture shots of a guy and girl banging away at each other in soft-core
style? There is only one guy in the flick and he’s holding the camera,
for the most part, on an uncomfortable, bad looking young lady (not the
women on the cover). The
lighting is horrid and the picture itself is unwatchable.
At a running time of 71 minutes the boredom started to seep in
after 5 minutes. That’s a
lot of movie left to have to be bored through. Alright, I do admit that I
did see what appeared to be a few moments of a badly lit blowjob, but so
what. I can go rent The Brown Bunny and see Chloe Sevigny do that and actually be able
to see it! This is micro budget film making at its lowest point ever.
I think that by Amateur Porn Star Killer being made, there is now some cinematic
black hole that has been created and will start to suck the life out of
low budget film making as we know it.
Maybe you can tell, I
didn’t like this movie. -
Douglas A. Waltz
Editor's note: I liked this movie a bit more than Doug. The grubby
looking female lead (part of her character, not calling Michiko Jimenez a
grub) turned me on for some reason.
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