• Straight to Video
• Director: Tim Ritter
• Written by: Tim Ritter
• Running Time: 88 minutes
• Language: English
• MPAA Rating:
• Cast: Asbestos Felt, Courtney Lercara, Raymond Carbone, Bruce Paquette, Joel D. Wynkoop

Here is some more ranty ramblings from the past. This review was written quite a few years ago for my soon to be defunct (thanks to yahoo/geocities) Underground Video and Cult Horror Films page. It was written on a holiday Monday after an all-nighter at the local Drive-In. I'd slept through most of the movies, so I was awake wanting to watch some movies, while the rest of the family slept all day.

I've always loved the Drive-In but somewhere down the line things went awry!
It musta happened when I was in the back seat with .... well you know who you were.

Anyway, what happened was somewhere, somehow, inperceptably Drive-Ins started to suck. Now they are not sucking in the extreme like network television. The experience of cramming the family/friends/favourite girl/not so favourite girl but she's easy in the vehicle and watching a double feature, while eating chilli dogs at intermission is still there. But what is really sucking is the movies. The B-movies of yesteryear are gone...now I gotta watch the God-awful crap they turn out in the Mainstream.

Still, like a junkie to heroin, I have to go to the drive-in. And I got to tell you after seeing (or dozing through) such epics in banality as DR. DOOLITTLE (I liked 'blaxploitation' when they were still violent), FAST AND THE FURIOUS (shh..but I kinda liked this one, I was bored of Point Break anyway), SCARY MOVIE 2 (I haven't seen Scary Movie 1 yet, and I don't think I ever will now) and, well, I'm not even going to mention that Hugh Grant thing (and not just because I forget what it was called), I NEED some B-movie Independant type stuff to watch...

So using a very scientific method (putting a bag over my head and spinning three times and feeling around the room for videos), I chose 5 movies for a marathon watch. Two out of 5 movies were made by TIM RITTER. Could this be mere co-incidence, or was God trying to tell me to do a review about a Tim Ritter?? I don't know , but I'm not taking any chances of pissing off God, he all ready fucks with me enough....

So I picked my favorite Tim Ritter flick KILLING SPREE!

OK, so without giving too much away, cause I think the cool plot twist is what made me really like this flick, this guy with an awesome looking wife is stuck in a bit of a financial bind (aren't we all) and so is forced to work a lot of hours (tell me about it). Sounds like a shitty kind of rut to be in (and believe me it is), but things get worse. He finds a diary type notebook of his wife's, and in it, it descibes how she is ballin' everyone from his boss to the yard-boy.

Well rather than just confront his wife, he makes the mistake all us guys do, and starts killing all the basterds that are nailing his wife. And then it starts to get a little gory. And by-the-Sweet-Jesus, it gets gorier! Really, really Gory!

It starts kind of a like Shakespearian-like tragedy really, with a hero with great potential only with a fatal flaw (jumping to conclusions). BUT, like other Tim Ritter movies I've seen, it seems to start really-plot oriented, but as the gore factor builds up, the story goes out the window and anything goes. I cannot help but wonder if it is intentional or if it just works out that way. It's almost surreal the way anything can happen, really hoppy-cool like actually, and did I mention there are Zombies in this one....in fact, even though you would never guess from the first half of this movie, this one ends in a gory zombie filled bloodbath.

Sure there are a few far fetched or weak plot points, like I'm not really sure what makes the dead come back (but the dead DO come back for revenge...it's a horror staple). So if you are looking for something serious in your horror, maybe this is not for you. This is more of a fun movie. The splatter gore filled kind of fun. There are some pretty interesting and inventive death sequences involving such things as lawnmowers and chainsaws and a ceiling fan with machete blades.


AND check this out.... You can get it at Amazon for less than $20

I spent a helluva lot more than that last night going to the Drive-In.

So Kiddies, what have we learned??

HOLLYWOOD = recycled formulaic crap

INDIE MOVIES = a decent chance for something original, and besides it's easier to kiss your girl when she is turning her head from the screen in fear or disgust....

also

TIM RITTER = cool Indie Horror Splatter flicks

COST OF FAMILY/DATES/FRIENDS/HITCHHIKER GOING TO DRIVE-IN = cost of a couple indie videos, a pizza, and a six-pack...