The tagline tells the truth: this movie was made with the mindset of "cheesy killer flick." That is exactly what you get.

Some of the scenes are actually quite gruesome...the movie really only cheats once with a death by not showing anything, everything else is shown. Decapitations (which is hilarious, so obviously a mannequin), people getting chainsawed in half (and showing it), plus the ending which shows the results of the killer's "work" are all right there in front of you.

A lot of the characters are pretty brain dead, however. The girl that goes swimming in the middle of the night and basically lets the killer catch her with a net, the cop that gives all his undercover agents' identities away in 2 seconds...just dumb.

Speaking of dumb...the super secret last second ending makes no sense. Did the killer come back to attack the guy and squeeze his balls off? Was it the "creation?" Why did it squeeze his balls off? What is going on?

The movie actually has a pretty strong anti-porn message. The kid in the beginning is shown using a pornographic puzzle, and later he comes to have a distorted image of women which makes him kill them and try and recreate the puzzle with body parts. So, with no other context besides the mom being crazy and possibly damaging him, we are left to assume the movie is telling us the puzzle distorted his mind when it came to women.

Is this why the creation comes back to squeeze the guy's balls (if it is the creation that does it, I can't tell!)? Is it getting revenge back at men for being so misused? Is the creation speaking for all women? Am I looking way too deep into this?

There are some other good points to the flick: aside from the hardcore gore, the movie tries to emulate fear by showing things like a woman peeing herself as the killer plows through a bathroom stall with the chainsaw. Another thing it does is blatantly rip off the "Halloween" motif of Mike Myers breathing. Since this killer wears a mask, too, it makes sense that he would breathe hard, but we all know where that came from, come on.

Another thing I thought was funny was how easily the characters get over seeing such brutal murders. One scene they witness a girl chopped in half (someone they knew!), blood all over the bathroom...the next scene? They're casually flirting with each other like nothing happened. Some pretty tough cats right there!

I give it some pretty high points; at no point does it try to be something it isn't, and for what it's worth, it accomplishes the task of being a cheesy-killer-on-the-rampage-flick. I recommend picking it up for at least a solid rental, possibly a purchase if you are so inclined.

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