GamerTab
That was an excellent one.
Titreenp
SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?
Breakinger
A Brilliant Conflict
Brendon Jones
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
Michael Ledo
Pretty women are being killed by being stabbed in their softest part. Repeat often. I had no idea what the story was about until I listened to the director's commentary. A town consists of ugly men and pretty women who want nothing to do with the guys so they turn to each other. That is pretty much it. One guy takes it personal. A lot of nudity including "tonsils." The killing/penetration scenes were not well done.The film is in Polish with English subtitles...while the "making of" segments are all in English including the director's commentary. You might as well watch the film with the director's commentary "on" as it is in Polish and you can read the subs while he is talking, letting you know what the heck is going on. The girls in the film are basically all "dimes." They came from strip joints. Sort of like a European Bill Zebub production except the girls are not from Jersey strip joints. Enjoy the difference.The film is soft-core porn. It is sleazy. The real title in "Fantom Kiler" with one "L." It is still pronounced "killer." This is all explained in the director's commentary during the credit run. I did like listening to "The Carpenters" in "the making of" segment while a large nude blonde was getting stabbed in the "tonsils." We've only just begun.6 stars for the nudity and no other reason. They made 2 sequels.
BA_Harrison
Horror and sex have always gone hand in hand with each other, but rarely does a film combine these two elements so blatantly as in Fantom Kiler, a British made movie hiding behind a fake Polish identity. Reputedly made by UK horror aficionado Trevor Barley (under the pseudonym Roman Nowicki), filmed in Poland, and starring a bevy of beautiful silicone enhanced strumpets (most likely Euro-porn-stars), this film is part giallo, part soft-core porn, part misogynistic slasher and part comedy.The Fantom Kiler of the title is a mysterious mask-wearing psycho who is stalking and carving up hot nubile women, who prefers to attack his victims in a sexually violent manner. This generally means that he likes to get them butt nekkid first, and then proceed to stick sharp objects up their 'holiest of holies'.With more bare top-quality female flesh on display than you can shake a stick at, and plenty of nasty killings (although, surprisingly, very little in the way of graphic gore), Fantom Kiler is a pretty poor film technically, but quite entertaining for fans of sleaze and exploitation.Shot using digital cameras on rather cheap-looking sets (swathed in coloured light and smoke to give a suitably tacky vibe), this movie is hard to find offensive since all involved are obviously having a blast making it. There are several silly 'comical' interludes which break up the intensely violent scenes (including one humdinger which offers up a bizarre twist on the legend of Excalibur) and the whole affair is so OTT that one would have to be a real stick-in-the-mud to get in a lather about it.
slake09
I can't imagine what the other reviewers were thinking. They're knocking a movie that is so very obviously meant to be violent porn, as if they were deceived by the cover showing a knife wielding slasher about to tear up a naked surgically-enhanced bimbo. Do you always look for nudity and cutlery on the covers of movies where you expect to see high drama? If you're looking for naked Polish chicks, not just naked but spread-eagled and panting naked, then this is it. If you want a little humor and a bit of slashing thrown in, hey, this movie has it. Let's not pretend we were expecting something else, you're not fooling anyone that way.In it's own way, this movie has flashes of genius. The scene where the athletic contest is all about a janitor attempting to pull a wooden spoon from the hindquarters of a naked woman. That's not an event you'll see on the Summer Olympics! He only has one minute, will be get that spoon out? You have to wonder.All the girls in this movie are naked, and that's a recommendation all by itself, to me anyway. I make no bones about it, when I'm watching a movie with a lurid cover like this I'm expecting to see some naked girls, and this film delivered. Who are these guys who pick up a movie like this and get offended by naked women? Who are these guys who get offended by naked women, period? Methinks thou doth protest too much.There is some serious wit at work here, too. The excuses for girls to strip down are so transparent, so utterly without basis, that you just have to admire it. I only wish that I, a poor pretender to such genius, could come up with such obvious and successful reasons for women to disrobe. I bow before the director who accomplishes this and makes it look easy.Is it degrading to women? Only if you want it to be. The women in this movie are so definitely having a good time, and so obviously enjoying their power to make men slobber and act like fools, that a good argument could be made that it's degrading to men. Don't bother arguing with me, though, because I like a little degradation. I'm proud to slobber foolishly at the altar of female beauty.Jess Franco made pretty much the same movie, many times, and he is acknowledged to be a great film maker. I submit that Trevor Barley/Roman Nowicki is just as good, if not better. Fantom Kiler is certainly more coherent and better filmed than many of Franco's movies, if lacking the abundant charms of Lina Romay.So if you're looking for a slasher flick with explicit nudity and some humorous situations, grab onto this, you won't be sorry.
Seth_Gecko35
I'm really not too sure if all of the hype and carry on about this movie is worth the energy. Previous reviews and comments I have read elsewhere claim this film is disturbing and degrading to women.To me it wasn't quite hardcore porn, but then again a little more than softcore.OK, yeah sure there were naked women getting killed, some quite explicitly, but why cant people see this movie for what it is. B grade underground porn with the intent to shock. Obviously someone has wanted to take a step away from the normalties of regular porn, and try to get a controversial reputation. He's also gone for the artistic approach, but that is more annoying that interesting. Also the picture on DVD goes from wide screen to full screen, to blurry etc, and the subtitles have a tendancy to disappear below the screen or inside the movie, also, the fonts are prone to change, and I've heard that the whole thing was made in England, dubbed (very poorly apparently) into Polish, and then given english subtitles.The money I paid to see this movie probably cost more than what it cost to make it, so I guess I'm the sucker.Part 2 is pretty much the same, though I think the director may have broken up with his girlfriend before making this one, because the dialogue is pretty resentful toward women.All in all, dont expect much here, at best The Fantom Kiler trilogy are movies most suited to sitting around with the boys, some drinks, and having a laugh. Serious horror fans will hate them, and the raincoat brigade will want more.