So, I was scanning the isles of my local music/book/movie store on Friday and something caught my eye.  It was this smokin’ hot chick in a bikini top, short shorts and flip flops, you know, the really thick kind that are somehow more sexy that just regular flip flops.  I should have left the store then knowing nothing would top that, but since I didn’t I ended up buying the inspiration for my next review: “Murder Set Pieces”.

I got it really for one reason only, for the gore.  According to the jacket, Hustler Magazine called this movie “the most graphic horror film ever committed to celluloid”.  I figured if Hustler says it’s gory, well it’s gotta be good.  “Nothing shocks those guys”,  I figured. So I bought it, picked up some beer at the liquor store and got ready for my evening.

Okay.  Hmmm.  Where to start?  Alright, start with 5 beers, and the name of this movie: “Murder Set Pieces”.  The only thing more strange and mysterious than the name is the plot, or perhaps I should say the lack of one, but here’s how it went:

This big sweaty German guy is a photographer who seems to have some sort of a connection with Nazi Germany, either his grandfather or somebody in his family was a big shot Nazi.  This never really enters in to the “plot” but it comes up a lot for no particular reason. Anyway he sets up photo shoots with various Vegas type sluts at his house and then kills them.  Just does.  No reason, or at least no reason we’re aware of.  The End.

Alright, there’s a little more to it than that but that’s the gist of it.

He has a girlfriend who he just met and she has a little sister who is the only one who seems to figure out that this guy is not “all there”.  Incidentally, the girl who I’d guess was about 12, gives the best performance of the film, this includes Tony Todd of “Candyman” fame.  Todd plays an adult bookstore owner who gets all upset when our man, played by Sven Garrett, asks him for a snuff film. I’m still trying to figure out what this scene had to do with the movie, unless it was to show that the photographer was a freak, and I think we pretty much had that figured in the first ten minutes of the film, but whatever.  This is the last we see of Todd.  So he kills some more chicks, the little girl is still trying to convince her sis that his guy is bad news, and of course no one believes her.  I must have gone to the bathroom or fell asleep or something because I’m not sure what happened but, the girl ends up at this guys house downstairs in the “killing room”.  She runs out of the house, cut to interior of a bus.  So, SPOILER BE DAMNED!  Our boy makes it out of Vegas, strikes up a BRIEF conversation with Cerina Vincent from “It Waits” and “Cabin Fever”. The End.

WHEW!  What a ride!  Ok it wasn’t so bad but it wasn’t as gory as they said it would be, lots of blood splatter but that’s about it, and there was some good nudity (hey, it’s Vegas, of course there’s nudity).  But again, that whole plot thing just wasn’t really there for me.

Final count:
5 pre-movie beers
5 during show beers