Killing Spree (1987)

"Killing Spree" is a slightly above average SOV cheapie. Of course, this opinion I have is based on my own personal standards regarding these types of (usually) godawful, turd movies (i.e. "The Bloody Video Horror That Made Me Puke on My Aunt Gertrude" and the virtually unwatchable "Violent Shit" films), so I'm just trying to be as fair as possible and give credit where it's due. It's one of the better of its kind that I've come across, while still suffering from some of the same expected pitfalls that movies of this ilk tend to.

A newly wed airplane mechanic with a recent, drastic pay cut begins to suspect his wife of cheating on him with the slew of handymen that seem to be showing up at his house lately while he's at work. Detailed sexual escapades are discovered, penned in a diary, hidden in their bedroom, so he totally goes off the deep end and does the only thing a potentially scorned man CAN do: get all these guys to come back to the house when wifey isn't home and murder them in creative ways.

There's quite a bit of comedy thrown into this one, which I expected - much of which didn't quite 'land' for me - although I did enjoy the odd 'giving head' dream sequence. Some of the murder gags, however, were okay; such as the machete ceiling fan and a guy being beaten to death with his girlfriend's severed head (accompanied by yet another reference to 'giving head'...). Not to mention a decent chainsaw disembowelment/intestinal electrocution... Yeah. So, while being watchable enough and fairly well shot for such a micro-budget production, "Killing Spree" suffers from being a bit overly long and drawn out in too many, much too obviously padded - as well as repetitive - scenes. If you have any kind of tolerance for ultra-low brow, SOV flicks, you could definitely do a lot worse than this one, honestly.