Bela Kiss: Prologue (2013)

Bela Kiss was a Hungarian serial killer who murdered and pickled the bodies of about 23 women around the early 1900s. He was captured after barrels of alcohol containing the remains of strangled ladies were found on his property, but he managed to escape and ultimately got away, never to be officially punished for his crimes. I was definitely into checking out a movie based on Kiss' sadistic antics, but alas, "Bela Kiss: Prologue" is just a mess with a misleading title.

Set presumably in present day, some young bank robbers hole up in a ritzy hotel. Some shit happens involving one of the guys cheating on his frigid girlfriend with the slutty concierge and we get random flashbacks giving a vague rundown of Kiss' life. The movie sloppily culminates into a confused, "Hostel"-influenced ending...

That synopsis isn't as abridged as it may seem. Very little happens in this movie and the relevance of the World War I serial killer to the overall premise is virtually nonexistent. I honestly had no idea who the bald, crazy-eyed butcher was that was introduced around the last third of the film's run-time, nor did I know how it related to the butler... This movie is just a clumsy pile of shit. It's actually shot well, though, and there's one decent kill early on, but that's all the positive I can scrounge up for this one. And - "prologue"? I don't get why that was included in the title.