Knock Off Movies: Nightkiller

Released in Italy as Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3, this movie is way closer to a Nightmare on Elm Street rip off. This movie was also written and directed by the man responsible for Troll 2, a movie with zero trolls in it, so that alone could explain the odd miss-titling.

The plot unfolds something like this: A woman is attacked in her home by an intruder wearing a grotesque mask. The intruder torments the woman and attempts to kill her, but she manages to escape. She is promptly admitted to a hospital, but quickly released and is instantly kidnapped by another tormentor. This time her attacker has her trapped in his basement, and escape seems impossible...

The killer in his mask.

Full spoiler plot summation: [Serious spoilers, if you intend to sit through this torture-porn, then don't read this section as it spoils the "redeeming" payoff.] The woman's second tormentor turns out to be her husband who was working with her doctor and the police to get her to remember more about her initial assault. But since the audience is never told that incredibly important information, this seemed like a really twisted torture-porn where, ten mins before it ends, we find out this lady's own husband was inflicting horrible amounts psychological torture just to jog her memory for some bit of information that I guess the police needed.

We were talking a lot...: Maybe we talked over all the key duologue in this movie, but if it was that easy for us to miss, there honestly wasn't enough of it to convey the plot points. Usually if we talk over a movie, one of us will catch the key bits, especially when there's four of us watching, but we were all equally aghast at the final scene.

Reasons you should watch: I mean, I want someone else to watch this just to tell me if we missed some key duologue, but it's pretty rapey so keep that in mind before diving in.