THE BIZARRE CASE OF THE ELECTRIC CORD STRANGLER

Staring
Misty Mundae
Bill Hellfire
Joey Smack

This is an absolutely terrifying movie. Not because of the content, or that someone actually made it. No, it's the very thought that some people get off by watching young girls get strangled with electrical cords.

Hey, to each their own. What you do in the privacy of your own bedroom is your business. I'll do my best not to judge anyone, but I've got to seriously re-evaluate my friendships with anyone who finds pleasure in something like this.

What you get is Bill Hellfire strangling his real life girlfriend, Misty Mundae, with any electrical cord he finds lying around her apartment. This isn't the kind of 30-second strangulation scene you're going to find in a mob movie. No, "Boom, badda-bing. You're dead," in this puppy. These scenes are drawn out for 15-20 minutes a pop.

Poor Misty just lies on the floor, buck naked, and used as dolphin-flogging-fodder for the sexually deviant. Just when Bill has the already cocked-out Misty on the edge of consciousness, he allows her just enough air to keep her alive for another round. It was agonizing to watch. And damn, I couldn't take my eyes off it.

The events, as perverse as they were, worked as an allegory for sexual oppression. Bill Hellfire, using the tools of his trade, to steal the very life-force from womankind. The master manipulators, that comprise the male sex, allow women just enough security in life, love, and work, to effectively cripple them once the rug is pulled from beneath their feet.

Yes, I'm reaching. Good Lord am I reaching…

Again, I don't support this kind of filmmaking, mainly because I can't understand the NEED for it to be made. Then again, I don't condemn this kind of filmmaker either. If some poor schmuck found himself with an urge to give the Boston Strangler a fun for him money, I would rather he work his frustrations out with a copy of THE BIZARRE CASE OF THE ELECTRIC CORD STRANGLER, than with his hands round the neck of a nurse or a college co-ed.

EI Cinema
Alternative Cinema
Factory 2000

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