CineBad!!!

This film wasn’t actually as bad as it came across. In fact, I think it could have been really suspenseful and intriguing had the filmmakers had enough of a budget to hire a decent screenwriter, use good lighting and good quality film, and hired actors with real Scottish accents. The low budget, I think, caused the makers to say to themselves, “hmm. We can’t make a Hollywood blockbuster… let’s make it artsy.” However, this was probably an afterthought. Fully nude female corpses and dizzily shaky camera work does not an art film make.

The plot was sort of interesting– it’s a murder-mystery. James McGregor, a prematurely retired cop (Sheen,) must track down a serial killer who keeps implicating the cop in murders. Before he kills someone, the murderer faxes James the future-deceased’s obituary. This all takes place in Glasgow, although due to the cast’s really bad approximations of Scottish accents, it’s difficult to tell this for the first few scenes.

There were other plot details that were fun to pick on. For example, the killer’s calling card is that he leaves his bodies naked in public places. How does one get a nude corpse into a public place without being noticed? Why does the bum who got fired from the funeral home hang out in front of it all day? Why doesn’t he just get another job? And if the funeral home owner sold it to real estate developers years ago, why is it still a big, neo-Gothic abandoned building?

Anyway, for those of you who like low-budget flicks with cheesy dialogue and swiss cheese plots, this one is for you!