Best movie of this year hands down!

not as good as all the hype

Absolutely the worst movie.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Awkward and unhinged loner Tony (a creepy and convincing portrayal by Bob Meyer) works at a mannequin factory. One day Tony decides to stop being a peeping tom and graduates to stalking women prior to strangling them and having sex with their corpses.Director Barry Mahon keeps the deliciously depraved story moving along at a reasonable pace, makes fine use of various grimy New York City locations complete with choice footage of Times Square in all its awesomely seedy 60's glory, maintains a leering sleazy tone throughout, and, naturally, delivers oodles of tasty gratuitous distaff nudity. Toothsome blonde Uta Erickson acquits herself well (and bares her nice body) as a mean hooker while Bob Gran amuses as Tony's overbearing boss. Moreover, this movie offers a few inspired loopy moments, with Tony's ill-advised "date" with a mannequin head rating as a definite gut-busting highlight. The grainy cinematography provides a suitably scroungy look. Worth a watch for aficionados of tawdry adults only exploitation fare.

(Some Spoilers) More like a home movie then anything else "The Sex Killer" plot is your run of the mill sex pervert film with nothing to recommended it but a number of pretty girls, who for the most part end up getting strangled, and a look at the grimy streets and red light district of Manhattan circa the mid 1960's.Tony who works in a mannequin warehouse in the Garment District of New York City is a bit shy with women having trouble making any connection or striking up any relationship with them. We see at the start of the movie Tony going into a camera store and buying a pair of binoculars that he later uses to spy, from the safety of a high-rise buildings rooftop, on young women sunbathing in the nude. Getting all hot and worked up seeing all these busty young women, who seem to be posing for him, from his porch on top f the high-rise Tony get up enough nerve t go down to Times Square and pick up a hooker.Tony's encounter with the hooker turns out to be a total dud with him not having enough money to have any action with her. All the hooker allows Tony , who only has $10.00 on him, to do is watch her undress and nothing more. It's then that something inside Tony's sick minds snaps and sets him off to stalk down and murder a number of young women, including the hooker whom he picked up, mostly in their apartments that Tony breaks into.The film "The Sex Killer" runs it's predictable course with Tony getting more and more careless every time he gets away with murdering his victims. Tony in order to satisfy his sick sexual urges also rapes and violates the womens after he murders them having him dubbed by the local newspapers and police as the "New York Necrophilia Rapist/Killer".Breaking again into a young woman's apartment in order to satisfy his now out of control and inflamed libido Tony ends up getting caught when she escapes from his clutches. Running out of her apartment and into the hallway ,totally nude, the young woman together with a good neighbor, who gave her a robe to cover up, get a hold of a cop outside the building to arrest the murderous pervert. Chasing Tony up on the roof the cop pulls no punches ,as he pulls out his revolver, blasting Tony and causing him to fall some 20 floors to his death below.Tony for his part was a very sick young man who desperately needed help to control and cure his uncontrollable and dangerous sexual desires. Unfortunately Tony didn't seek help and it was after he crossed that point of no return when he went from watching to murdering the women that turned him on that there was no help that society, other then long stretch behind bars or a cops bullet in his chest, could offer him.

Tony works in a mannequin factory in grimy NYC. He has this strange sexual attraction to the mannequins. One day he brings home a head from one of them. In his spare time he uses binoculars to spy on topless women sunbathing on the tops of buildings. Then he walks into womens apartments (in this universe no one locks their doors), kills them and has sex with their bodies (not shown). There's also a ton of pointless female nudity which has nothing to do with the plot.There's nothing wrong with showing women dressing and undressing--this is an adult film after all and it has its audience. But when you throw in violence and necrophilia it gets pretty sick. Thankfully the killings themselves aren't that bad--only two are shown and they're just strangulations. That aside the film is painfully dull (I fast forwarded through most of it) and no reason is given for Tony's actions. There's very little dialogue and the guy who plays Tony actually isn't a bad actor. But this is a slow, sick and deadly dull movie. A 1 all the way.

Mention the name "Barry Mahon" to film buffs and most of the time you will get a blank stare. Students of the Adults Only subgenre might bring up THE BEAST THAT KILLED WOMEN and hopefully soon people will be discussing THE DEAD ONE, a serious terror thriller that has just been rediscovered. Barry is also responsible for this film, a moody black and white drama that had a lot of potential which went unrealised. The plot (oh yes there's a plot) centers on Tony, a quiet guy who works in a warehouse that makes mannequins for department stores. Tony appears to be a shy fellow who seldom says three complete sentences in a whole day and lives a Spartan existence in his barely furnished apartment. One day Tony asks his boss if he can take a mannequin home. When he is turned down Tony "borrows" a head and actually takes it on a date! He takes it to a bar and talks to it while the bartender looks on and shakes his head. (The bar, like all other locations in this film, is a real one and that was probably the real bartender playing himself. The look on his face is meant to apply to Tony, the character in the film but you can imagine he was watching the scene being filmed and thought "The things some guys will do for a job.") Tiring of his bodiless date Tony buys some binoculars and sneaks into a high rise apartment to spy on women sunbathing topless on the roofs of the walkup apartments nearby. This is an interesting look at how much easier life was when this was filmed. The apartment we see has no doorman and it is relatively easy for Tony to sneak in a side door and go up to the roof. In fact he does it several times in the movie and is never stopped even once! This is where Mr. Mahon separates us from reality a little too well. Reel-istically all of the women Tony spies on are attractive but notice how the camera angle changes frequently as he spies on them. We are supposed to see what Tony is seeing through his binoculars, so how can the angle of his vision keep changing? Just keep saying "It's only a movie." Even spying is not enough after a while and Tony starts stalking the women he spies on and strangles them to death. Of course since he never bothers to cover his tracks it is only a matter of time (and not much time either, this movie runs less than one hour) before Tony comes to the end of the road. You can see that for yourself though; I won't spoil the end for you. I wondered how this movie would have looked had it been done without dialogue (qv., DEMENTIA (a/k/a DAUGHTER OF HORROR)). The dialogue really adds nothing to the plot except something to laugh at; it is the visuals that hold our interest. Not a classic, but not wholly unwatchable either. The nudity and violence blend into the plot well and even the abrupt ending does not seem to be contrived. Nicely done, but not the sort of movie you can watch over and over.