Product Details

• Actors: Jason Gedrick, Jessica Steen
• Directors: Graeme Campbell
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Prism Video
• VHS Release Date: April 28, 1993
• Run Time: 83 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 1.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302717159
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #306,801 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Starring: Jason Gedrick, Jessica Steen, Gary Farmer

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars With Little Talent, Very Little Is Accomplished., August 7, 2005

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rsoonsa (Lake Isabella, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Still Life (DVD)

Filmed in a Toronto that is meant to depict New York City, this carelessly produced low-budget piece is loosely organized from its beginning, with most of its shortcomings stemming from a scenario concerning a serial killer operating in a rundown artist's loft district, the victims being indigents who, after being shot in the head, are ensconced within oversized picture frames and arranged as pastiches of popular paintings, e.g., Whistler's Mother, with an accompanying "A.K." (Art Killer) signature. A painfully untalented musician, Peter Sherwood (Jason Gedrick), whose uninventive electronic ability with keyboard and sampler fails to bring him fiscal success, his live-in girlfriend Nellie (Jessica Steen), and their performing artist pal Teddy (Stephen Shellen) reside within the stricken area amid the homicide hullabaloo, with Nellie a New York television journalist reporting upon the slayings as they occur. A trifling attempt is made to depict how the killer has become a "popular" figure with fringe members of the citizenry, and Nellie and Teddy each enjoys benefits from publicity, but when Peter is assaulted by a pair of non-lethal "A.K." copycats and subsequently attached to a frame in a junkyard, this particular media event has come too near the trio for their comfort. Additionally, local police, essentially it would seem limited in number to one rather seedy detective, have begun to suspect Sherwood of being "A.K." as some type of disturbed ploy with which to further his stuttering music career, and personal forms of danger increase for Peter and his kidnapped lover. With a working title of ART KILLER FRAMED wisely changed, this film, despite its macabre theme and trappings of violence, lacks that important ingredient of suspense, critical to all genres, since even a semi-comatose viewer will have solved the case in short order, and no character as portrayed will gain audience sympathy. Direction is flaccid, particularly noticeable when players are forced to weakly ad lib, and post-production efforts fail to correct flaws, notably relative to the generally poorly written dialogue and other sound issues, and the unimpressive actors obviously lack oversight; requisite attention to planning plainly was not available for this work.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ouch! Phewy! Ughhhh!, April 24, 2004

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Gary Lehmann (Penfield, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Still Life - (aka "Art Killer") [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is almost certainly the worst film I have seen in ten years. Though I spent real money to purchase it on this site, I discarded it, unrewound, immediately after it was [mercifully] over. The film starts out reasonably enough. A killer starts to plague the arts community of a metropolitan area. This burg appears to be New York in the opening credits but very soon becomes Toronto. The killer starts to kill artists and those associated with artists by painting their dead bodies into a still life. After the first murder, a love affair and some false leads develop that fool you into thinking a real movie is developing, but the whole plot degenerates into absurdity as it progresses. Police don't question people about crimes. Love affairs disintegrate without explanation. And finally, the killer is revealed to be.... Oh why spoil it? Buy it and torture yourself.

2.0 out of 5 stars APPROPRIATELY TITLED, May 8, 2004

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Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Still Life - (aka "Art Killer") [VHS] (VHS Tape)

STILL LIFE is one of those movies that could have been a lot better, and a lot worse. Still, it's not a movie I would recommend. Jason Gedrick stars as a wannabe music composer who uses a keyboard and sampler to come up with his tunes, which are about as original and exciting as hot syrup. Meanwhile, a serial killer calling himself the Art Killer is plaguing the city. The murderer usually selects homeless people, kills them and then poses them in some artistic manner (such as Whistler's Mother), and then leaves his AK signature. Oddly enough, the serial killer has garnered some fans who admire his creativity? And of course Gedrick is framed for the murders. His newscaster girlfriend (played by the lovely Jessica Steen) is bent on making a career on Gedrick's publicity, and his odd friend Teddy (horribly played by Stephen Shellen) joins in the quest for fame. There is little suspense generated, and the killer's identity is obvious after fifteen minutes into the movie. Still Life is pretty much that...a murder mystery that doesn't go anywhere.