Product Details

• Actors: James Ellroy;Robert Berdella;Christopher Leo;Roger Coleman;Bryce Morrow
• Directors: Benjamin Meade
• Format: Color, DVD, Full length, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Pathfinder Home Ent.
• DVD Release Date: April 25, 2006
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000EJ9ROM
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #32,576 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Robert A "Bob" Berdella tortured, sodomized, photographed and murdered six men, dismembered them, and put their bagged remains out for trash pickup. Bob’s secrets began to emerge the day before Easter, 1988, when a bloody, naked man escaped Berdella’s home wearing only a dog collar. Berdella later confessed to killing six men - some by lethal injection, some by suffocation. All suffered tremendous horrors, as Berdella would torture them sexually, with electric shocks, inject them with animal tranquilizers, put bleach in their eyes, and inject drain cleaner in their voicebox to keep them from screaming. He documented these horrors in a detailed torture log and photographs. What police called torture, Berdella called "my darkest fantasies becoming reality." Novelist James Ellroy (LA Confidential, Black Dalia) presents this provocative film in a campy yet direct presentation guaranteed to make the viewer squirm.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Documentary with reinactments!, December 22, 2006

By	True Crime Grrl (Southern, CA) - See all my reviews

I think your ordinary "scary" movie watcher might not like this. But as a serial killer buff i must say this was good! If you want to know about Bob Berdella and not just watch reinactments (like Bundy, Gacy and Dahmer) this is a good one! You get to see the blood in the reinactments but you also get to hear from an actual victim, see the place and the town and more about the one and only Bob Berdella who was one sick bastard ;)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Both Campy and Gory, but interesting., December 13, 2006

By	Duane (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews

I think only those aware of the Berdella story will like this. It's part documentary, part campy reenactment. Berdella is interviewed, as are the detectives who worked the case and Chris Bryson--the young man who escaped and brought an end to Berdella's murderous reign.

And, to those who, like me, have a morbid fascination in wanting to see the Berdella photos (other than those displayed in the book written years ago), throughout the film, during the reenactment scenes of Berdella taking pictures of his drugged victims, shots of the actual victims are quickly flashed on the screen.

1.0 out of 5 stars amateur hour, November 7, 2009

By	Gregory Starr - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Somehow the filmmakers got novelist James Ellroy to participate, but that is limited to obvious moral pronouncements of how evil Berdella was and how little self-insight he had. Another "coup" was that the filmmakers got some post-sentencing interview footage with a local reporter who like Larry King manages to never ask the obvious and most interesting questions. The third feature is four videos from an above-average Death Metal group, a pretty good growling vocalist/soundtrack designer, with campy lyrics; these videos appear four times, three being completely out of place in the movie, disrupting the movie's flow. A fourth feature is an interview with a surviving victim who however does not seem to remember much; so he talks vaguely about his life afterwards instead. Despite their persuasive ability to involve a number of local people with the film, the filmmakers do not make an interesting film. It radiates its low budget---apparently financed by McDonald's day jobs---and looks like a student class project---using lots of pig intestines and Heinz 57. The actors are full bellied and out of condition(perhaps suggesting that Berdella lacked a sense of classic beauty); none of the actors seem to have any future in this profession.Incredibly, the film cover claims that the film provides "creativity". No, except for the music which is low threshold creative. The overall impression is that the film is inept, neither interesting nor entertaining, and is not worth seeing once. This film seems unlikely to become a collector's item. The film is useful in the sense that you wonder how they managed to produce such a poor film about a criminal of Hannibal proportions. Back to McDonalds for these guys.