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It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

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

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

The acting in this movie is really good.

Take a string of beautiful Polish women, all more than willing to go nude for their first film appearance; take the killer from Mario Bava's giallo masterpiece BLOOD AND BLACK LACE; take one amateur film-maker with aspirations to be Dario Argento and what you have is Roman Nowicki's abysmally bad FANTOM KILER. Never has a film been more offensive than this misogynistic rubbish, plot less drivel which is basically an excuse to showcase copious amounts of naked female flesh and indulge in Nowicki's perverse imaginings. Whilst the female cast members are undoubtedly attractive (obviously picked for their looks) none of them can act and their lack of skill shows throughout. The men are even worse, badly playing up stale caricatures of janitors and policemen. When half of the film's scenes consist of two such janitors imaging the women who pass through a railway station in the nude you know the people who made this are desperately reaching for ideas.Supposedly "artistic" direction consists of too many closeups of eyeballs, a laughable phone flying out of one in one bad dream scene, lots of wiggling cameras, and an overload of predictable music to accompany the action. The murders are all depraved (and ALL require the female victim to lose her clothing) but the fake gore effects - little more than a few splashes of fake blood - counter any real horror which might have come from them. The average murder lasts for about twenty minutes (!) so there's no room for any plot in between - just a couple of scenes of policemen discussing the murders. And the Polish humour which proliferates this movie - including some bizarre antics involving a wooden spoon - is definitely something that doesn't translate well to a foreign audience. Incredibly, many sequels followed, which disturbingly shows that there is a market somewhere for this garbage and somebody actually gets a kick from this trash. All discerning fans should avoid it like the plague.

Fantom kiler (1998) BOMB (out of 4) Pointless, tasteless, disgusting, amateurish and just downright pathetic horror/sex film from Poland, which caused quite a stir when it hit the underground market several years ago. A man in a mask goes around slaughtering, mutilating and sexually assaulting women who he deems whores. The sexual violence in this film is quite disturbing and even more disturbing is the fact that several people actually get off on watching this type of stuff. I've always stood up for horror films and the mainstreams attack on the violence against women but this film here crosses about every single line and creates new lines just to cross them as well. We see women getting raped by knifes, tire irons and various other objects and for what? There's no story going on here, just various images of women being tortured. The other half of the film is nothing but nudity as the women, for no reason whatsoever, take their clothes off at every chance they get. A truly pathetic film and what's worse is there are two sequels.

I don't care what anyone else says - I dug FANTOM KILER. How can you not like a film where EVERY female in the film gets completely butt-nekkid??? And if you're a fan of sleazy, misogynistic, trash-cinema (don't lie - you love it...) - then how can you not like a film where nearly every "victim" is not only slashed-up, but also vaginally-impaled with various objects, including: knife, railroad-spike, broomstick, and one truly confusing scene (not related to slashing) where a girl gets a wooden spoon up the b-hole...beautiful stuff...Anyway - on to "plot" - what plot? I have no idea - my copy is a Euro release with no English dubs/subs - all I could gather is some bandaged-wrap-faced freak who wears typical Italian giallo-killer garb, likes to sexually molest and stab up hot chicks and finishes up by rammin' stuff up their coot. That's enough for me. There seemed to be some comedic elements at play that I didn't exactly understand, and I think some sort of "police investigation" as well...First off - for a low-budget film, FANTOM KILER actually has a lot of "style" and tries to make more out of itself than you would think possible given the obvious budget constraints. The editing is almost music-video-like in the kill-scenes, and is actually pretty cool. There are also scenes that for whatever reason appear to be intentionally "degraded" visually - not sure why - but if you watch it, you'll see what I mean. I like the fact that pretty much everything "plot-wise" that happens on screen is a set-up for some hot broad to lose her clothes. That, my friends, is EXCELLENT script-writing. The nudity is hot and heavy and is pretty explicit (even some bent-over cooch-n-bung shots) - though don't expect XXX-fare either. Lots of sexy, silicone-enhanced, shaved and oiled bodies on display - the best part being that these chicks are SO hot, that they are oiled UNDERNEATH their clothing. As far as the "controversy" as to the Director's true identity and whether the film was filmed in Poland or the UK - I couldn't care less. My only gripe is that with as much skin and sleaze as is on display here - there are times where it drags pretty badly, and even some of the kill set-ups are kinda dull - even with all the nude flesh on display. Also - they should've done more with the gore FX, as they're pretty weak and not nearly as sick and splattery as I would have preferred. Other than that - this is a pretty twisted-but-fun "giallo" (using the term in the broadest sense) that delivers heavily on the sleaze-meter. Can't wait to throw in FANTOM KILER 2 tonite...8.5/10

Women are frequent victims of violence in horror films, and therefore it's hardly surprising that horror cinema has had its fair share of criticisms of misogyny. The Europeans, especially, really know how to push the envelope. Graphic, sexualised violence and gore in movies like GIALLO A VENEZIA, THE NEW YORK RIPPER, DELIRIUM and THE KILLER IS AMONG US have been well documented. Some films went even further with their portrayals of violence against women. In movies such as LATE NIGHT TRAINS and HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK, women are frequently shown to *enjoy* sexual assault and rape. This outrageous "porno rape" lack of morality is very uncomfortable to watch.FANTOM KILER, a modern giallo from Poland that has made a lot of waves in the horror scene, takes these concepts and goes far further than anyone ever has before. The result is a truly reprehensible, sickeningly misogynistic work that is impossible to defend. If ever there was a piece of celluloid that could be accused of being an incitement to rape, it is this.Thin on story-line, FANTOM KILER is no more than a series of tableux of sexual violence. A man with a bandaged face stalks and murders beautiful women in highly stylised scenes, which utilise a lot of clever editing and modern digital effects. However, the truly shocking aspect of this film is the nature of the killings. Every female victim is beautiful and looks like a glamour model, and the set-ups to each murder scene are very reminiscent of those in porn loops. For example, a woman's car breaks down in the woods, and she gets lost, having her clothes slowly torn away by the trees and fences she has to climb over. The women are dressed and filmed in a worryingly provocative way. When the killings come, they invariably revolve around genital mutilation. Although no gory details are explicitly shown, it is VERY clear what is going on.Despite the lack of gore, the killings are amongst the most shocking I've ever seen in a movie, mainly because it is obliquely suggested that the female victims ENJOY their assault. They act aroused, touch the killer affectionately and sensitively, and in some cases appear to achieve "orgasm" as they die. The dialogue backs this up too.There is no way this film can be defended. It plays like a porn movie for potential killers. I have never seen such a film totally devoid of morality. Even in other highly contentious movies (such as FORCED ENTRY) there is at least criticism or an attempt to create repulsion at the scenes of violence being shown. Not so here. This eroticises misogyny and tries to make pornography out of sexual violence, with the "they all like it really" mentality taken as far as it could possibly go.Literally unbelievable. This is the movie that censors, critics and feminists want to exist, and I hope they never get to see it.