Review: Lucker - the Necrophagous
Director: Johan Vandewoestijne
Well, this is where I get to let the Region 1 reader drool...
Lucker is on of very few,( if there are more ?) Belgian horror films - an even with it's low budget and virtually nonexistent commercial potential it leaves Freddy, Jason and Pinhead looking like schoolgirls.
Johan Vandewoestijne gave life to this fowl film in 1986 and it hasn't been easy to come by since the 90's.
Let me put it to you this way, if you liked Necromantic than you will love this.
I must be honest tough, Lucker does not surpass Buttgereit's disturbing , surreal creation but, I can tell you it has it's moments of utter deprivation.
The story is quite classical -John Lucker a psychopatic nectophilliac, escapes from a mental institution and starts killing. See he has his boxers in a bunch because one of his victims got away. And on the way to her he takes a gouge out of ladies that happen to cross his way. O, and did I mention that I likes his beer cold and his women dead ? -preferably a week and nicely decayed.
I also found the 'italian beginning a very nice touch.
The violence is graphic and uncompromising, yet it turns out it has been 'compromised'. Apparently some of the the violence didn't make it to HVS after all. However there are rumors of an un-sensored version which rarely circulates in the lowlands...
Since this is made before the DVD era, it had to be dubbed in English in order not to scream 'Debts in progress ' even louder. And yes, as is so often the case, the dubbing sucks big time... and that doesn't really help of some weak acting either (actually the horrible actresses made me laugh at the humilation climax. their over the top screaming goes on and on and on untill you really can't hep but laugh while Lucker is throwing the not-so-freshly chopped off head of woman to his next victim). I can only hope to see the original version, but the chances are practically nihill since the master-tape has allegedly been taken into custody of a bank and was destroyed. So someone is going to have to pull a particularly gore rabbit out of his had when boasting to release the 'uncut version' on dvd...
Anyhow, the cut version should not disappoint you. -That is if you are looking for something putrid which you are unlikely to find in a self-respecting video store.
This isn't for everyone, gore-hounds and sinner-matic freaks like me will get what they are looking for (and maybe a bit more) but, it will make any 'Scream' lover wet their pants for days.
Reviewed by: LordLeviathan, added November 01 2005
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