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      This time around Brandon the Killer goes out in his car to stalk his latest victim. He instantly notices a short but attractive female. Brandon is not shy so he gets out the car with his camera on record and begins his routine. Brandon follows the girl and converses with her. The conversation isn’t important as it is nothing but the mundane back and forth between two people that are about to hook up. She does seem put off by the fact that Brandon is taping their encounter but she naively believes his excuse. Brandon mentions that he likes to tape his experiences during all of his road trips because he’ll always get to keep his memories. After he walks her home, she tells him to go get his car and promises him he won’t forget her. 

      Right away when they get into Brandon’s place he begins his heavy petting and groping but she plays hard to get. Slowly from this moment he gets uglier and uglier while still managing to make his victim believe he’s just kidding. It seems his ladyfriend likes to get choked and do the rough stuff. The one thing she doesn’t like is Brandon pressing his hand hard all over her face. She mentions a number of time for him to stop and he keeps doing it. Eventually he pisses her off to the point where she can’t take it anymore. She leaves and he chases but not in a sinister way. He tries to make her believe that his nasty side wasn’t genuine and that he was just new at the rougher kind of sex. He didn’t just put her hands in her face. He actually spit on her a number of times and that made her get out of dodge. Does he get her back to his place? Does she survive? 

      I won’t say the scenario is as believable as the first time around. In the first film, the girls age made the film believable and shocking as her age got smaller in numbers. In this film the girl seemed like she may have been around the block. Sure she was flirtatious and she did tolerate a little too much before taking off, but she grown and she had an understanding of all the situations she was in. The girl in the first film may have been confused with all the sexual stuff being that she was inexperienced. The new girl seemed put off a number of times and had the opportunity to leave. Nothing really bothered me other than the fact that this 18-19 year old girl was just as dumb as the young girl when it came to her decision to go back to Brandon’s place. 

      These films aren’t gory but are repulsive. Shane Ryan takes a chance everytime he makes these shoestring budget snuff porns. He is shooting fake snuff films that’s will disturb most well adjusted people. I am not shocked because I understand these kind of films but the word shocking still defines this film. Watching Brandon constantly grope his victim is just such a turn off. Never is the porn in this film sexy. I am a man, and I also have an understanding that this film will sell do to the title. Perverts, scumbags, pedophiles and all types of society rejects will be into this film for the title alone. A lot of lonely men might think this film is jack off material but I gotta say it is not sexy at all. Ryan creates a character that doesn’t play romance. He is constantly groping, poking and trying to touch his victims asshole (No joke). The film does have oral sex, penetration, spitting, choking and lots of verbal abuse. It’s no fun but its interesting to be repulsed knowing that its pretend and done on a lower budget than mostly any movie period. 

      Kai Lanette was great but she was not the heroine type that the back of the DVD box art lead me to believe. She was tiny, gullable and she was into half of the physical abuse the Brandon character dished out to her. Anyhow she seemed natural as the party gal type and she did react when Brandon pushed to far. I guess her character just forgave him to easily and eventually she paid for it. 

      There are two versions of this Cinema Epoch release. Both the “Snuff” version and “The Movie” version are included in the package. The movie has some post production specks and other trippie imagery. There’s also assorted scenes of Brandon and his past victims spliced out throughout the film. The snuff version is what feels more appropriate for what Shane Ryan was trying to accomplish. He wants the film to feel like a real snuff film. The “snuff” version for his sequel is more authentic than the “Movie” version and his original film. The longer I am a horror fan, the easier it is to get desensitized to this kind of subject matter. Bottom line is that most people would not respond well to this movie. A lot of people might find the simple human interaction tedious. I am sure Shane Ryan will be considered a smut peddler that likes to get his dick sucked on video.  

      The bottom line is that his films are effective exploitation. His idea isn’t as fresh as the first time around but the killer is just as nasty if not nastier. The ending of his last film was stark  but simple. Simplicity is the game again but stark is not the word for the feeling. Brandon does the most defiling act a human being can do. I don’t know whether to cheer Shane Ryan or to not support his films. Sometimes I believe he is a scumbag. But that’s his point. He is doing all of this with no budget. I am sure he’ll keep making these films as long as they’re profitable. He should move on like Fred Vogel moved on from his August Underground Series. I have a feeling that Shane Ryan doesn’t have a talented special effects team or a love for the horror genre that Fred Vogel has. Still I think these films have a certain flare to them that makes the faux snuff genre interesting. This film will make girls think twice about one night stands and it captures the anger of a maniac pretty damn good. Shane Ryan plays a subtle scumbag. Its so hard to explain how nasty his character is. He hardly raises his voice. He’s just a rude, women hating , manipulator. That’s what makes his goreless but porn laced films work. Brandon the Killer treats women like shit and it aint fun. For some reason they put up with him in the films and he executes them. The age revelation in the original and what he accomplished with such a tiny budget made me appreciate the first one so much. This film carries on the ugliness but the concept is “You know the drill”.  Still I recommend the series….so far.

** 1/2   

-Russ Rutter