Post by Xч on Sept 29, 2008 4:53:54 GMT -5
John Lucker is a deeply disturbed serial rapist and killer. Locked up in a clinic after committing eight murders (and keeping the bodies around for his own sexual pleasure after the people died!!!) Lucker manages to escape and flees to the city... searching for the one lone survivor of his previous killing spree. His disgusting rampage continues and more people die one by one. Lucker must find and kill the woman who escaped him the first time and no one will get in his way!
Lucker (1986), better known by its full title Lucker the Necrophagous, is a Belgian exploitation film directed and produced by Johan Vandewoestijne, and was released in France and Belgium in 1986.
It is notorious for several scenes of extreme gore and alleged misogyny, and has achieved a cult status by horror collectors. However, due to several distribution issues in the past, it has been banished into obscurity.
It is best known, however, for its unflinching portrayal of necrophilia in perhaps the film's most infamous scene, where escaped serial killer John Lucker (played by Nick Van Suyt) waits four weeks after slaying a prostitute to have sex with her badly decomposing corpse.
A re-edition by Johan Vandewoestijne was released worldwide in May 2007. In avant-première, the new edition was shown by the Flemish Film Museum and archive in Kortrijk on December 7, 2006
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.
This is a simple tale of a murdering rapist with a taste for necrophilia, Lucker details what happens when the title character escapes an asylum to hunt down his one surviving victim. In case you're wondering, what happens is more murdering and necrophilia. If the movie had any level of discernible skill evident, (beyond the rudimentary) any punch to the gore scenes, and didn't seem interminable and repetitive even at a sprightly 68 minutes, it would be unbearable. As it is, it parlays one or two oddly beautiful sequences, a handful of brutal but totally fake murders and a completely disgusting scene of post-mortem poontang into default cult-status...
I say watch it..then tell me what you thought of it.
But i dig this movie and i proudly have it in my horror collection.
Highly recommended for gore hounds and freaks
