Reviewed By: James D.
The Orphan Killer is quite possibly one of the better
slasher films in the indie market right now in terms of good gore and
bloodshed. The kills and torture were really well done. The story focuses
around Marcus, and his baby sister Audrey. When he was 6 and she was 2, their
parents were killed when they got robbed. They were sent to a home, where
Marcus took his parents death harder than she did. He acted out and got more
violent. The nuns punished him by making where this old theater mask and
treating him like some sort of freak. While Audrey found a home and a family, Marcus
took it hard and vowed revenge on her.
My problems with this film are the pacing and the use of the
flashbacks. You get a great kill and some adrenaline going, and they whip up
this flashback that made no sense. The music in some scenes did not fit…I would
have loved less music and more mood of the characters and their emotions, rather
than loud music, or some female folk singer. The other negative, was the set up
to the barb wire scene. Talk about something that was just dragged out getting
to the point, and the conversation he has with his sister once he strings her
up was just horrible.
