B.T.K. (2008)

Good concept, poorly executed.

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Blistering performances.

As many reviewers here have noted, the events in this film are substantially different from Dennis Rader's BTK crimes. It's poorly acted and just plain gruesome. But I do think I understand what this production was attempting to do.This film picks up in 2004 when the BTK crimes had become a cold case to the police, who are surprised to start getting letters from BTK again. We enter the deranged mind of Dennis Rader as he sleeps -- and DREAMS -- about the other crimes he has been considering committing, and how it might play out if he were caught. Yes, folks, this whole thing is a BTK dream (but the audience's nightmare). Rader admitted freely that he had been stalking and planning other murders when he was finally arrested in 2005, and several of the women he harasses/kills in this film fit the known details of his intended targets. In reality, a couple of women had restraining orders on him and one even moved away because of his harassment -- and two of the women he stalks in this film are clearly based on them.At first, while watching this, I didn't understand why they would include so much factual information (actual poetry and drawings) but then depict murders that never happened. But the similarity to his intended future victims is what made me see what they were up to: the cliché old dream sequence technique.However, even understanding that doesn't redeem this voyeuristic and gratuitously violent film. The lead actor physically resembles Rader in many ways and does his best to appear menacing. The women mostly overact (his wife "Susan" and one of the daughters, for example) or underact (the other daughter).Wish I had never watched this. Made me feel like I had been dragged through scum and needed to take a shower.

B.T.K.(Bind,Torture, Kill) is supposedly based on a real serial Killer,I never heard of this guy.The movie was written, Directed & Produced by Micheal Fiefer,He has made other serial killer films,I saw part of one of them.I did not like what I saw, so I shut if off..This one however, is not a good film from the very first frame. It is shoddily made, badly acted & written, BUT it had a good deal of humour, which I enjoyed. The killer,is an overweight middle aged family man,with a pretty but hefty wife & 2 daughters, He is also a devout church member, He just has a problem & solves it by killing innocent people (some of who have irked him in doing his job as a compliance officer in this small town). Now to me that was humorous.There are a few gory scenes, but they do go fast. The entire movie goes fast, Running time a quick 85 minutes. I have no way of knowing how true this tale is nor do I care.As I said its a guilty pleasure type of film.Its not a good film by any standard, but I enjoyed it & I think you may as well.Ratings: **1/2 (out of 4) 66 points+ (out of 100) IMDb 6 (out of 10_+ 66 points is very bottom of point,rating & IMDb range

First off people should at least use a Google search to find out what the BTK serial killer did and that he did actually exist as our friend from New Zealand failed to do. Yes, the BTK serial killer did exist this is not one of a series of films of made up serial killers from some company named BTK. Dennis Rader avoided detection and held people in fear for many years before being apprehended. He called himself BTK because he would Bind, Torture, and then Kill his victims. He operated in the Wichita, KS area United States. This film is not a blow by blow account of his misdeeds but rather an assumption of many of them blending truths with suppositions. While this film is not going to win awards it is a look into the twisted mind of a serial killer that seems to fascinate while also disgusting the observers. If serial killers are a subject of interest to you then you will find this film worthwhile, if not then you might want to pass.

Some months ago I have read bout the BTK KIller, have watched some documetals bout him, and I know the story from its beginning. After have seen that this year there will be a new film made for him, I was waiting with big interest to see what will the director make this time, because the old films were very bad. After have watched the new one, I can sure tell you, that this is the worst from all the BTK films. I have not seen any clear idea in all the 90 minutes of this boring film. The director has tried to do something different from the real story of BTK, but everything is made so stupid that he has not won my interest more than 10 second for all the 90 mins. I don't wanna post spoilers and so on.. My suggestion is to stay away from this crappy thing. The title of the film must be "The Stupid Way to Show the Emotions of a Serial Killer". The real story is so interesting, I can't realize why the directors must make such self-interpretations of the story. Are they so unable to make 1-1 story-film. Neither Horror, nor Drama, nor Biography. Btw I think some child, knowing the whole story, can make a better film than this one.1/10