B.T.K. Killer (2005)

Truly Dreadful Film

Gripping story with well-crafted characters

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

It's not often I write a review, but in the case of this film I felt compelled to do so in the event that some pour soul happens to read it and subsequently saves themselves from the pain of viewing this movie.I picked this film from the shelf of a local video store having not heard of its existence until that moment. Having previously seen films based on the murderous exploits of the likes of Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, and Richard Ramirez, the "BTK Killer" title caught my eye so I picked it up.As soon as it began, I realized that this film was not what it was advertised to be. This is NOT a film accurately portraying the story of Dennis Rader, the real BTK Killer. This is an extremely low budget movie filmed with what looks to be a Handy-Cam, splicing ridiculous murder scenes with footage from a slaughterhouse that has absolutely nothing to do with what is happening in the film. The BTK Killer did not force feed his victims live rats, or cover their faces in ground beef. The acting, plot, dialogue etc are all amateur and atrocious at best, right down to a strange scene with two news anchors wherein the male continuously hurls sexist remarks at his female co-anchor.There are films out there such as The Room (2003) and Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010) that people watch and enjoy simply because they're "so bad that they're good." This is not one of those films. It's just mind numbingly awful. Take a pass

I could not possibly describe with words how bad this movie is it makes Blair Witch Project look like a Jerry Bruckheimer film. It might work as a PSA for PETA but then after watching it they may flush it as well. The parts where he writes the letters to the press are to die for and the soundtrack had my sides hurting from laughing so hard Is there any way I can sue the producers of this film for the eighty eight minutes it took to watch this vile trash. If i learned anything from this it's only that Hamburger meat is the smell of death and in the end This film will only make you less intelligent for having watched it...... Whats my name??? B period!!!!!!!!! T period!!!!!!!!! K period!!!!!!!!!

Very few movies are deserving of a 0/10. There's almost always some redeemable feature in all films, despite their appalling nature. Battle For The Year 3000, for example, had some comedic parts with the 'favourite' meal being rats, and some decent one liners.BTK, deserves to be given the death sentence. BTK deserves zero. BTK should be considered a act of torture if shown to people. BTK is just that bad.It was, in fact, so bad it led me to graffiti the blockbuster video case with the following message."Of all the movies I've ever seen, this is the worst. Save your money, bash your head into a brick wall for the same effect."There is a famous thought exercise along the lines of; "Could a million monkeys at a million typewriters create Hamlet?"BTK has inspired a new one."Could a single chicken at a keyboard create a worst script than BTK".

BTK Killer (2005) * (out of 4) Another film in director Ulli Lommel's "serial killer series"; this time Dennis Rader is the main target. The film takes place during the 70's and 2004 but it really doesn't matter because this film is bad from start to finish. Nothing in the film really connects to the real killer and during the commentary track the director is asked how closely the murders were to the real life cases and he replies that he didn't know. It seems as if the director simply read the bottom line on CNN about BTK and then filmed this thing. The only reason I don't give this a BOMB is due to the two men who play BTK. They don't deliver great performances but they are better than what we usually see in a no-budget film like this. What was really wacky was the pig/cow slaughter house footage, which runs throughout the film. Seeing these animals slaughtered over and over again really doesn't add anything.