Poor Agnes

The plot featuring a female serial killer is intriguing and the performance is shockingly of high quality.

Bumped into this randomly on a streaming website and thought this is another low budget crap but this is actually a decent piece of work with some really interesting tweaks. Of course it's no where near a masterpiece but the creativity as illustrated in the script and camerawork is worthy of rounds of applause. I don't think the 5.5 rating serve the movie justice at all and look forward to seeing more work from the leading actress. A great entertainment watch while also touching upon gender dynamics and challenging viewer's pre set conceptions.

Agnes (Lora Burke) is a cold-hearted beauty living alone in a remote home. She sells man's items to the local pawn shop. She's contacted by Mike Mercer (Robert Notman) pretending to be a CNN reporter. When he shows up, he reveals that he's actually an investigator looking for a missing man. She's a serial killer. What's a girl to do but have sex with the guy and chain him up. He becomes her submissive and she brings home Chris.

The first hour is an interesting little two-hander. At times, it's almost a black comedy. Burke has a nice dark deadpan psychotic anger. The actors are not top notch or well known but they are able to play the parts. I'm fascinated to see this with two bigger actors. Mike needs something to make him more submissive. He should be a bespectacled nerd or maybe an overweight loser like Chris. Agnes would be more compelling if she has more humor in her character. She definitely has the crazy girlfriend vibe. Mike just needs to be weaker or more psycho-adjacent.

This initially comes across as a low budget B movie, but it is far from it. I'm sure it was filmed with minimal money, but that doesn't matter much. It is well done and compelling, with good actors, sound story line and vivid representations of some pretty sick people. She, of course, is a psychotic killer, but her subordinate is really twisted as well. One would ask why he stays, but that's just it. His sickness compliments hers, and although he claims to be 'not like her', he is. It's a cause for ponder as to which of them is sicker. Folie au deux. And man, it's too bad that IMB requires a person to write a book when posting a review.

A TOTAL PIECE OF GARBAGE - SPEND YOUR TIME MORE WISELY. WATCHING THIS ISN'T IT. SHOULD NOT EVEN GET A "1" BUT THERE IS NO CATEGORY FOR "0". SIMPLY SHOWS PERSONS IN A LEGAL CAPACITY AS TOTALLY STUPID. DAH.

This film has me enthralled from start to finish. The creativity and thought that went into this was evident. I would highly reccomend watching again, again and again. A job well done from an incredible cast and crew!