Mad Mutilator (1983)
* 1/2 (out of 4)
Bizzrre French film that tries to cash in and pay homage to the American slasher. A masked lumberjack stalks anyone who enters his woods. Throughout the film we get a variety of people who come in contact with the killer and they don't live to regret it.
This French film from writer-director N.G. Mount never really makes too much sense and I'd argue the plot is extremely thin to say the least. I'm not sure what the budget was for this film but it was obviously extremely low and while the film isn't a good one, it's at least somewhat interesting because you have to give the young filmmaker credit for attempting to do something like this and it does deliver what most people are going to be wanting from it.
What would that be? The gore and violence level is quite high because the lack of plot means that people just randomly show up in front of the killer. More times than not he just chops them up without any questions asked and this includes children. The special effects certainly aren't the work of Tom Savini and more times than not we just see the aftermath but this is just a part of low-budget filmmaking and especially during the era of the slasher.
Believe it or not, Jess Franco regular Howard Vernon shows up at the end and that alone makes this worth sitting through at least once. The film's biggest problem is that the pacing is rather bad and it's quite long considering there's no real plot. The film has a hard time keeping the viewer's attention and the lack of sound (it's dubbed) is another issue.
Still, if you enjoy the weird and bizarre then MAD MUTILATOR is worth watching once.