There are a raft of trailers here (though none for the film itself). Palumbo is articulate about his film, even if one might find oneself at odds with his arguments.
The managing editor of Ultra Violent interviews writer/producer/director Nick Palumbo and star Garrett. On top of this, the image pulses in an out of focus. The result is that the film’s grain is even more apparent. A simple 1.85:1 non-anamorphic transfer (trumpeted as a “4×3 Letterbox” Bonus Feature) is just plain lazy. According to the films publicity materials, Murder-Set-Pieces features no fewer than 30 onscreen murders, and 55 gallons of stage blood were used during. But Lionsgate isn’t a hole-in-the-wall operation. Starring: Sven Garrett, Jade Risser, Valerie Barber, Gunnar Hansen, Cerina Vincent, Tony Todd. Jade senses that theres something evil about her sisters boyfriend, and when Charlotte disappears, Jade begins playing amateur detective, unaware of just how dangerous her quarry truly is. I even expect that from smaller companies. Now, I accept the fact that not all DVDs will be released in an anamorphic format.
At worst (such as in the scene where Tony Todd makes a cameo), it is completely incomprehensible.
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The music doesn’t sound bad, but that’s one quality is completely cancelled out by that the fact that the volume is so low, the movie is almost inaudible, and worst of all, the audio is constantly cutting in and out. So let’s say you’re going to check this out anyway, for reasons that escape me. The actual technical aspects of the film are quite slick, but that doesn’t make it watchable. The result is akin to a hardcore porn film with the sex removed. So when I said this is a collection of set pieces, I should have said “truncated” set pieces, and all the really nasty stuff is completely absent. The film originally ran 105 minutes, according to IMDB. This is a film that has stirred up quite a fuss among the critics, horror or otherwise, but viewers wanting to see what all the fuss is about won’t be enlightened by this release. Delving into rape, torture and slaughter, Murder Set Pieces is a voyeuristic splatter odyssey of blood, sex, brutality inside the neon decadence of Las Vegas. The acting is painful, as is the dialogue (what one can make out of it – more on this below). References to Nazi Germany and footage of 9/11 are tossed in to no very compelling purpose. The title is an apt description of the film: it is basically a collection of set pieces. There’s not a heck of a lot more to the plot than that. His girlfriend’s little sister (Jade Risser) thinks there’s something creepy about him, but isn’t listened to. The film stars Sven Garrett and features cameos from horror icons Gunnar Hansen (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), Cerina Vincent (Cabin Fever), and Tony Todd (Candyman). Sven Garrett plays the Photographer, who, when not exercising his profession of photographing beautiful women, is busy torturing and killing them. Murder-Set-Pieces is a 2004 American horror film written, produced, and directed by Nick Palumbo.