Prior to the first time I was to see this film I was thinking I am probably going to hate this movie and dismiss it as just another early 80s slasher. But, once getting into the film I was surprised and enjoyed it. This film was a video nasty in the UK due to the kill of the first victim and child abuse.
A young man named Donny Kohler (Dan Grimaldi) has a fascination with fire due to the abuses he undertook as a child, but just as important has a relationship with his dead mother and in turn needs to pile up victims using his flamethrower and have ongoing relationships with them as well.
Really owes a lot to Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO, but does well even though some of the material was pulled straight from that film. Grimaldi is good in his off-centre performance and the film really rests on his shoulders. That being said some of the secondary characters' performances ain't that great.
A young man named Donny Kohler (Dan Grimaldi) has a fascination with fire due to the abuses he undertook as a child, but just as important has a relationship with his dead mother and in turn needs to pile up victims using his flamethrower and have ongoing relationships with them as well.
Really owes a lot to Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO, but does well even though some of the material was pulled straight from that film. Grimaldi is good in his off-centre performance and the film really rests on his shoulders. That being said some of the secondary characters' performances ain't that great.