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Originally, Daniel (Robert A. Burns) was arrested for driving his car with "just" one dead body in the trunk - which is enough to come across as mighty suspicious at least. But when he's questioned, he admits to over 200 murders - but this number is only an estimate as he never kept record of the people, mostly women, he killed, and also his recollection often doesn't go beyond what he could have read in the newspapers. That said, there are a few bodies he helps to unearth the police didn't have any idea about yet. However, his homicidal tendencies first emerged when his disabled war veteran father (Bill Boyd) killed himself over the openly slutty behaviour of his mother (Jane K. Smith), which explains his hatred towards women and thus his predilection for killing them. And eventually, he even found a trusted sidekick in his co-worker at a moving company Moon (Dennis Hill) and even Moon's psychopath sister Molly (Sidney Brammer). However, above everything, Molly's a woman, too ...

Very loosely based on serial killer Henry Lee Lucas (on whom about a legion of movies have been based in the 1980s), one can't help but notice the similarities of Confessions of a Serial Killer to Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer from the following year, as both movies didn't only take Lucas's killing spree as their blueprint but also stuck to the perspective of the killer throughout and were rather unapologetic about it. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer of course soon became a cult favourite while Confessions of a Serial Killer didn't create more than a ripple in serial killer movie history - and that's partly due of course to the rather botched up release history that saw it see the light of day stateside only in the wake of Silence of the Lambs some 6 or so years past its completion. The other reason for the film's failure might also be what makes it so good though, its grindhouse look and feel, its sensationalist and thus exploitative approach, in short the film's in-your-face attitude, which from today's point of view at least is nothing short of charming.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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