1/10
One of the worst films I've ever seen, absolute crap.
13 December 2005
Warning: Spoilers
My Sweet Killer tells the story of a man named Charlie Cavenaugh (Kirk Harris who also wrote this crap), Charlie is an ex mental patient who now lives in a local community, has a decent job but has to report to Dr. Resner (Jonathon Chaus) every once in a while. During their latest little chat Charlie tells Resner that he likes & talks with Pasqua (Stephanie Knight), the attractive woman who used to live in his flat before him, live there that is until she committed suicide. Clearly this 'care in the community' crap isn't working too well. Anyway, a new guy at work named Dave 'Buck' Bucker (co-producer Jack Rubio) tries to befriend Charlie but doesn't get very far as Charlie hardly ever says anything, probably because he's always doped up. Erm, to be honest I'm struggling now as not much else actually happens. Eventually Charlie loses it completely & kills a couple of drug dealers, Quote (associate producer Art Chudabala) & Jerry (Luis Guizar) who appear to live in his doorway & that's just about it, look next to nothing even remotely interesting happens in My Sweet Killer & I can't believe I gave it such a detailed plot synopsis...

Co-executive produced & directed by Justin Dossetti I hated My Swwet Killer with a passion. The script by star Harris is so slow & boring that I actually fell asleep watching it (don't worry I caught up on what I had missed), the film tries to raise certain issues like the treatment of the mentally ill, drug addiction, being on time for work(!) & isolation but none of these things have any impact in such an awful script & lame film. It has no discernible story or narrative, quite simply virtually nothing happens, well nothing that could be even remotely called entertainment & the whole purpose of a film is to entertain, right? I honestly don't know what to say as very little happens, the character's are awful with Charlie spending most of the film walking around ignoring everyone. You know, this really is worth mentioning again as I sat there waiting for something to happen, for Charlie to completely lose it & go on a killing spree or just anything to alleviate the tedium, unfortunately I'd still be sat there now if not for the fact that I had more fun things to do, like go to work. My Sweet Killer is the absolute pits, it has no entertainment value whatsoever & don't rent this atrocity out thinking that it is a horror film because it most certainly isn't.

Director Dossetti brings absolutely nothing to the film, no style, no visual flair, tension, atmosphere or excitement. My Sweet Killer is a real chore to sit through, I mean really dull & frustrating. The music was rubbish, the cheap shot on videotape cinematography was below that of the average soap-opera & is that meant to be a Doctor's surgery? The production values are real bottom-of-the-barrel stuff all round, yes I know it's an Indie film & probably had a minuscule budget but that doesn't excuse it from being total crap, does it? Forget about any violence or gore as only two people die during it's excruciatingly long 80 odd minutes, a few splashes of blood & it's most graphic scene when someone is killed by being hit over the back of their head with a frying pan! The acting is uniformly awful from everyone involved.

I hated every painful second of My Sweet Killer, it is one of the few films that I can honestly say was totally devoid of any sort of entertainment value whatsoever, harsh but true I'm afraid. One more thing, forget about the good sounding & very, very generous IMDb score, those users who voted My Sweet Killer a 9 or 10 (& there are a suspiciously high amount of them) are obviously masochists. Avoid at all costs & don't say you weren't warned!
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