Review of San Franpsycho

The title and cover instantly got my attention. I managed to find the trailer on you-tube and it looked very interesting. Off I went to Hollywood video and I found the last copy. They had two rows for it and they were all gone, I guess other people are curious about it as well. Anyhow, I was pleasantly surprised. A decent score, acting, storyline and ending that catches you by surprise. These people don't take the typical Hollywood approach with this ending. The movie starts off with one of the craziest looking hulking man I have ever seen strangling a woman and suffocating her with a bag. As she slowly succumbs to her death we see the beautiful City By The Bay in the background. The story continues as two detectives and a priest try to stop the sadistic killer who is stalking a well known reporter. He sends her mysterious, religious themed letters that try and explain his madness. After a few Hitchcockian thrills and Halloweenish kills we find ourselves in the climactic end. I won't tell you who lives and who doesn't but I didn't see it coming. This isn't one of those cheesy by the dozen low budget horrors you find at most stores these days. This is a well crafted, beautifully shot bloody thriller of a movie. And that's my two cents.