FANTOM KILER 3 (2003)

You sure know when your watching a Roman Nowicki film. Skip past the obvious fact that it contains a gaggle of naked women being butchered in ingenious ways, and you are left with very little else other than the movies presentation and story. The story in this third and presumably final episode in the Fantom Kiler series again see's the women of a small town get brutally punished for their 'slutty' behavior by a mysterious masked killer. That's pretty much it for the plot and you could definitely describe this one as being just as shallow as the other two, but the production values and some other key scenes have a lot more in store.

First we have the now familiar primary coloured lighting effect that is perhaps a little less obvious here than in the previous efforts but still adds an element of quality during some pretty seedy segments. The opening credits are very stylish in a subtle kind of way adding tension to the main shot which shows an attractive girl oiling her naked body whilst writhing on the hood of her car?!?!?

The selling point for this series has always been it's combination of nudity and murder mixing the two into a dangerous sexually stimulating cocktail. This is still the case here but seems to be a more diluted affair than previously experienced. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of good looking ladies that get buck naked for you but the death scenes are just running a little low on gas. There is an exception to this however during a prolonged scene in a garage (see below).

Highs

When a vulnerable women enters a garage asking for her broken down car to be repaired, she is humiliated and stripped of her dignity. But the woman finally snaps, picking up the nearest thing to her as a weapon, she goes berserk. The weapon in question is a chainsaw and she carves her way to revenge in what has to rate as one of the best sequences of the series.

Lows

Never really gets fully warmed up and the story is just too similar.

Score

6 / 10