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Good old Trevor Barley (hiding behind an alias, Roman Nowicki). Clearly spotting a gap in the market, he made this, an erotic horror about a serial killer murdering young women. Even though it was all made in the UK, fearing the authorities, Barley set it in Poland and hired Polish/Russian actresses who speak in their native tongue in the film, thus it's dubbed and looks like it comes from Poland. Clever!

Anyway, the film itself is pretty unremarkable and technically inept - the killings are mysogny to a whole new level with buxom babes being stripped completely before being killed in cruel and unusual ways (one is raped by a knife!).

How anyone can compare this to the works of Fulci or other great Italian directors is beyond me - this is a very cheap and nasty film that is only passable as entertainment and just not that shocking. The ideas certainly are, by the way its made dilutes it so much that you end just watching the screen for the sake of it.

Best to borrow a friend's copy first and see what you think - you may enjoy it, but you may not. I for one, didn't really; it was viewable but could have been so much more with a little more time, effort and money.

"Fantom Kiler" is definitely the most sexually violent giallo ever made.It makes "The New York Ripper" and "Giallo a Venezia" look tame.The plot is simple:A small town is plagued with a series of brutal slayings of young women.The bodies are found naked and savagely mutilated.A misogynistic serial killer(Fantom Kiler)is unstoppable!The film is packed with the scenes of sexual violence,there's also plenty of sex and explicit nudity.Still the killings are very stylish and really sick-one victim is literally raped with the knife!The acting is pretty bad,but the ladies are really sexy.However I don't think this film is Polish at all.I'm from Poland and I know Polish horror genre very well,but I've never heard about Roman Nowicki before.In fact this sleazy series(yes,there are also "Fantom Kiler 2" and "Fantom Kiler 3")isn't even known in Poland.The funniest thing is that the Polish and Russian dialogue doesn't even match with English subtitles(actually some Polish lines were clearly stolen from various Polish films like "Nic Smiesznego" or "Tato").I'm fairly sure that this film was made in the UK and the credits are all pseudonyms-just like in "Last House on Dead End Street".This is surely very mysterious!All in all if you like erotic horror movies give this one a look.Recommended.

Horror and sex have always gone hand in hand with each other, but rarely does a film combine these two elements so blatantly as in Fantom Kiler, a British made movie hiding behind a fake Polish identity. Reputedly made by UK horror aficionado Trevor Barley (under the pseudonym Roman Nowicki), filmed in Poland, and starring a bevy of beautiful silicone enhanced strumpets (most likely Euro-porn-stars), this film is part giallo, part soft-core porn, part misogynistic slasher and part comedy.

The Fantom Kiler of the title is a mysterious mask-wearing psycho who is stalking and carving up hot nubile women, who prefers to attack his victims in a sexually violent manner. This generally means that he likes to get them butt nekkid first, and then proceed to stick sharp objects up their 'holiest of holies'.

With more bare top-quality female flesh on display than you can shake a stick at, and plenty of nasty killings (although, surprisingly, very little in the way of graphic gore), Fantom Kiler is a pretty poor film technically, but quite entertaining for fans of sleaze and exploitation.

Shot using digital cameras on rather cheap-looking sets (swathed in coloured light and smoke to give a suitably tacky vibe), this movie is hard to find offensive since all involved are obviously having a blast making it. There are several silly 'comical' interludes which break up the intensely violent scenes (including one humdinger which offers up a bizarre twist on the legend of Excalibur) and the whole affair is so OTT that one would have to be a real stick-in-the-mud to get in a lather about it.

There's been much confusion as to whether Fantom Kiler and its two sequels were shot in Poland or the UK. Well I can tell you that Fantom Kiler was made in England. It was directed by Trevor Barley. He shot it on digital video in his warehouse in Stoke Newington, London, England. He then edited it on his home PC and went to a friend of his, who works as a VT operator in London, to get a few thousand VHS copies done cheaply. You can actually see pictures of his friend adorning the walls in the train station scenes in Fantom Kiler 1 and 2 (actually shot in Barley's office). The women in the films are Russian models/porno actresses and many of Barley's friends and family helped with the production. His brother actually appears wearing a fake moustache. Barley himself can be seen in the outtakes section on the Fantom Kiler 2 DVD walking past the camera wearing a black jacket and hat.

Why the Polish connection? Well Mr Barley has a Polish girlfriend and visits there regularly. He took a few exterior shots of cars, the outside of police stations etc and edited them into the final film. He is also worried about the local constabulary taking an interest in the film and wants to maintain interest by adding an air of mystery and therefore generating more sales. In fact the first time most people heard about the film was in a fanzine called Sinerama which raved about the movie and contained a two page spread with pictures. No surprise then that the writer/editor of Sinerama was none other than Trevor Barley himself - promoting his own film! Most people with any connections in the UK horror scene know about his involvement, but strangely have kept quiet.

I can't imagine what the other reviewers were thinking. They're knocking a movie that is so very obviously meant to be violent porn, as if they were deceived by the cover showing a knife wielding slasher about to tear up a naked surgically-enhanced bimbo. Do you always look for nudity and cutlery on the covers of movies where you expect to see high drama? If you're looking for naked Polish chicks, not just naked but spread-eagled and panting naked, then this is it. If you want a little humor and a bit of slashing thrown in, hey, this movie has it. Let's not pretend we were expecting something else, you're not fooling anyone that way.

In it's own way, this movie has flashes of genius. The scene where the athletic contest is all about a janitor attempting to pull a wooden spoon from the hindquarters of a naked woman. That's not an event you'll see on the Summer Olympics! He only has one minute, will be get that spoon out? You have to wonder.

All the girls in this movie are naked, and that's a recommendation all by itself, to me anyway. I make no bones about it, when I'm watching a movie with a lurid cover like this I'm expecting to see some naked girls, and this film delivered. Who are these guys who pick up a movie like this and get offended by naked women? Who are these guys who get offended by naked women, period? Methinks thou doth protest too much.

There is some serious wit at work here, too. The excuses for girls to strip down are so transparent, so utterly without basis, that you just have to admire it. I only wish that I, a poor pretender to such genius, could come up with such obvious and successful reasons for women to disrobe. I bow before the director who accomplishes this and makes it look easy.

Is it degrading to women? Only if you want it to be. The women in this movie are so definitely having a good time, and so obviously enjoying their power to make men slobber and act like fools, that a good argument could be made that it's degrading to men. Don't bother arguing with me, though, because I like a little degradation. I'm proud to slobber foolishly at the altar of female beauty.

Jess Franco made pretty much the same movie, many times, and he is acknowledged to be a great film maker. I submit that Trevor Barley/Roman Nowicki is just as good, if not better. Fantom Kiler is certainly more coherent and better filmed than many of Franco's movies, if lacking the abundant charms of Lina Romay.

So if you're looking for a slasher flick with explicit nudity and some humorous situations, grab onto this, you won't be sorry.

The embarrassment of "Fantom Kiler" runs in a straight line from the poor viewer who has wasted his (or, God forbid, her) few sheckels to see the film right back to the pitiful director/producer who hides his shame behind a pseudonym and refuses to admit his cinematic crime by denying that he's the responsible party from his nickel & dime magazine shop in merry ol' England. But, then again, he has every reason to hide his shame because the film and its sequels are talentless and insipid. The target audiences won't find anything to keep their attention for more than a few seconds and the non-target audiences will be lucky if they just fall asleep. The plot about a psycho who stalks and kills women is hardly unique and the various naughty bits that have all been stolen from far better films or stories are amateurishly performed here. This British film hidden behind Polish names and a false claim of Polish origin is an broadsided insult to all Polish people and they deserve an apology from all Britons if the producer himself doesn't have the dignity to do it. "Fantom Kiler" is not watchable. It's not even barley watchable.

Fantom Kiler is a shot-on-video wanna-be modern Giallo where the storyline revolves around your stereotypical Giallo-type killer (black hat, trenchcoat, black leather gloves and mask) who stalks young sluts, stabs them numerous times and then vaginally mutilates them with a knife. Sounds great huh? All things considered it's an OK film - pretty low budget but it still looks decent compared to some of the other SOV films i've seen. There's LOTS of explicit (verging on hardcore) nudity and vag stabbin' which when coupled with an overall misogynistic attitude in general makes for some entertaining sleaze. A sub-plot involving a comedic relief team made up of a goofy slacker janitor (complete with fake mustache) and his equally lazy co-worker who work at the train station, hanging out leaning on their mops imagining what the women who walk by would look like naked. One scene involves the main janitor getting in a hot young assistant cleaner, one day out of the blue the young lady gets very aroused and asks him to force a wooden spoon deep into her @sshole handle first and then says she wants him to re-enact the King Arthur & Excalibur story and to try and wrench the spoon from her tight ass, it takes him a while he gets it out eventually. After a while it seems apparent that the janitor is the killer, as in one scene the killer f!cks one of the victims in the ass with a wooden mop handle and the janitor reads about the murders in the paper mumbling about how they got what they deserved.

Some scenes are blackly humorous in the totally over the top and immoral way the women are treated: the killing scenes are deliberately over-long, as the camera lingers pornographically on the scenes of brutal multiple stabbings, vaginal impalement's and knife rape (although there's actually very little graphic gore on screen, just plenty of blood). As the killer doesn't actually penetrate his victims in the usual way, the kill scenes could almost be considered the money shots. Sometimes the victim even gets off on the assault and subsequent knife-f!cking (the ultimate orgasm the killer calls it), reaching her climax as she dies. The female stars all look like second rate porn stars, with fake tits, well oiled bodies and bad acting.

A myth surrounding the film is that it is Polish and directed by one Roman Nowicki. In reality the film was shot in a warehouse in London, and then edited at home on his PC by Trevor Barley (aka Roman Nowicki). He hired Polish & Russian models / porn stars to act in it, dubbed the film into a mixture of Russian and Polish language then subtitled it back to English. Supposedly the cause for the deception was due to the directors concerns regarding legal trouble and distribution / censorship problems in the UK. He has also directed Fantom Kiler 2 & 3 under the same pseudonym.

This film completely fails as a Giallo. There's no suspense, convoluted storyline, or really any cinematic value at all.. but it does succeed in terms of pure exploitation and anti-PC offensiveness. 6/10

Women are frequent victims of violence in horror films, and therefore it's hardly surprising that horror cinema has had its fair share of criticisms of misogyny. The Europeans, especially, really know how to push the envelope. Graphic, sexualised violence and gore in movies like GIALLO A VENEZIA, THE NEW YORK RIPPER, DELIRIUM and THE KILLER IS AMONG US have been well documented. Some films went even further with their portrayals of violence against women. In movies such as LATE NIGHT TRAINS and HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK, women are frequently shown to *enjoy* sexual assault and rape. This outrageous "porno rape" lack of morality is very uncomfortable to watch.

FANTOM KILER, a modern giallo from Poland that has made a lot of waves in the horror scene, takes these concepts and goes far further than anyone ever has before. The result is a truly reprehensible, sickeningly misogynistic work that is impossible to defend. If ever there was a piece of celluloid that could be accused of being an incitement to rape, it is this.

Thin on story-line, FANTOM KILER is no more than a series of tableux of sexual violence. A man with a bandaged face stalks and murders beautiful women in highly stylised scenes, which utilise a lot of clever editing and modern digital effects. However, the truly shocking aspect of this film is the nature of the killings. Every female victim is beautiful and looks like a glamour model, and the set-ups to each murder scene are very reminiscent of those in porn loops. For example, a woman's car breaks down in the woods, and she gets lost, having her clothes slowly torn away by the trees and fences she has to climb over. The women are dressed and filmed in a worryingly provocative way. When the killings come, they invariably revolve around genital mutilation. Although no gory details are explicitly shown, it is VERY clear what is going on.

Despite the lack of gore, the killings are amongst the most shocking I've ever seen in a movie, mainly because it is obliquely suggested that the female victims ENJOY their assault. They act aroused, touch the killer affectionately and sensitively, and in some cases appear to achieve "orgasm" as they die. The dialogue backs this up too.

There is no way this film can be defended. It plays like a porn movie for potential killers. I have never seen such a film totally devoid of morality. Even in other highly contentious movies (such as FORCED ENTRY) there is at least criticism or an attempt to create repulsion at the scenes of violence being shown. Not so here. This eroticises misogyny and tries to make pornography out of sexual violence, with the "they all like it really" mentality taken as far as it could possibly go.

Literally unbelievable. This is the movie that censors, critics and feminists want to exist, and I hope they never get to see it.

I don't care what anyone else says - I dug FANTOM KILER. How can you not like a film where EVERY female in the film gets completely butt-nekkid??? And if you're a fan of sleazy, misogynistic, trash-cinema (don't lie - you love it...) - then how can you not like a film where nearly every "victim" is not only slashed-up, but also vaginally-impaled with various objects, including: knife, railroad-spike, broomstick, and one truly confusing scene (not related to slashing) where a girl gets a wooden spoon up the b-hole...beautiful stuff...

Anyway - on to "plot" - what plot? I have no idea - my copy is a Euro release with no English dubs/subs - all I could gather is some bandaged-wrap-faced freak who wears typical Italian giallo-killer garb, likes to sexually molest and stab up hot chicks and finishes up by rammin' stuff up their coot. That's enough for me. There seemed to be some comedic elements at play that I didn't exactly understand, and I think some sort of "police investigation" as well...

First off - for a low-budget film, FANTOM KILER actually has a lot of "style" and tries to make more out of itself than you would think possible given the obvious budget constraints. The editing is almost music-video-like in the kill-scenes, and is actually pretty cool. There are also scenes that for whatever reason appear to be intentionally "degraded" visually - not sure why - but if you watch it, you'll see what I mean. I like the fact that pretty much everything "plot-wise" that happens on screen is a set-up for some hot broad to lose her clothes. That, my friends, is EXCELLENT script-writing. The nudity is hot and heavy and is pretty explicit (even some bent-over cooch-n-bung shots) - though don't expect XXX-fare either. Lots of sexy, silicone-enhanced, shaved and oiled bodies on display - the best part being that these chicks are SO hot, that they are oiled UNDERNEATH their clothing. As far as the "controversy" as to the Director's true identity and whether the film was filmed in Poland or the UK - I couldn't care less. My only gripe is that with as much skin and sleaze as is on display here - there are times where it drags pretty badly, and even some of the kill set-ups are kinda dull - even with all the nude flesh on display. Also - they should've done more with the gore FX, as they're pretty weak and not nearly as sick and splattery as I would have preferred. Other than that - this is a pretty twisted-but-fun "giallo" (using the term in the broadest sense) that delivers heavily on the sleaze-meter. Can't wait to throw in FANTOM KILER 2 tonite...8.5/10

If you have any perception of "Fantom Kiler" being a sexually explicit slasher movie, then think again. What we have here is 82 minutes of cheap home made pornography.

There's no plot to speak of, just a succession of naked ladies. The entire thing is filmed as one massive masturbation fantasy. The few male roles are comedy toilet cleaners and police officers, who are dubbed with an audio quality that doesn't sound anything like the rest of the film's soundtrack! Oh yes, and the murders are fixated on the vagina and the anus. I can imagine the director getting into a froth of excitement over each drawn out scene of chase, stripping and sexually related death (all the women are directed to act as though sexually aroused during their murders).

There are a total of 4 sets - an office, a lobby, a bedroom and a forest (which looks to be about 5 meters square and indoors). All the women in the film become naked and oiled up (?), sometimes within mere seconds of appearing on the screen. And there are plenty of extremely explicit close ups. Some of the film is based around two toilet cleaners who imagine what all the women who pass by would look like naked...cue lots of footage of women naked. We also spend nearly 15 minutes watching one of the cleaners stick a wooden spoon up some girl's butt.

Take it from me, "Fantom Kiler" is pornography, nothing more. It's also not even Polish (which is what it's trying to look like, but they can't even do that convincingly). It's a film about naked women...everything else is an afterthought, in fact it's practically a waste of time trying to review it in the horror/thriller genre at all.

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I bought this DVD. I was watching too many straight to video flicks and needed a real nasty movie to bring my exploitation movie senses back to life. "Fantom Kiler" did not disappoint me.

"Fantom Kiler" is all about killing women. Some guy in a white mask and a big hat stabs a lot of naked women to death. The end. There's some vague attempt at giving this movie a plot with two detectives searching for the killer. "What do we know about the victims? They're all dead." But "Fantom Kiler" is really not concerned with such trivial things as plot. This is about naked women dying horribly. Mostly it's about naked women.

Where did they find these women? All of the victims in this movie have incredibly hard bodies. They get naked for no reason at all. Two janitors are staring at women coming off the train and keep imagining them naked. Therefore, they must get naked. If a women walks through the forest, her clothes fly off when a tree branch barely touches her. This movie excels in the nudity department.

"Fantom Kiler" is really not that violent. I'm not saying that to be a wiseguy. It's just that the violent scenes are filmed so ineptly that they don't have much of an impact. However, "Fantom Kiler" is outrageously sleazy. Naked women are stabbed in their various sexual organs with pure maniacal delight. As far as leering at naked murder victims, "Fantom Kiler" delivers the goods. If you're an exploitation movie fan, you should see this movie immediately.

Sleaze rating: 10/10 Violence rating: 6/10

SPOILERS INCLUDED

A nerdish, would be homage to the Italian giallo genre, with its titular killer modelled on that of Blood and Black Lace's. Fantom Kiler is less interesting as a film, and more for the farcical, labyrinthine manner the filmmakers have gone to protect their identities, and nationalities.

Purporting to be from Poland, Fantom Kiler was actually made anonymously in Britain by a fringe figure in the underground horror scene who runs a small mail order business from where he clandestinely sells the film and its virtually identical two sequels. Embarrassment, or more likely worry over censor and legal ramifications, has caused director 'Roman Nowicki' to disguise the real locale by shooting the film on phoney sets adorned with signs written in Polish, having the dialogue dubbed (badly) into Russian, and then subtitling everything back into its native English. Even so- do people in Poland really drive around in cars with British number plates? And quite what Poland has done to deserve being associated with a film like this remains to be seen.

The minimal plot concerns a series of killings that plague a small Polish village; the victims are all pretty women whose good looks and prima donna attitudes have offended the moronic, knuckle dragging male locals. With no clues to be found at the crime scenes the killer appears to be a supernatural figure that resurfaces every so many years. All this is explained to us via two nobody actors playing policemen (with a stunning lack of conviction) who chance upon naked dead bodies and offer crass commentary along the lines of 'she certainly left this world with more holes in her than when she arrived'. These scenes are brief and throwaway by nature, acting as little more than a hook to hang protracted scenes of starlets wandering around dry ice filled woodland sets and being stalked by the mysterious Fantom Kiler. By the time the women end up in the clutches of this masked murderer they've also ended up in a state of undress having lost their clothes to prickly bushes, doffed their tops in order to fix a fan belt, while in a surely unintentional homage to Lindsay Honey's video-era porno-horror film Death Shock one girl's encounter with a fence provides another clothes shredding excuse. Judging by his below the belt fixations director Nowicki appears to have a simultaneous career in the UK sex industry. As indeed do many of his female stars, ID's for low-level video porn actresses in their identical baby-oiled bodies and breast implants. Tellingly all these actresses also sport looks on their faces that suggest they wished they'd stuck to the day job. The gore effects in the film are minor, as if the budget couldn't stretch beyond spraying the actresses with a few bottles of Kensington Gore, but the killings are appalling nonetheless. In a dubious bit of psychology the victims are more aroused then terrified by the killer, rubbing their naked bodies up and down him like lap-dancers while he whispers sweet nothings in their ears about how they are about to be punished. For these scenarios butchery committed by knives, drills and a broom handle acts (often quite literally) as a substitute for hardcore scenes. Any semblance to credibility and logic goes the same way as the actresses' clothes when the film suggests a woman might receive a sexual thrill out of being stabbed in-between the legs.

Fantom Kiler would no doubt leave a bad taste in the mouth were it not so thoroughly dull and repetitious. As it is, constantly portraying women as bimbos or cold hearted tarts as well as offering a mouthpiece to sexist red-herring male characters tends to just come across as a desperate, attention grabbing way of courting controversy. Well meaning as many commentators seem in calling the film offensive and misogynistic, a line of thought suggests that by using the voice of outrage they're only falling into the trap of helping the filmmakers build up the film's myth. A myth that in no way the film deserves. Seemingly oblivious to the assembly line nature of endlessly trotting out female victims and sexually mutilating them a few moments later, Nowicki fails to inject much personality into the proceedings. He tries to compensate with an over indulgence for pop-video techniques; no shot it seems is really complete without being tarted up by optical trickery. The overall effect is simply numbing, leaving many scenes needlessly incomprehensible, while any potentially suspenseful or nasty moments tend to also get sabotaged by this flashy approach. Not the greatest of diagnosis for a film centred entirely around chases through the woods and ugly shock value.

A sub-plot involving a Benny Hill type imbecile caretaker fantasising about how various women would look without any clothes on, does provide some quirky moments, but -in case you're becoming curious- not remotely enough to make this worth watching.

I'm really not too sure if all of the hype and carry on about this movie is worth the energy. Previous reviews and comments I have read elsewhere claim this film is disturbing and degrading to women.

To me it wasn't quite hardcore porn, but then again a little more than softcore.

OK, yeah sure there were naked women getting killed, some quite explicitly, but why cant people see this movie for what it is. B grade underground porn with the intent to shock. Obviously someone has wanted to take a step away from the normalties of regular porn, and try to get a controversial reputation. He's also gone for the artistic approach, but that is more annoying that interesting. Also the picture on DVD goes from wide screen to full screen, to blurry etc, and the subtitles have a tendancy to disappear below the screen or inside the movie, also, the fonts are prone to change, and I've heard that the whole thing was made in England, dubbed (very poorly apparently) into Polish, and then given english subtitles.

The money I paid to see this movie probably cost more than what it cost to make it, so I guess I'm the sucker.

Part 2 is pretty much the same, though I think the director may have broken up with his girlfriend before making this one, because the dialogue is pretty resentful toward women.

All in all, dont expect much here, at best The Fantom Kiler trilogy are movies most suited to sitting around with the boys, some drinks, and having a laugh. Serious horror fans will hate them, and the raincoat brigade will want more.

Pretty women are being killed by being stabbed in their softest part. Repeat often. I had no idea what the story was about until I listened to the director's commentary. A town consists of ugly men and pretty women who want nothing to do with the guys so they turn to each other. That is pretty much it. One guy takes it personal. A lot of nudity including "tonsils." The killing/penetration scenes were not well done.

The film is in Polish with English subtitles...while the "making of" segments are all in English including the director's commentary. You might as well watch the film with the director's commentary "on" as it is in Polish and you can read the subs while he is talking, letting you know what the heck is going on. The girls in the film are basically all "dimes." They came from strip joints. Sort of like a European Bill Zebub production except the girls are not from Jersey strip joints. Enjoy the difference.

The film is soft-core porn. It is sleazy. The real title in "Fantom Kiler" with one "L." It is still pronounced "killer." This is all explained in the director's commentary during the credit run. I did like listening to "The Carpenters" in "the making of" segment while a large nude blonde was getting stabbed in the "tonsils." We've only just begun.

6 stars for the nudity and no other reason. They made 2 sequels.

Take a string of beautiful Polish women, all more than willing to go nude for their first film appearance; take the killer from Mario Bava's giallo masterpiece BLOOD AND BLACK LACE; take one amateur film-maker with aspirations to be Dario Argento and what you have is Roman Nowicki's abysmally bad FANTOM KILER. Never has a film been more offensive than this misogynistic rubbish, plot less drivel which is basically an excuse to showcase copious amounts of naked female flesh and indulge in Nowicki's perverse imaginings. Whilst the female cast members are undoubtedly attractive (obviously picked for their looks) none of them can act and their lack of skill shows throughout. The men are even worse, badly playing up stale caricatures of janitors and policemen. When half of the film's scenes consist of two such janitors imaging the women who pass through a railway station in the nude you know the people who made this are desperately reaching for ideas.

Supposedly "artistic" direction consists of too many closeups of eyeballs, a laughable phone flying out of one in one bad dream scene, lots of wiggling cameras, and an overload of predictable music to accompany the action. The murders are all depraved (and ALL require the female victim to lose her clothing) but the fake gore effects - little more than a few splashes of fake blood - counter any real horror which might have come from them. The average murder lasts for about twenty minutes (!) so there's no room for any plot in between - just a couple of scenes of policemen discussing the murders. And the Polish humour which proliferates this movie - including some bizarre antics involving a wooden spoon - is definitely something that doesn't translate well to a foreign audience. Incredibly, many sequels followed, which disturbingly shows that there is a market somewhere for this garbage and somebody actually gets a kick from this trash. All discerning fans should avoid it like the plague.

Might as well stop watching this movie after its first few minutes, they already spoil everything in there during its intro.

But seriously, I'm still really not sure what to think off this movie. This movie doesn't really fit into one particular genre but in this case that really isn't a good thing. It makes this movie a real mess, that is like a crossover between an Italian giallo, fantasy and soft-core porn. I'm definitely sure I would had liked this movie a whole lot better if it had picked one clear approach.

I guess in essence this movie above all remains soft-core porn because of all of its explicit nudity but even a soft-core production needs sex sequences in it, which this movie strangely enough doesn't have at all. I say strangely enough since it's a trashy European production, that has all of the right settings and female models in it, for it.

And as an horror/mystery or giallo, you just simply can't take this movie seriously enough. It's low budget and it features no real story or mystery in it. It still does feature some gore and other explicit sequences but strangely enough the movie doesn't shock at all with any of it.

What's also really a problem with the movie is that is starts to drag far too early on already. The movie is constantly repeating itself (just like its awful music) but what's even far more annoying are its actual killing sequences. They just go on and on forever with its build-up to it and even when someone gets finally stabbed it still manages to go on and on for the sequence to finally end.

I honestly really loved this movie its visual style and approach, which was also foremost the reason why I still kept on watching but I just feel that this was something that would had worked out way better for an 30 minutes short and not for an 90 minutes full length movie like this one.

Really a disappointment, considering all of its potential.

4/10

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Well, it's 9:30 am on a Friday morning, and I'm checking out this boobs 'n blood extravaganza. Life as usual. Watching this shortly after waking up, while munching away on my fibre-rich Sultana Bran, I had the disturbing realisation that this must be how Patrick Bateman starts his day. It's an unsettling thought as he's not really a figure I care to identify with. Not because of the yuppieness and misogyny mind you, but purely because he prefers Genesis post Peter Gabriel. That's just sick!

Fantom Kiler is about... a fantom guy killing people. Yeah, that's about the entirety of the "plot". An early scene sums up the movie fairly well - A woman is walking through the woods. Some branches tear her blouse so she takes it off. The same branches tug at her pony tail causing her long brown hair to cascade down over her heaving bosom. She soon encounters a fence and realises her skirt prevents her from climbing through, so naturally she removes that too. Now she's wandering around the wilderness in just a pair of high heels. Eventually when she gets stabbed to death by our fantom friend, rather than breaking down in soul-shattering fear and pain, she just sort of poses like a Playboy model covered in blood. The rest of the movie is much the same, with a handful of slightly pornographic moments scattered throughout.It's totally ridiculous, but hey if gratuitous nudity and violence is wrong, then I don't ever want to be right.

Surprisingly, director Roman Nowicki handles some of the sleaze relatively stylishly. In the above murder, there's a lovely shot of the moon reflecting off the blood-stained knife and when he wipes off the blood with his black-gloved hands, the image is replaced by the face of his victim reflected in the blade. It's a moment straight from a 70's giallo and adds a touch of, dare I say it, class to the proceedings. Actually, the movie could basically be described as a softcore porn giallo. There's some decent humour in there too. There's a moment where the fantom kiler offers one stark naked would-be victim some clothes because "The mosquitoes will be biting your beautiful breasts. And your tender ass." That's some quality dialogue right there!

Terrifying masterpiece this ain't, but if you're in that kind of mood where you don't give a crap about plot and just wanna see tons of titties and mindless violence then check this one out. I'm quite often in that mood, even at 9:30 am, so I rather enjoyed it.

Oh, and did I mention the close-up anus shots? I've never seen such anal detail in a movie before. If you're a connoisseur of the female anus, then this is THE movie for you.

This is a horrible, violent picture filled with naked women getting brutally murdered in ways no different than that in Friday the Thirteenth and its ilk.

In other words, there's nothing in it that hasn't been done a few million other times but this time it's with really hot nekkid Polish chicks.

Did I mention the nekkid bimbos? I didn't time it, but I suspect the women in this film spend more time naked than they do clothed. Yes. Naked. Really, really, naked. Then they are dead. D-E-A-D, dead. Or at least acting like it well enough that your by-now overloaded suspension of disbelief really doesn't feel like arguing.

I gave it a medium rating, because it's not exactly intellectually stimulating. It's entirely up to you if it's... ah.... "stimulating in any other way", shall we say?

In summary, this film is about Jason Voorhees taking out lots and lots of bare breasts. Big ones. Big, enhanced ones. Slashed, stabbed, impaled.

If that bugs you, well, gee -- don't watch it.

I'm amazed that some people are so negative towards the Fantom kiler series. I think Roman Nowicki is filling a gap in the market. Which is for a stylish, European style fantasy horror with erotic situations. All too often these days the horror world relies on the U.S for this kind of thing (New Jersey in fact). And basically all the films look the same, and seem to star the same starlets. Fantom Kiler has its own feel, a very different pacing. If it is shot on video it has a very nice look to it (Better than many films actually shot on film). If it is a low budget production then I doesn't look like one. Girls of that caliber don't come cheap, you know. And how many low budget films re-create an entire indoor woodland scene these days? I know of none. Even the music is a cut above the average with more than one catchy theme. I would much prefer to watch a Fantom Kiler than a Scrapbook or a Necrofiles.

If you are able to find a copy of this flick and thinking you are going to see the next big thing then you will be wrong even as this flick has a following and is already stated as 'cult'. The reason is rather simple. It was director Trevor Barley who thought to film a very erotic flick in the UK and knowing that it never would have a proper release or a fan base if it came out under a normal way. So he gave himself the nickname Roman Nowicki and hired Polish actors who spoke in their own language. A legend was born.

Is it all that bad as people say, I say no because it did remind me of Fulci for the erotic shots and Argento for the use of coloured lighting. And it was entertaining but do know it's a no-brainer were girls are only used to show it all. And that's exactly what it does. One girl do take of all her clothes just to help a broken car for example. And when another girl comes across she's being killed but the other chick never hear her scream. She's only ass up to view it all.

But what do makes it attracting is the way it was shot and edited and of course the girls. It's rather slow in some parts and do have stupid moments when the two guys are looking at the girls passing by but overall it's worth picking up if it wasn't for the wooden spoon scene. It's all just on the edge of porn, there's never any intercourse or things like that going on but we do see close-ups of the girls in all ways. One of the better nudie exploitations if we can call it that way. But what a clever marketing saying that this is Polish...

Gore 0,5/5 Nudity 5/5 Effects 1,5/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0,5/5

The Fantom Kiler series, to my knowledge, is THE series you want if you're looking for hot naked chicks getting killed. Because that's all this flick is. Whatever small filler there is to possibly create the illusion of a story is so damn meaningless it's ridiculous. A few of the reviewers here make mention of it being related to a giallo. Yeah, okay, who gives a crap. All I saw was an excuse to get hot polish babes butt nekkid, and then murdered. With such a sore excuse for a story, the movie overall is kind of tedious. But with high quality woman bending and bleeding all over the place, the movie does keep you pretty in tune with what's going on. Also, there were some bits of humor that were surprisingly silly, of course they were also incredibly sexual. Like I said earlier, if you're looking to see some hot chicks kick the bucket (who isn't), then give these flicks a shot. You probably won't regret it.

Fantom kiler (1998)

BOMB (out of 4)

Pointless, tasteless, disgusting, amateurish and just downright pathetic horror/sex film from Poland, which caused quite a stir when it hit the underground market several years ago. A man in a mask goes around slaughtering, mutilating and sexually assaulting women who he deems whores. The sexual violence in this film is quite disturbing and even more disturbing is the fact that several people actually get off on watching this type of stuff. I've always stood up for horror films and the mainstreams attack on the violence against women but this film here crosses about every single line and creates new lines just to cross them as well. We see women getting raped by knifes, tire irons and various other objects and for what? There's no story going on here, just various images of women being tortured. The other half of the film is nothing but nudity as the women, for no reason whatsoever, take their clothes off at every chance they get. A truly pathetic film and what's worse is there are two sequels.

Alright first off this film seemed to try and accomplish everything, humor, gore,and sex/nudity. However ultimately it only achieves one of it's goals and not very well. First off cause I know this is what you want to know, yes it's technically porn as a woman gets sodomized by a spoon and it's shown up close. I don't believe there was any actual penetration, although there could have been as this film goes back and forth to this sort of acid trip cheap look ,where it's difficult to make things out. The girls in Fantom Kiler are definitely good looking, and you see them in all there glory, but really there wasn't any overly hot scene to make this worth seeking out. This film boasts an annoying performance by a guy dressed as Charlie Chaplin, who nobody would want to see having sex, and wasn't funny for a second. This is no giallo, and the horror is really as tedious and inept as it comes. Fantom Kiler's ultimate sin, is teasing a lesbian scene between two beautiful women, and not following through with it. Therefore I have to rate this film a below average four, which it only gets for a couple good looking women. Stick with Seduction Cinema for your soft core fix, or rent an actual hardcore porn, that doesn't try to slap on a crappy stalker storyline that doesn't fit the film.