Murder-Set-Pieces Reviews

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I do love films bloody horror movies and exploitation flicks with sex and ultra violence. Movies like "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Clockwork Orange", "Evil Dead" and "Cannibal Holocaust" are all classic examples of horrifying movies that are well worth watching. And then there is "Murder-Set-Pieces", a exploitation slasher filled with sex, gore, violence and death all being turned up to 11 while the story is a big fat zero. "Murder-Set-Pieces" is badly directed (everything is very dark), horribly acted (except for Tony Todd who is doing a cameo I don't see anyone else in this having a movie career going for them) and there is no storyline to follow. The entire movie just follows a manic serial killer called 'The Photographer' (Sven Garrett) fucking and killing women. And scene by scene is him either fucking or killing someone, nothing more. If it wasn't for the 'cool' cameos by horror icons such as Tony Todd ("Candyman"), Gunnar Hansen and Edwin Neal (both from "Texas Chainsaw Massacre") and some 'cool' gore effects I would give this movie a even lower rating, but still this is a terrible movie that is nothing but a waste of time.

One of those films that I've always heard of, but had never got around to seeing just because of the way that the people behind the production chose to promote it, essentially spamming horror movie message boards about how great the film was, how excited they were for it to come out, but never really admitting that they were a part of the film's street-team.

That said, this was awful, pretentious wankery as a guy just kills and wanders around Vegas, then kills some more, it's pretty fucking pointless.

Pass, unless your morbid curiosity gets the better of you.

I love deranged films, but this movie fell short of being a great one. The opening was awesome and gave slight chills, but as the movie progressed it became duller by the minute.

Next to Nekromantik, this is the worst so-called "movie" of all time.

Horrendously bad, not in terms of gore though.

See the unrated director's cut version.

Rated one of the most violent films ever by Total Film, yes it might well be, trouble is its awful with non existent plot, production values and acting .Risible.

I came across this film on many lists of 'shocking' and 'most disturbing' horror movies, but I've seen better serial killer movies with less blood. Plus, it was a bit artsy-fartsy, and the acting is just awful for the kind of movie it's trying to be. It was mildly entertaining.

" I'm looking for a snuff film, called The Nutbag." lol.

Tedious, overly bloody, badly written & horribly acted, it's like a very bad 70's slasher drive-in flick. The trailer is more interesting then the movie, believe me.

By promoting itself as the most shocking, grotesque, controversial, etc. film of all time, and being banned from several film labs and the UK (unsurprisingly), it was never going to live up to the hype, even in its uncut form. Essentially a big-budget slasher B-movie, M-S-P is very well made and everything that went into it is astounding but the finished product fails to deliver on any level, especially its shock value (apart from one scene which went way too far).

Although the acting is atrocious, and the story doesn't flow that well, Murder-Set-Pieces is still really entertaining. I can't say it's a great movie, but I liked it a lot. The violence was awesome, and the message behind it will definitely make you think... if you can understand German. Yeah, here's the reason everybody on this page is saying the movie didn't make sense. This film is in English, but at times the photographer will speak German. And it's ONLY when he's speaking German that his actions and story are explained. I enjoyed it, because I can understand German.
Murder-Set-Pieces is a commentary on the Nazis' trivialization of sex and childbirth, resulting in a neglected child who grew up hating his mother and all women like her. Unless you don't understand German, then it's just gory fun... with bad acting.

A mess from beginning to end

Just a load of sex, blood and gore

See the unrated director's cut version.

I can't do it...I can't even go over the plot to this horrifying excuse for a movie without fear of my teeth trying to leave my mouth and eat my brain. It's torture porn at its worst and that's saying something with terrible movies like Hostel carrying that badge. It's so redundant and non-sensical that it ignores real life to exist in its own little world of killing and porn. Why do we never see one police officer in this movie investigating these killings? Is he killing in the one state that just happens to not have a police force? Good thing, since the idiot decided to wear no extra clothing whatsoever to hide his DNA and fingerprints from being found in EVERY CRIME SCENE HE CREATED! He even left one corpse lying in the middle of a public restroom and later that night, the person was declared MISSING! No one went into a public restroom for 12 hours?! Don't watch it, don't look at it, just pretend it's not there and maybe this garbage will one day go away.

If anyone considers this film worth a viewing then please let me know. So far I have not found anyone that says it is.

HORRIBLE. God awful "acting," no character depth, no plot...all the gore in the world couldn't make up for how BAD it is. The main character comes across as a big, stupid German...in the same vein as Arnold...which takes away any creepiness he MAY have had, if he knew how to act. That's the problem with these "shocker" horror films...they focus only on the gore and forget that in order for someone to want to sit through it it has to have some other sustenance. I turned it off a little over halfway through, and that's sacrilege to me. I just couldn't bear it any longer. Don't waste your time or your money.

Make sure you are viewing the unrated version and not the "R" rated version.