CineNiche

Dear Mr. Gacey Svetozar Ristovski's adaptation of Jason Moss' superb book The Last Victim plays out like a made-for-TV movie.  Jason Moss was a young eager student who developed a theory to gain unfettered access to the mind of a serial killer by portraying himself as their perfect victim.  He wrote to Charles Manson , Jeffrey Dahmer , Henry Lee Lucas , Richard Ramirez , and of course John Wayne Gacy .  The correspondences between himself and these monsters led Moss to his darkest place.  His desire to become an FBI profiler was eventually met with open arms and his research provided a deeper understanding of the psyche of these killers.  Unfortunately this film really doesn't dive into the complete story of Jason Moss, instead it keeps to a simple plot of being driven mad by his encounters with Gacey.  William Foresyth plays Gacey extremely well and the film delivers most of Gacey's brilliance in manipulation: which did cause the real Moss ...

"I'm so scared my asshole is puckering... Spooky, Spooky." Cornered! is a study in low budget horror production.  We have a total of eight despicable characters with three locations to choose from.  Among the eight is the killer who gives us a medium amount of gore, decent jump scares, and creative murders.  Even though the production budget was tight Daniel Maze did a great job on his first feature.  He wrote and directed a story that may have cliches but overall the atmosphere he created with his characters and the location he tapped into something different. Mona is a phone sex operator addicted to ice cream, Jess is the chain smoking whore who's just trying to survive, Steven is the alcoholic owner of a run down liquor store, Donny is an obese employee with an addiction to doughnuts, and Jimmy (James Duval from The Doom Generation ) is Steven's nephew who has just quit heroin cold turkey.  Put these five together in an inescapable li...