The city of Antwerp is being terrorized by a serial killer. When the killer discovers one of his victims is seeing a psychiatrist to overcome her trauma, he goes after her.The city of Antwerp is being terrorized by a serial killer. When the killer discovers one of his victims is seeing a psychiatrist to overcome her trauma, he goes after her.The city of Antwerp is being terrorized by a serial killer. When the killer discovers one of his victims is seeing a psychiatrist to overcome her trauma, he goes after her.
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- TriviaMusic from Halloween 3 and The Thing is used in some scenes. Chariot Of Pumpkins is used for the opening and end credits.
- GoofsOn the news, the anchorman informs the viewers that 4 murders have already taken place. In the next scene, the cop tells the woman they are waiting for the 4th murder.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Forgotten Scares: An In-depth Look at Flemish Horror Cinema (2016)
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Movie manages to unity people: everyone agrees this is really really awful
It's not easy to find information on The Antwerp Killer. Maybe all those involved hoped memories of this film would slowly fade away. Bad luck for them as I managed to find a copy of a film most video stores don't (want to) own. Ever since I found it, many have either desperately asked me to lend it to them (some even reviewed it after viewing - see elsewhere on this page) or even more desperately begged me never to show it. At last another movie where everyone agrees: it's hard to find a bigger turkey. And to prove that point in case you're one of the millions who never saw the film, here are some examples:
* The movie opens with a girl who's stabbed by the killer. As the girl (it would be a stretch to call her 'actress') isn't really stabbed, fake blood is needed to shoot this scene. The fake blood is hidden in a small bag under her blouse and we see her press on her stomach to get the blood out of the bag. Okay, but what about the blood dripping out of her mouth? After all the scene was shot in a pretty dark alley. Oh, no problem, the 'actress' will just turn her head to the camera so we can enjoy the fake blood more. Splendid thinking there!
* In the second scene (the one after the credits - no use speaking of opening or end credits as the same credits are used in the beginning and end of the movie) the young man who discovered the body is arrested for doing something highly suspicious: apparently the people of Antwerp weren't allowed to "walk in dark streets" at night. See, movies always teach you something.
* Especially if a movie have scenes from news bulletins. But because this movie is evidently no-budget, this scene had to be faked and instead we can watch the heroine watch the news. The camera is placed behind the television set and all we see is her watching the news. All we hear is an actor pretending to be a news journalist. But how can this same actor pretend to be the correspondent too (let's not spend our budget on two voice-over actors if one can do the trick)? I'll tell you: by pinching his nose while he's speaking. The effect is staggering and so are the facts: the murdered girl in the news bulletin appears to be 22 in the beginning of the bulletin and 24 at the end. Did anyone ever check the script, I wonder.
* To protect our heroine from the Antwerp Killer, the police decide to lock up her in jail for a few nights. She doesn't like the idea and tries to run away, which leads to possibly the only movie chase INSIDE a police building. That's right, she runs around chairs and tables. Exciting is one description, mind-boggling another.
* There are plenty of horrible but laughable scenes left in this movie, even if it only lasts 51 minutes. And the only reason they got to 51 minutes was by inserting a dream sequence of 7 minutes (using almost all the footage from earlier and later in the movie) and filming 3 minutes of roofs and buildings in Antwerp. Why? To show the killer is somewhere out there. Oh, in that case it makes sense. Ermm.
* One more example of another scene that should be added to movie history is the scene at the docks. Before this scene the police officer is on the phone, talking to his superior and asks if the superior had heard about the 'tip off'. Apparently mobsters were going to sell drugs at the docks. Was the officer informed by underground connections? Nope, he read it on page 1 of the paper. Oh, the good old times when newspapers still told you where mobsters would meet! Then it's time for the scene at the docks. We see how something goes wrong with the transaction (one mobster simply drops the suitcase) and how smooth mobsters are at pulling their guns (one only needed 3 attempts).
"The Antwerp Killer"... let's start lobbying for a DVD release.
* The movie opens with a girl who's stabbed by the killer. As the girl (it would be a stretch to call her 'actress') isn't really stabbed, fake blood is needed to shoot this scene. The fake blood is hidden in a small bag under her blouse and we see her press on her stomach to get the blood out of the bag. Okay, but what about the blood dripping out of her mouth? After all the scene was shot in a pretty dark alley. Oh, no problem, the 'actress' will just turn her head to the camera so we can enjoy the fake blood more. Splendid thinking there!
* In the second scene (the one after the credits - no use speaking of opening or end credits as the same credits are used in the beginning and end of the movie) the young man who discovered the body is arrested for doing something highly suspicious: apparently the people of Antwerp weren't allowed to "walk in dark streets" at night. See, movies always teach you something.
* Especially if a movie have scenes from news bulletins. But because this movie is evidently no-budget, this scene had to be faked and instead we can watch the heroine watch the news. The camera is placed behind the television set and all we see is her watching the news. All we hear is an actor pretending to be a news journalist. But how can this same actor pretend to be the correspondent too (let's not spend our budget on two voice-over actors if one can do the trick)? I'll tell you: by pinching his nose while he's speaking. The effect is staggering and so are the facts: the murdered girl in the news bulletin appears to be 22 in the beginning of the bulletin and 24 at the end. Did anyone ever check the script, I wonder.
* To protect our heroine from the Antwerp Killer, the police decide to lock up her in jail for a few nights. She doesn't like the idea and tries to run away, which leads to possibly the only movie chase INSIDE a police building. That's right, she runs around chairs and tables. Exciting is one description, mind-boggling another.
* There are plenty of horrible but laughable scenes left in this movie, even if it only lasts 51 minutes. And the only reason they got to 51 minutes was by inserting a dream sequence of 7 minutes (using almost all the footage from earlier and later in the movie) and filming 3 minutes of roofs and buildings in Antwerp. Why? To show the killer is somewhere out there. Oh, in that case it makes sense. Ermm.
* One more example of another scene that should be added to movie history is the scene at the docks. Before this scene the police officer is on the phone, talking to his superior and asks if the superior had heard about the 'tip off'. Apparently mobsters were going to sell drugs at the docks. Was the officer informed by underground connections? Nope, he read it on page 1 of the paper. Oh, the good old times when newspapers still told you where mobsters would meet! Then it's time for the scene at the docks. We see how something goes wrong with the transaction (one mobster simply drops the suitcase) and how smooth mobsters are at pulling their guns (one only needed 3 attempts).
"The Antwerp Killer"... let's start lobbying for a DVD release.
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