Starring - Katie McKinley (Zed's Dead, Earth Girls are Sleazy), Sushii Xhyvette Holder (Naked Cannibal Campers, Death-Scort Service Part 2: The Naked Dead), and Cayt Feinics (Her Name Was Christa, Wrestlemassacre)
Release Date - 2022
Genre - Horror
Format - Bluray (Personal Collection) (Screener)
Rating (out of 5):
When I started my reviewing adventures, almost a decade now, I crossed paths with two filmmakers with a love for horror and exploitation. The pair created the YouTube channel The Sleaze Box where they would rate, rank, and discuss genre films and the actors and actresses often found in them. It was a solid channel while it lasted. Soon their ambitions outgrew their channel and they branched out into film with their movie Amerikan Holocaust. Chris Woods, the co-directed, had previously worked on other films prior to and continued to do so under The Sleaze Box since. Last year he announced a new film title Kill-Cam starring Katie McKinley and Sushii Xhyvette Holder and written by himself and Lixy Lestat. I was really interested in this one. I shared the crowd funding campaign on the site and kept on an eye on it until a few days ago when a copy of the film arrived for me to review. I didn't want to sleep on it so I made time for this one. I want to once again thank Chris for always supporting Horror Society!
The film follows an aging horror starlet named Samantha Styles (McKinley) who is struggling with finding jobs in recent years. Her failing career mixes with childhood trauma which results in her turning her love for filmmaking into a bloody new project where she has been picking up prostitutes and killing them on camera with the help of her ventriloquist doll. As the bodies stack up so does her ambition and she recruits a new starlet that has shot to fame to be in her snuff film with unexpected results.
Kill-Cam was a tribute to the "roughie" films of the 60s with The Sleaze Box twist. Honestly, I feel like Chris Woods has made the most Sleaze Boxiest movie to date. I absolutely loved it. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that I watched it a second time before I wrote this review. The acting in this one fits the film perfectly. A lot of the cast in this one are familiar faces from other Sleaze Box and GatorBlade films. McKinley is great as the film's lead. She beautiful, demented, and when she goes off the rails you really enjoy watching her act insane. It's also nice to see Cayt Feinics, Sushii, Ashley Lynn Caputo, and Lunathyst in another Sleaze Box release. I liked the characters they portrayed and they were all in for their performance. I'm all for Cayt Feinics getting more screen time and she has a decent size role in this one. The story for this one is a faux snuff inspired film with large amounts of nudity, blood, and style. This one doesn't look like your typical Sleaze Box release but all their stereotypical tropes are there. The film has a little more artistic approach to the cinematography which made the nudity even more enjoyable. I liked the spin on the aging star turning to snuff as a way to express herself and get even with an industry that glorifies youth and beauty. The doll angle added another layer to the story but didn't really overshadow it. The twist it delivers was effective and not what I was expecting. It was nicely written in and works very well with the story. My only complaint with the story is the flashbacks were a little excessive. One or two would have been enough to get the point across without having to stop the pacing of the film to show how disturbing Style's childhood truly was. Finally, the film wouldn't be a Sleaze Box release if it didn't have tons of blood and boobs. We get a lot of nudity, probably more than any other SB release, along with some fun kills. The effects worked for the kills and they fit the film very well but this is not the goriest film to come from the mind of Chris Woods. With that being said, it still satisfies even the most dedicated of gore-hounds. Overall, Kill-Cam is a new favorite indie film of mine and easily the best Sleaze Box release to date. It's sexy, crude, and brilliant. I hope that Woods and company keeps churning out films like this one in the future. I highly recommend this slice of sleazy gold!
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