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My sincerest condolences to anyone who has had the misfortune of watching this film. This is hands down one of the worst films to ever make it to video stores. I only hope you or your loved ones did not make the mistake of watching this movie alone -- it could easily be suicide. However, if you and your friends have a sadistic passion for seeing horrible movies, this should be at the top of your to do list. My favorite scenes include stock footage of a plane taking off (when in fact the plane should be landing), using a caged bird as a projectile, throwing a woman by her breast, and don't even get me started on the ending... Just amazingly awful. Plus, did I mention there are no mechanics or "satanics" in this whole film? Hahaha.

I am not sure whether I ever watched this film or not but based on the comments by other users of this Site, It seems I watched 20 Years ago here in Somalia. based on my vague memories of the Film, the Films ends with Lee Van Cleef shooting a woman dead as she climbs the ladder of a departing plane ( perhaps contributors of the comments on this Site which I have just read will confirm whether there is a scene like this ).

There is another scene where Lee Van Cleef drives a car very fast towards a man and a woman having sex on the beach with the intention of killing both of them and in another scene a man shoots a woman in her private organ ( Corch ) after having sex with her. will other Readers confirm that this Aka the Pefect Killer or is it another film that I am explaining.

Overall the film is watchable as it is full lots of crime and funny scenes. I would recommend it to any one with an appetite for such movies Mustafa

You may see this film under the title "Satanic Mechanic" I suggest to anyone who likes great bad films to view this little gem. The montage is absolutely insane. Fantastic dialogue. Porkchop sideburns. This film has it all.

Betrayed by his girl and best friend, thief Harry Chapman (Lee Van Cleef) takes the fall for a racetrack robbery. While in prison, he is offered a chance to participate in an escape plan. What he doesn't know is that once he is on the outside, the group responsible for the prison break has Harry in their debt and they use him as a hit-man. Naturally, he grows tired of the job and splits because he is hellbent on getting revenge on the former partners. So the mob puts young hit-man Luc (Robert Widmark) on Harry's trail.

It is kind of surprising that Van Cleef didn't do more Italian crime flicks in the 70s. To my knowledge, he only did this, MEAN FRANK AND CRAZY TONY (aka ESCAPE FROM DEATH ROW), and THE SQUEEZE. As it stands, this one is just kinda average. It doesn't really pick up until the last third. However, there are some great stand alone scenes like an attack by razor-wielding cross dressers (shades of the previous year's STRANGE SHADOWS IN AN EMPTY ROOM) and the final beach showdown. The craziest thing is how every woman seems to find Van Cleef - sporting a really bad rug - to be hot. Tita Barker (aka Carmen Cervera) is the love interest and John Ireland is Harry's confidant. Director Mario Siciliano previously worked with Widmark (aka Alberto Dell'Acqua) on some SARTANA westerns and also did the odd horror flick EVIL EYE (1975).

Even though the copy of this film I watched was a blurred VHS pan and scan version, the wig on the Lee Van Cleef's head still kind of looked like a stamped badger.

The Perfect Killer starts off with Van Cleef getting ditched during a heist by his girlfriend Kristy, who dumps him for his mate Jack, then bails on him as he's caught by the police. In jail, some guy arranges for him to escape but only if he agrees to kill some people for a shady organisation. This he does, until he discovers that the last victim is the guy who sprung him from jail. He let's the guy escape, but it's too late as hot shot killer Luke (a rare starring role from Alberto Dell'Acqua) finishes the job on behalf of the organisation. This starts a bitter battle between the two men which will results in murder and mayhem.

That's only the beginning of the film, which is a shame because what follows really starts to drag. Van Cleef is given another job by a transvestite who sends him across the Med to kill a mystery person, but not before Luke shows up at the club to kill Lee and gets into a transvestite punch up which is no patch on the transvestite punch up that features in Strange Shadows in an Empty Room, a scene that surely won some award for transvestite punch-ups in 1976. When Lee gets to whatever country he's supposed to go to, he finds out, as you would expect, that his target is his old girlfriend Kirsty.

This is what kills this film pacing wise. Kirsty is still hooked up with Jack, but she's also having an affair with a young guy and plans on killing Jack to get insurance money off of non-chicken eating insurance guy Fernando Sancho, but then she's not really doing that because what she's doing is duping the young guy out of the money by pretending Jack is dead, and with the appearance of Van Cleef things get even more complicated as she then plans on running off with him, and when Luke arrives, he figures on killing everyone and taking the money. In addition, John Ireland turns up in a pointless cameo. Someone does throw a golden pheasant at him so it wasn't a total loss.

Things do pick up near the end when Luke appears to turn psychotic and starts murdering everyone, starting with that horny fashion model who has been stalking Cleef, but in general I just wasn't feeling it with this one. Lee Van Cleef didn't quite look like he was feeling it either to be honest, so it's Alberto Dell'Acqua who is the only actor with any life in him. Fernando Sancho is only in the film a few minutes so don't excited about that either.