Spine

"Spine" is a very low budget slasher flick that appears to have been shot on video. The sound is noteworthy in that it is especially bad. Though I am willing to take the low tech approach into account, this film is, frankly, uninspired and covers ground that has already been dealt with by innumerable films. Worse, this makes the film moderately dull which is perhaps the greatest fault any motion picture can have. Despite all of its warts, I did appreciate some of the performances to some extent, taking into account of course the pocket change available to recruit a cast.

I recall this movie when it first came out. It was one of the worst movies I have ever seen, terrible plot and terrible acting made it one of the funniest movies I have ever seen as well. If anyone knows how I might obtain a copy of this movie, drop me a line. I collect only the worst movies ever made. Thanks

This is a very poorly made film, with no plot and horrible acting. That being said, if you like to see helpless women, bound, gagged, and violated,(RATED R OF COURSE) this is a fine movie. Not that I'm into that, but I enjoyed the movie. I'd rank it right up there with BLOOD SUCKING FREAKS, and movies along those lines, or the XXX rated movies of the ZFX studio, though they are very hard core. Don't expect too much from this one though, because as I said this is a very poorly made movie. You will be using the fast forward botton a lot in this one. The villain is ridiculous but the girls are very pretty and do look nice all tied up and helpless,like I said (NOT THAT I"M INTO THAT OR ANYTHING)!!!

Vicious and deranged psycho Lawrence Aston (a creepy and convincing portrayal by R. Eric Husley) stalks nurses and removes their spines after killing them. Ashton breaks into a house where two women reside while the police try to find and stop him.

Writers/directors John Howard and Justin Simmonds relate the absorbing story at a steady pace, ground the premise in a believable workaday reality (for example, we see the cops on the case using a primitive 80's computer to search for Ashton), maintain a grimly serious tone throughout, take time to develop the two nurse characters as people the viewer can really care about, deliver a decent amount of gore (although this film could have gone much farther in this particular department), and generate a good deal of tension that reaches a nerve-rattling fever pitch in the harrowing last third. Moreover, Janus Blythe of The Hills Have Eyes fame and Lise Romanoff both do solid and credible work as the hapless lasses Ashton singles out as deserving of his lethal wrath. The rough shot-on-video cinematography provides a suitably scroungy look. Don Chilcott's flesh-crawling score does the shuddery ooga-booga trick. Alas, the filmmakers punk out on the gratuitous nudity angle even though one gal does take a shower. No lost classic, but enjoyable enough for fans of obscure micro-budget fright fare.

"Spine" is what happens when you combine a video camera, a free weekend and two weeks of acting lessons. It's pathetic, and the video quality brings that point home. Pathetic movie shot on pathetic video. Not film, video. Even awful films like "Murderlust" were shot on film, but not "Spine". Basically a guy stalks and kills nurses but you don't see a lot of that in the beginning, only hear that it's happened. The cops are clueless (of course), probably because all their scenes appear to be filmed in an office building rather than a police station. If real police operated this way, I fear for the nation. So the villain, who looks kind of like an evil Jim Henson with aviator sunglasses, terrorizes two women in their home while dramatically posing and spouting off awful dialogue. Does this sound like an interesting, fun movie? It isn't. It isn't even fun to laugh at because there's no real action, mostly just talking and menacing gestures.