The Urge to Kill

THE URGE TO KILL is a bargain basement slice of trash from Derek Ford, the sexploitation director known for fare such as THE WIFE SWAPPERS and KEEP IT UP, JACK. For his final movie he unwisely decided on this supernatural slasher in which a record executive's high-tech computer system goes all H. A. L. And begins bumping off his conquests. Never released and shot on video, this is a cheap and silly little effort mainly designed to showcase nudity from a succession of blonde bimbo characters. The hero, Bono Zorro (!), as played by a dancer with little acting ability, has to be one of the sleaziest in all of cinema.

A record producer with the improbably epic name 'Bono Zorro' has wired his groovy bachelor pad up to a voice- activated computer which can do things like turn lights on and run a bath at his command. "It's a Central Environment Control System, " he tells one budding young pop starlet, "or S.E.X.Y. for short....get it?". Let's just say what Bono Zorro lacks in acronym skills he more than makes up for with his ability to coax hot young vixens back to his lair and into his jacuzzi. However, S.E.X.Y. (which is basically an Amstrad computer with a TV and a box of random lights attached) soon gets jealous of Bono and his female friends, and starts to spoil the fun.

This is a truly mesmerizing slice of hilariously crap 1980s cheese. Wonky dubbing, ludicrous script, almost zombie-like acting... Everyone involved comes off like the worst actor ever. It's a Garth Marenghi's Darkplace episode, but for real. From what I've read the film had a troubled history and possibly never even came out, but seems to have now been given some form of release under the title 'Urge To Kill', but its other title 'Attack Of The Killer Computer' makes more sense. The pic of a dark haired woman holding an axe which is currently displayed on the IMDb thumbnail seems to be artwork from the DVD release, but has nothing to do with the movie at all.