Fatal Exposure

Jack T. Ripperton, the comically named descendant of Jack the Ripper, practices snuff photography and drinks the blood of his victims to stay virile. One of his intended victims looks so much like his great great grandmother that he spares her, makes love to her, and turns her into an unwitting accomplice.

The story doesn't sound that bad but the movie concentrates on the killing scenes so much that there isn't much else to it. It's seriously just one death scene after another with very little else. If that's your thing, you'll love this. Oh, plenty of nudity, too.

I love horror movies, but when they're more about showing agonizing death scenes in detail than plot then they're not really my thing.

What kept me going were the surprisingly good performances and makeup effects for such an obviously low budget movie! And it was even well shot! I looked up the director and he's a cinematographer, so I guess there's no surprise there.

For fans of B-horror, this is definitely worth a watch.

I admit I am a fan of cheesy B-Movies, Fatal Exposure has okay blood/gore effects for a low-budget goremeister. Blake Bahner does a boyishly seductive killer photographer whose subjects are to die for-literally! Ena Henderson and the suppporting cast do an okay if hammy job. All in all, I kinda liked it.

Behind this film's rather forgettable title lies a mean-spirited, twisted, gory slasher, albeit with its tongue firmly in cheek.

Blake Bahner plays Jack T. Rippington, descendant of Jack the Ripper, who poses as a photographer to continue his infamous ancestor's gruesome work, killing his models if they don't meet his standards. Ena O'Rourke is Erica, who falls for Jack, unaware of his murderous ways or that he plans to have her bear his son so that his bloodline will continue.

What makes this one such fun are Bahner's exaggerated performance (his character breaking the fourth wall to chat to the viewer) and the gruesome kills, Jack dispatching his victims in a variety of creative ways, including decapitation by rotary saw, electrocution, and acid. The gore is cheap and cheerful but there's plenty of it. There's also a fair amount of gratuitous T&A, O'Rourke getting nekkid off for a sex scene and a bath (or was it a shower? Ah, who cares?), bible basher Maggie proving to be quite the goer, and Erica's friend Gretchen being stripped to her undies by Jack.

The ending sees Jack getting a taste of his own medicine when Erica throws acid into his face with suitably messy results.

What a fun little surprise! Not a good movie, mind you, but a fun surprise. Judging by the mundane title and cliched cover image, I was expecting a forgettable erotic thriller about a hunky photographer murdering his models after bedding them. And that's exactly what it is, in fact, but there's more! There's plenty of absurd gooey gore, AND "Fatal Exposure" is also a Jack-the-Rippersploitation flick!

A what? Well, one of the coolest short-lived hypes of 80s slasher horror was the "celebration" of 100 years since Jack the Ripper's infamous and still unresolved killing spree in Whitechapel, London. Between 1986 and 1989, there suddenly emerged a number of flicks that either revolved around the actual Ripper case or a copycat killer, or much sillier tales that somehow teleported the real Jack to a present-day setting! In the latter category, you'll find hugely amusing B-movies like "Terror at London Bridge", "Jack's Back", and thus also "Fatal Exposure".

Good-looking and smooth-talking Blake Bahner stars as Jack Ripperton (!); - playboy, photographer and great-grandson of Jack the Ripper who settled in a quiet God-fearing community where the local sheriff challenges you to a drinking contest and where Bible fanatics secretly dream about kinky sex games. Jack murders his models in imaginatively gruesome ways and drinks their blood, but simultaneously he also hopes to find the perfect woman to bear him a son. "Fatal Exposure" simply offers too much fun in the gore & sleaze departments to whine about the shortcomings! How can you not love a twisted little flick that features acid-kills, rotary saw dismemberment, shotgun blasts, axe decapitations, and plenty of gratuitous T&A?

This movie is a laugher. Photographer kidnaps and kills models while his dense girlfriend procures more victims without having any clue as to what he is doing. Made on a $1.59 budget. Worth the $1.59 to rent it if you like schlocky, cheesy movies.