Slashed...

Slashed... (2003)

BOMB (out of 4)

Even the most hardcore fan of Ray Dennis Steckler is going to have a hard time defending this thing. From an interview the director gave, apparently he started filming a movie with his girlfriend Lovie Goldmine but she left town before it was complete. Apparently they shot some of the start, middle and end of the picture so Steckler pretty much took that footage and threw in mostly footage from his 1975 porn film RED HEAT. The end result is a pretty awful film that probably ranks as the director's worse. At just 31-minutes it's really hard to take this thing serious because I'd guess that 25-minutes of the footage is from RED HEAT. I'm not exactly sure why these "bonus footage" wasn't just thrown away or kept in a vault somewhere and especially when you consider there's not too much of it. Did we really need to see the new footage here? Why sit through so much footage of RED HEAT when you could just watch that picture (and it's not too bad)? SLASHED... really doesn't have a single thing going for it, although fans of the director's THE Hollywood STRANGLER MEETS THE SKID ROW SLASHER will enjoy seeing actor Pierre Agostini here. It seems the footage here was shot in the 1970's, although the copyright at the end states 2003.

No pun intended - if you really want to watch Red Heat (the one from the same director), you should just do that. Because this is about 90% (or is it more) comprised of that movie. Also it does not contain all the "juicy" stuff (read X-rated adult material that did not make it here, in this short version - and yes size does not matter ... unless it does, like in this case).

So there is no reason for this (well I assume he got money for doing this cut, even though he allegedly claimed never to have done adult movies) ... unless you are a completionist I reckon. I can't tell you not to watch or own it if that is the case ... but there is no substance here ...