Lucker, the Necrophagous

A serial killer is on the loose and after a particular victim that survived him. The streets aren't safe with this madman on the prowl.

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Johan Vandewoestijne's Lucker, The Necrophagous, seems built primarily to shock and repulse. Raw and ugly in content and presentation, Lucker will be suitable "entertainment" for the August Underground crowd. Lucker is pure evil personified. He seems to have no other purpose on this earth but to hurt and kill. Obviously, the litmus test for most will be the grotesque corpse fucking as Lucker embraces the rotted body of a prostitute he bled out after binding her to her apartment bed. Cathy is the girl he obsesses over because she's the "one that got away". Escaping a mental institution [natch], Lucker aims to kill some folks and take care of Cathy. So the path of his destruction is covered in little over an hour. More time spent with this crude sick mutt would have been too much. Everything about the film is purposely foul and nasty. Lucker, who we spend most of the running time with, is portrayed as he should...a putrid scumbag with no redeeming qualities. This isn't a film for those unwilling to tolerate a maniac's killing spree, and how he conducts himself leaves much to be desired. The look and performance of Nick Van Suyt is spot on if you're looking for the embodiment of depraved and gross. The casting of him was perfect in the regard that he fits the mold of a Joe Spinell, Belgium style. Whether he's binding an innocent, sticking her with a knife as she squirms, frightened and unable to escape, as Cathy must watch her while tied to a chair, or collapsing Cathy's boyfriend to the ground (unexpectedly brought down by Lucker while chatting him up by the apartment complex) as he strangles him, Lucker is always a character that behaves so monstrously he'll possibly make your skin crawl. Killing doesn't bother him at all. He's willing to do just about anything, as evident by banging a very decomposed body, licking her deteriorated face. Seeing this as it happens is very much the grossout. I wondered why I was watching this film, to tell you the truth.