Next on my list to see: Hacksaw: Documentary of a Psycho Killer. I had the opportunity beforehand to speak to the filmmaker, Toby Johansen (there was plenty of time, since this particular screening room was thirty minutes behind schedule). He created Hacksaw six years ago, when he was only sixteen, and recently decided it needed more blood and gore. He told me about how he knew there were a few existing films posing as documentaries about serial killers, but he wanted to try a different take. In the story of this film, the serial killer, Dillon Mason, is the filmmaker, recording his revenge against all those who treated him like crap because of his debilitating skin cancer. Johansen warned me that this film is extremely dark and potentially very disturbing.
I'm fairly jaded when it comes to horrific things on the screen, and so I didn't find the film particularly disturbing, but one not so used to such things may find it difficult to watch. The scenes in which the killer makes his kills and revels in the corpses' aftermath are often quite chilling. The film suffers, however, from Mason's over-long rants to his victims, much of which is nearly impossible to hear due to poor sound quality. Still, Johansen is onto something and has a definite burgeoning talent.