Psychiatrists have identified well over a million males on the planet who have a problem with the fact that men have sex with women-there's some fancy name for it but whatever the central character here Matthew is one of them believing sex is the most disgusting thing in the World.Which is probably the reason why he bumped his own father off as he drives a tractor. As he jumps out the tractor runs over his own arm and he ends up with a metal hook. Then his new career as a killer begins with his mother's new husband-how dare he touch her-and the accidental death he causes to her.This wasn't really necessary to remove her from the picture-she could have died of shock! Though Matthew has a hook arm he doesn't really use it to kill people he relies on more traditional methods but when he stumbles upon a woman painting a picture he gets into conversation with her as she looks like his late mother but is also a hooker-a good enough reason to follow her last client and kill him. The same actress played both his mother and the hooker which may be why he insists on calling her his mother's name and as part of his plan to convince her he's rich he conns his way into a mansion and slaughters everybody in it. Thus the stage is set for the next act which is to abduct the hooker,tie her up and force her to at least get used to it-but the motive is not sexual its just to stop her leaving so its about Control. The film is fast paced and easy to follow with more killings on the way and at one stage even the hooker is attacked and dumped in the cellar with the other bodies. The police and the authorities are unaware iof any of this and the ending in a church is rather abrupt as the ghosts of all those he killed finally crowd in on him. Its not a satisfactory ending but then few of them are.You get the impression they kept adding stuff which was never concluded-not much point in the hooker concealing a weapon found in the bathroom when she never uses it.Or even the point of her insisting on having a bath just so Matthew could find it more distasteful when she appears nude and later tries to seduce him-which is more of a ploy as it transpires he is not aroused by the sight There's also no reason why he should keep her tied up because this isn't a bondage thing.Its just a movie which is saying "yes there are people like that who find sex disgusting"
Review of Scream Bloody Murder
