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3/10
The best junk
BandSAboutMovies29 August 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Bono Zorro is a famous music producer, or so this movie tells us, but most of the time he's bringing new ladies into his apartment which is under the control of the proto-Alexa unit named Sensual Environment Control System. Yes, she's called SEXY and she's definitely a she. That's because she's in love with Bono and she'll murder every other band aid, groupie and woman in his life to keep him.

This sounds like it could be a very exciting movie but this thing is the very definition of plodding and for some reason, I kind of love that it's so slow and pointless, a movie where models just lounge around and the dialogue sounds like the first time anyone has ever seen the script.

Writer/director Derek Ford made British smut like Secret Rites; I Am a Groupie; Keep It Up, Jack; The Girl from Starship Venus and was the uncredited director of Blood Tracks. He made this for Dick Randall, whose career has the kind of moments that we can only hope to live through. Starting as a joke writer for Uncle Miltie, it took a failed George Jessel Broadway play to send him to Italy where he figured out that Americans wanted to see some sleaze. So he sent us stuff like Primitive Love, The Wild Wild World of Jayne Mansfield, The French Sex Murders, The Real Bruce Lee and so much more. He was the writer of Pieces and Lady Frankenstein as well as the writer/director of The Girl In Room 2A and Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks. Man, just when you think you have scratched everything Randall made, he surprises you with more - Slaughter High, Death Dimension, For Your Height Only, Don't Open 'Til Christmas, Crocodile, King of Kong Island...what an amazing contribution to our lives he has made.

Anyways, this movie features a woman being killed by a laser to the nipples, another burned by an acid shower and yet one more woman finding her doom at the bristles of an electric toothbrush before SEXY somehow possesses Bono and makes him drown his girlfriend in the hot tub, which is the most 80s way to die.

SEXY is also kind of like Synergy from JEM because she can manifest herself as a body-painted woman and run people over with her car. I don't think Synergy ever did that, but trust me, it's a good comparison.

Also: SEXY could be CECS and stand for Central Environment Control System. This movie is so brain-destroying that either answer is correct and you know, this movie is such a mess that you can just sit back and enjoy it. I mean, a naked woman who looks like she has makeup out of Liquid Sky kills and kills and kills in-between ladies taking bubble baths and having BDSM finger-licking sessions that are grosser than watching Peter Hooten eat the Colonel's eleven secret herbs and spices in Night Killer.

Obviously, this movie has my highest recommendation.
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3/10
See it to believe it
Leofwine_draca9 January 2023
THE URGE TO KILL is a bargain basement slice of trash from Derek Ford, the sexploitation director known for fare such as THE WIFE SWAPPERS and KEEP IT UP, JACK. For his final movie he unwisely decided on this supernatural slasher in which a record executive's high-tech computer system goes all H. A. L. And begins bumping off his conquests. Never released and shot on video, this is a cheap and silly little effort mainly designed to showcase nudity from a succession of blonde bimbo characters. The hero, Bono Zorro (!), as played by a dancer with little acting ability, has to be one of the sleaziest in all of cinema.
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9/10
"hey you...come out from behind that box"
ElWormo8 March 2017
A record producer with the improbably epic name 'Bono Zorro' has wired his groovy bachelor pad up to a voice- activated computer which can do things like turn lights on and run a bath at his command. "It's a Central Environment Control System, " he tells one budding young pop starlet, "or S.E.X.Y. for short....get it?". Let's just say what Bono Zorro lacks in acronym skills he more than makes up for with his ability to coax hot young vixens back to his lair and into his jacuzzi. However, S.E.X.Y. (which is basically an Amstrad computer with a TV and a box of random lights attached) soon gets jealous of Bono and his female friends, and starts to spoil the fun.

This is a truly mesmerizing slice of hilariously crap 1980s cheese. Wonky dubbing, ludicrous script, almost zombie-like acting... Everyone involved comes off like the worst actor ever. It's a Garth Marenghi's Darkplace episode, but for real. From what I've read the film had a troubled history and possibly never even came out, but seems to have now been given some form of release under the title 'Urge To Kill', but its other title 'Attack Of The Killer Computer' makes more sense. The pic of a dark haired woman holding an axe which is currently displayed on the IMDb thumbnail seems to be artwork from the DVD release, but has nothing to do with the movie at all.
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