Bazaar Bizarre 2006 Horror Movie Review

Robert A “Bob” Berdella tortured, sodomized, photographed and murdered six men, dismembered them, and put their bagged remains out for trash pickup. Bob’s secrets began to emerge the day before Easter, 1988, when a bloody, naked man escaped Berdella’s home wearing only a dog collar. Berdella later confessed to killing six men - some by lethal injection, some by suffocation. All suffered tremendous horrors, as Berdella would torture them sexually, with electric shocks, inject them with animal tranquilizers, put bleach in their eyes, and inject drain cleaner in their voicebox to keep them from screaming. He documented these horrors in a detailed torture log and photographs. What police called torture, Berdella called “my darkest fantasies becoming reality.” Novelist James Ellroy (LA Confidential, Black Dalia) presents this provocative film in a campy yet direct presentation guaranteed to make the viewer squirm.