Comments on: The Audience as Victim — MURDERER

By: Calvin McMillin

Calvin McMillin — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:49:37 +0000

I agree; the “old beggar” actually being real was hard to swallow, but then again, so was the entire premise!

By: headscratcher

headscratcher — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:23:16 +0000

Think the movie would have worked better had, in the final reckoning, the ‘bullied beggar boy’ turned out to be a figment of Ling’s imagination (madness) after all. I still found the ‘old beggar’ implausible despite the lengthy denouncement-flashback segment, since the plot had Ling knocking him out in the subsequent showdown yet the suddenly-arriving police apparently never ‘found’ his body…

By: RONIN ON EMPTY

RONIN ON EMPTY — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:17:12 +0000

[…] (who the hell would want to watch THIS?) — as was the case with Imprint. I know I made fun of Murderer in a recent blog post, but I was really more baffled about how all the major players involved with […]

By: Lo Sconosciuto

Lo Sconosciuto — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 05:33:37 +0000

While both MURDERER and ORPHAN (BTW, it totally takes the pipe too) are bamboo-under-the-fingernails bad, and some embarrassed entertainment can be gleaned from them, I still have the feeling that end of my days, I will regret the time I spent watching this folderol.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:10:06 +0000

great review. says everything i was thinking about the film. murderer really should be seen. it falls in the so good its bad category and might even be better than showgirls. btw, the film youre talking about is orphan and it was WAY better. im not even comparing it to murderer although the filmmakers of murderer should watch Orphan to see how it’s done. it makes their talent look amateurish in comparison.

By: darren

darren — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:02:19 +0000

Trying not to laugh out loud at work while reading your blog…the movies definitely a classic…for all the wrong reasons

By: Webmaster Kozo

Webmaster Kozo — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:42:35 +0000

MURDERER is AWESOME for all the wrong reasons. Comedy of the year, bar none.

By: Calvin

Calvin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:39:44 +0000

While the dialogue looked like it was looped — there’s no way that kid could keep talking about his character’s evil machinations without forgetting his lines — the voice sounded like it was (or was meant to be) a child’s. I don’t know if it was the child actor’s voice or someone else’s.

EDIT: Corrected a bunch of typos in the original post. Man, I need an editor.

By: TheGoldenRock

TheGoldenRock — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:05:13 +0000

Your suggestions certainly might’ve made the film better, and it would’ve had a better chance at selling the ludicrous twist.

Question: The theatrical version of the film actually featured the kid in a changed voice to indicate that he is in his “evil, 40-year-old” mode. Is that the same in the DVD version, or did they just keep the kid’s voice?