If you live in the New York City area, Monday nights are killer. Fangoria has gotten in on Pioneer Theater's "Bizarro Monday" programs - which theyre calling Monster Mondays as of late. Whatever the name, its on these summer evenings that you can catch some of the "finest and trashiest" in horror, b-movie, freakshow, and exploitation flicks. Fangoria recently announced on their website that on Monster Monday August 7th, there will be a showing of 39: A Film By Carroll McKane. Its a movie directed by Gary Sherman (Dead & Buried) about a man obsessed with new media to the point where he videotapes the deaths of some 36 people and it sounds pretty sick. The synopsis for this movie is just below - but heads up - these events have been selling out the past few Monday nights, so if you're interested in attending, hit the link below for advance ticket information.
Carroll McKanes DVcams have recorded the deaths of his 36 past victims. His killing room, a makeshift studio, is the set for the murders of two more victims and the torture of a forensic psychiatrist, destined to be his biographer and the killer of his final victim... number 39.
In this dark and disturbing film by veteran horror director Gary Sherman (DEATH LINE, DEAD & BURIED), Carroll McKane is a man obsessed with new media. This obsession began as a way to document another of his obsessions, "changing things". For the past ten years, in front of his DVcams, this serial killer has "changed" thirty-six human beings into "debris."
Carroll has recently reached a new plateau in his life, one that is common to the pathology of most serial murderers, the "monster within" has to become his ultimate victim. In almost all cases, these individuals either try to get caught, like BTK most recently in Wichita, Kansas, or commit suicide, as is theorized to explain the sudden disappearance of such a notorious killer as Jack the Ripper. But McKane is much too egocentric to either purposely make mistakes or face the possibility of becoming an unidentified, nameless and faceless footnote in criminal history. By using his self-professed skills as a filmmaker, he is making an autobiographical film to tell the world about his crimes and document his demise.
He has converted his horrific killing room and crematorium into a makeshift studio complete with lighting and numerous surveillance cameras. Here he records the murders of two more innocent victims and the torture of a prominent forensic psychiatrist he has kidnapped. Carroll's goal is to make the doctor his biographer as well as force him to be the killer of his final victim: number 39.
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