If you are able to find a copy of this flick and thinking you are going to see the next big thing then you will be wrong even as this flick has a following and is already stated as 'cult'. The reason is rather simple. It was director Trevor Barley who thought to film a very erotic flick in the UK and knowing that it never would have a proper release or a fan base if it came out under a normal way. So he gave himself the nickname Roman Nowicki and hired Polish actors who spoke in their own language. A legend was born. Is it all that bad as people say, I say no because it did remind me of Fulci for the erotic shots and Argento for the use of coloured lighting. And it was entertaining but do know it's a no-brainer were girls are only used to show it all. And that's exactly what it does. One girl do take of all her clothes just to help a broken car for example. And when another girl comes across she's being killed but the other chick never hear her scream. She's only ass up to view it all. But what do makes it attracting is the way it was shot and edited and of course the girls. It's rather slow in some parts and do have stupid moments when the two guys are looking at the girls passing by but overall it's worth picking up if it wasn't for the wooden spoon scene. It's all just on the edge of porn, there's never any intercourse or things like that going on but we do see close-ups of the girls in all ways. One of the better nudie exploitations if we can call it that way. But what a clever marketing saying that this is Polish...Gore 0,5/5 Nudity 5/5 Effects 1,5/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0,5/5

Well, it's 9:30 am on a Friday morning, and I'm checking out this boobs 'n blood extravaganza. Life as usual. Watching this shortly after waking up, while munching away on my fibre-rich Sultana Bran, I had the disturbing realisation that this must be how Patrick Bateman starts his day. It's an unsettling thought as he's not really a figure I care to identify with. Not because of the yuppieness and misogyny mind you, but purely because he prefers Genesis post Peter Gabriel. That's just sick!Fantom Kiler is about... a fantom guy killing people. Yeah, that's about the entirety of the "plot". An early scene sums up the movie fairly well - A woman is walking through the woods. Some branches tear her blouse so she takes it off. The same branches tug at her pony tail causing her long brown hair to cascade down over her heaving bosom. She soon encounters a fence and realises her skirt prevents her from climbing through, so naturally she removes that too. Now she's wandering around the wilderness in just a pair of high heels. Eventually when she gets stabbed to death by our fantom friend, rather than breaking down in soul-shattering fear and pain, she just sort of poses like a Playboy model covered in blood. The rest of the movie is much the same, with a handful of slightly pornographic moments scattered throughout.It's totally ridiculous, but hey if gratuitous nudity and violence is wrong, then I don't ever want to be right.Surprisingly, director Roman Nowicki handles some of the sleaze relatively stylishly. In the above murder, there's a lovely shot of the moon reflecting off the blood-stained knife and when he wipes off the blood with his black-gloved hands, the image is replaced by the face of his victim reflected in the blade. It's a moment straight from a 70's giallo and adds a touch of, dare I say it, class to the proceedings. Actually, the movie could basically be described as a softcore porn giallo. There's some decent humour in there too. There's a moment where the fantom kiler offers one stark naked would-be victim some clothes because "The mosquitoes will be biting your beautiful breasts. And your tender ass." That's some quality dialogue right there! Terrifying masterpiece this ain't, but if you're in that kind of mood where you don't give a crap about plot and just wanna see tons of titties and mindless violence then check this one out. I'm quite often in that mood, even at 9:30 am, so I rather enjoyed it.Oh, and did I mention the close-up anus shots? I've never seen such anal detail in a movie before. If you're a connoisseur of the female anus, then this is THE movie for you.

If you have any perception of "Fantom Kiler" being a sexually explicit slasher movie, then think again. What we have here is 82 minutes of cheap home made pornography.There's no plot to speak of, just a succession of naked ladies. The entire thing is filmed as one massive masturbation fantasy. The few male roles are comedy toilet cleaners and police officers, who are dubbed with an audio quality that doesn't sound anything like the rest of the film's soundtrack! Oh yes, and the murders are fixated on the vagina and the anus. I can imagine the director getting into a froth of excitement over each drawn out scene of chase, stripping and sexually related death (all the women are directed to act as though sexually aroused during their murders). There are a total of 4 sets - an office, a lobby, a bedroom and a forest (which looks to be about 5 meters square and indoors). All the women in the film become naked and oiled up (?), sometimes within mere seconds of appearing on the screen. And there are plenty of extremely explicit close ups. Some of the film is based around two toilet cleaners who imagine what all the women who pass by would look like naked...cue lots of footage of women naked. We also spend nearly 15 minutes watching one of the cleaners stick a wooden spoon up some girl's butt.Take it from me, "Fantom Kiler" is pornography, nothing more. It's also not even Polish (which is what it's trying to look like, but they can't even do that convincingly). It's a film about naked women...everything else is an afterthought, in fact it's practically a waste of time trying to review it in the horror/thriller genre at all.

I'm really not too sure if all of the hype and carry on about this movie is worth the energy. Previous reviews and comments I have read elsewhere claim this film is disturbing and degrading to women.To me it wasn't quite hardcore porn, but then again a little more than softcore.OK, yeah sure there were naked women getting killed, some quite explicitly, but why cant people see this movie for what it is. B grade underground porn with the intent to shock. Obviously someone has wanted to take a step away from the normalties of regular porn, and try to get a controversial reputation. He's also gone for the artistic approach, but that is more annoying that interesting. Also the picture on DVD goes from wide screen to full screen, to blurry etc, and the subtitles have a tendancy to disappear below the screen or inside the movie, also, the fonts are prone to change, and I've heard that the whole thing was made in England, dubbed (very poorly apparently) into Polish, and then given english subtitles.The money I paid to see this movie probably cost more than what it cost to make it, so I guess I'm the sucker.Part 2 is pretty much the same, though I think the director may have broken up with his girlfriend before making this one, because the dialogue is pretty resentful toward women.All in all, dont expect much here, at best The Fantom Kiler trilogy are movies most suited to sitting around with the boys, some drinks, and having a laugh. Serious horror fans will hate them, and the raincoat brigade will want more.