Bazaar Bizarre
by Benjamin Meade
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Actor: James Ellroy;Robert Berdella;Christopher Leo;Roger Coleman;Bryce MorrowDirector: Benjamin Meade
Brand: PATHFINDER HOME ENTERTAINMENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, Full length, Letterboxed, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-04-25
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Pathfinder Home Ent.
DVD Reviews of Bazaar Bizarre
DVD Review: Innovative creation of art! thus rarely seen in serial killer documentary...,
Summary: 5 Stars
It's sure a strange case of Bob Berdella. This both documentary and almost film alike version here is very interesting for what you otherwise find on serial killers, this guy is sick, and I have watched it 3-4 times within a month.
I found it very thrilling and obscure, abit comic here and there, but a new innovative way to make documentaries, and I think the result and my 5 stars talks for it self.
Worth buying! But only if you are abit sickening yourself, or into pathology studies of primate instincts & psyche, thus criminal psychology, I mean, this DVD is offending many with a fence of morality build around them I would assume?, but a psychological kick to study upon.
Bob Berdella was both smart and dumb person in same objective form, that is seen on his crimes, and the sloppiness, and so on, he was a big large homosexual serial killer who took whoever which entered his home with him, he was a sadist, very regardless of his victims emotions. His torture, was repulsive in my view. Through the film, described both verbally/visually and with drawings + his diaries, one surviving victim tellings + footage with Bob himself,
This is indeed a true documentary.
And I hail those who made it!
DVD Review: inept
Summary: 1 Stars
My header pretty much says it.
What's with the idiotic rock and roll band (between segments) in a documantary about a brutal psychopath who got off by torturing his victims?
No doubt, this is one horrific tale and maybe one day will be done by someone who knows what he/she is doing.
DVD Review: Two stars deducted for the campy musical interludes
Summary: 2 Stars
Were those really necessary? And the band wasn't even that good.
That said, I had barely heard of Bob Berdella until I found the book "Rites of Burial" a while back. It's one of better true crime books I've seen, and it never fails to amaze me how some of these people can do what they do under many people's noses, and nobody seems to suspect a thing.
Incidentally, there is little evidence that Berdella cannibalized his victims or served them at potlucks.
A Web search after reading that book revealed that Christopher Bryson, the escaped victim filmed here in silhouette, changed his name and moved to another part of the state. I don't know if his marriage survived this ordeal and its chaotic aftermath, but if you get this DVD, be sure to watch the filmmakers' comments. One of them said that Bryson had never told his children about the kidnapping and torture (he had one at the time, a son) and hadn't intended to, and when he was approached about making this film, he knew he would have to and when he did, "he felt like a tumor had been cut out of him."
The interviews with the key players in this story, and the narration by James Ellroy, are chilling. This film is unrated, but if it had a rating, the re-enactments with the carrot and cucumber would in themselves merit an NC-17.
One need not fear Berdella any more because he died in 1992.
DVD Review: Documentary with reinactments!
Summary: 4 Stars
I think your ordinary "scary" movie watcher might not like this. But as a serial killer buff i must say this was good! If you want to know about Bob Berdella and not just watch reinactments (like Bundy, Gacy and Dahmer) this is a good one! You get to see the blood in the reinactments but you also get to hear from an actual victim, see the place and the town and more about the one and only Bob Berdella who was one sick bastard ;)DVD Review: Both Campy and Gory, but interesting.
Summary: 4 Stars
I think only those aware of the Berdella story will like this. It's part documentary, part campy reenactment. Berdella is interviewed, as are the detectives who worked the case and Chris Bryson--the young man who escaped and brought an end to Berdella's murderous reign.
And, to those who, like me, have a morbid fascination in wanting to see the Berdella photos (other than those displayed in the book written years ago), throughout the film, during the reenactment scenes of Berdella taking pictures of his drugged victims, shots of the actual victims are quickly flashed on the screen.
Description of Bazaar Bizarre
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.General DVDs
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