Otis

Otis (2008): The ‘torture-porn’ genre of movies (see Hostel, Saw, and similars) has seen a large number of entries lately and naturally what must follow is a satire based on that genre. Enter Otis, a portly, partially pixilated, paranoid pizza delivery man with a penchant for perusing, partaking of and then permanently planting high school girls. Not only does Otis deliver large pizzas but is pretty large himself. He takes his prey to a locked room and talks to them until they are totally frustrated by his idiosyncrasies and they agree to do what he wants or they get chopped into smaller parts. The film is populated by parents with a tendency to take the law into their own hands, inept police, the worst FBI profiler in history, and a news media that appears to be trying to suck as much emotion out of the situation rather than just reporting the news. Once the ingénue escapes, the parents and her wastrel brother decide to punish the serial killer themselves and off the logical plain go the story. The movie sticks some sharp pins into the modern world as well as in the genre it is satirizing. The actor playing the lead felon, Otis, does an outstanding job and the cast as a whole gives it a good go. The movie is not rated but would probably kidnap and R for: cheerleader cutting, cheerleader electrocution, apathetic cheerleading, prom from hell, shovel to the head, five iron to the same head, blowtorch to the throat, toes in a blender, and especially for the unhelpful sympathetic utterances by the FBI profiler.