Slashed… is the second of Ray Dennis Steckler’s cut-and-paste mini-features (okay, shorts) that were self-distributed by Steckler as a “Lost Films Production” in 2003 (but shot much earlier).
As far as the “plot” goes? It’s just a bunch of scenes from Red Heat shown in no particular order. When that gets dull, Steckler tosses in scenes from Las Vegas Serial Killer in there to liven things up. (At least he used that film’s best scene, the extended burlesque number.) All this reminded me of those old Castle Films 8mm condensed versions of old horror movies you could order off the back of Famous Monsters.
Face of Evil was a cobbled together mess, but at least it had enough new footage to semi-warrant calling it a “new” movie. As far as Slashed… goes, I think there may (MAY) have been about a minute of new footage of Lovie Goldmine (and that’s being generous). I will say the music fits the action here a bit better than it did in Face of Evil.
I guess if you don’t have eighty minutes to spend watching Red Heat, you could just watch this half-hour Reader’s Digest version (minus all the hardcore action). I mean if you’re going to do that, you might as well watch Face of Evil. It’s only a few minutes longer and it’s a lot more coherent.
As far as Steckler’s signatures, it’s about the same as Red Heat and Face of Evil. It was shot silently, there’s lots of footage of the Vegas Strip, and Steckler shamelessly reuses scenes from his older films. Steckler Stock Players are basically the same actors who appeared in both Red Heat and Las Vegas Serial Killer; namely: Pierre Agostino, Chuck Alford, and Lovie Goldmine.
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