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Fatal Images

Director: Dennis Devine Run Time: 90 min. Format: DCP Rating: NR Release Year: 1989

Starring: Lane Coyle, Kay Schaber, Angela Eads, David Williams, Diana Byrne

When fashion photographer Amy Stuart scored a strange old camera at a bargain price, she thought she’d made a deal—until her sexy models all start showing up butchered after their shoots. The slaughter mirrors the gruesome spree of serial killing shutterbug Kurt Cosgrave, who died under mysterious circumstances a decade earlier… and who, as Amy soon discovers, trapped his deranged soul into the camera itself so he could kill forever.

A late ’80s shot-on-video curio from veteran filmmaker Dennis Devine (Dead Girls), this eccentric horror gem oozes sleaze and strangeness that rises above the usual SOV fare of its time. Part lurid sexploitation and part supernatural slasher, its hazy, dreamlike vibe makes it feel both like a scrappy regional epic and a true piece of outsider art. Erratic and hypnotic, it drags you into its analog trance — one of those rare home-video artifacts that lingers in the mind long after the tape ends.