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Killer Desire

Ah, Eros and Thanatos, sex and death, twin desires that drive the secret hearts of all humankind, brought together in a film called Killer Desire, about a hitman who fucks her victims to death. Well, it could have been good, but really, it’s merely okay. Brea Bennett, the 19-year-old blonde contract girl, is suitably luscious in the leading role, and she’s good at pouting and looking pissed-off, which is about all the script ever demands of her. She plays an assassin who just wants to do one or two more jobs before she retires. Her nickname — The Preying Mantis — refers to her preference for seducing her victims and then killing them. (Though she doesn’t bite off their heads.) How she kills them is never really clear. In two separate scenes, she fucks men, and after they come, they fall over dead on the bed, no signs of violence, not a mark on them. So, um . . . heart attacks induced by Brea’s sheer fucktastic awesomeness? Poisoned vagina? Who knows?

There’s no plot without conflict, and Brea has a treacherous boss (Ben English, who has a nice scene where he plays a little rough with Brooke Haven) who wants to kill her for reasons that I never fully understood. She also has a rival assassin, who hates her because she’s a better killer than he is, I guess. Of course, when he gets the drop on her, she convinces him to shag her rather than shoot her, and he agrees, which is a bit surprising, since he knows her entire modus operandi is screw-and-kill. And, yes, indeed, he falls over dead post-coitus. Not much of an afterglow. By all the rules of narrative there should be a final scene where Brea goes to kill her evil boss — with her murderous sexual prowess! — but all we get is a shot of him dead on his couch, dick dangling, with the implication that, yep, Brea hunted him down offscreen at some point. Something of a — forgive me — anti-climax. So, despite my initial hopes, this isn’t exactly The Professional or even Grosse Pointe Blank with lots of sex, but a pretty standard glossy porn flick with a dog’s breakfast of a plot. Still, there are a couple of good scenes, especially the one with Ben English, and Brea Bennett is easy on the eyes.

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