As a Canadian who saw this all unfold on the news and the documentaries that followed, and a true horror movie fan of 30+ years, I can't say anything good about this movie! Let me be blunt, there was NO 'comedy' in the real-life story of Robert 'Willie' Pickton, or his 20-some known victims (or.49 according to Pickton's confessions). I'm sure the victim's families would agree with that statement and I hope they never see this movie. This movie makes a farce out of the murders and how they were carried out. In my opinion, I find Jake Busey to be a mediocre actor at best, not to mention he looks nothing like Picton, so I did not like him in this role at all. If your lead actor falls short, the rest of the cast is simply there to pick up the pieces.
There were no 'pretty people' in Picton's life or among his victim's, everything was a depraved, filthy, slimy, drug and alcohol fueled nightmare, from his pig farm, to Hastings street in Vancouver and the prostitutes he murdered. Picton lived his life on the dark seedy underside of the actual dark seedy underside. You can't use the term 'based on true events' and miss ALL the true events, or downplay the most horrid of them. If properly told, depicted and acted, Picton's story would make Leatherface look like an overgrown man-child running amuck with an electric carving knife. Picton picked up prostitutes, drifters and junkies, he had sex with them, drugged them, tortured some of them, enslaved some of them, killed, bled out, skinned and dismembered them and fed almost all of them to his pigs to cover up his crimes. Somebody should have fed the film/footage of this movie to pigs, to cover up how awful it is.
