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Murder is Like Sex is the story of Kevin Wright (Jayson Garity), who is a pretty big
loser, not very well liked by his peers, and always strikes out with the ladies. Kevin
pretty much sucks in all departments of social activity. In Kevin’s frustrations, he often
ends up fantasizing and thinking of situations in his head happening the way he would
like them to turn out. He plays with himself, hands in pockets stroking his hard-on
while at work talking to “hot” customers; and ends up retiring to the bathroom where
his lotion, paper towels, and spank mags are located. As we learn more and more about
how pathetic this guy is, a blonde woman starts to appear in his dreams and fantasies,
while Kevin jerks off to her. Yes, there are many scenes of self-flagellation in this film.
As Kevin’s life continues to take a turn for the worse, this blonde woman named Lisa
(Robyn Griggs) shows up in what appears to be a dream, which we find out is really
not. Kevin and his friend, Kenny White (Michael Hanton), go through the movie
hanging out here and there around town, drinking and striking out with girls left and
right. The director, Keith Boron, spends a good portion of the film setting up the
character of Kevin with incident after incident chronicling his frustrations with peers,
friends, girls, and elders. Although I, personally am not as socially awkward as Kevin’s
character is, my high school years were, by no means, a walk in the park, and I felt
that Boron really created some realistic scenes of utter loserville.
The film is extremely low-budget, sub-par acting, less than perfect shots, and sound
technicalities here and there. Set those all aside and one gets an entertaining little
film, probably more so if one has had a few beers in ‘em. Upon watching this film for
the second time, with audio commentary and no beers, I still found it to be amusing. I
cracked up at the masturbation jokes, the scenes of dialogue in regards to marriage
(along the lines of the only good thing about marriage is having pussy around all the
time) and the more often than not crude dialogue.
The film is much more of a comedy than a horror film, but there are some elements of
horror littered throughout it amongst the American Pie-type crude humor. I did wish
that along with all the jerking off, there was some gratuitous nudity to help convey
exactly what Kevin was visualizing while pleasuring himself. I am sorry, but if one is
fantasizing about a woman, I am sure that woman is going to be fully naked and not
partially clothed. Who the hell has PG-Rated fantasies? Speaking of fantasizing,
Heather Summers plays Lucy, Kevin’s girlfriend, who I felt gave the best acting
performance as well as was the most attractive actress in the whole film. Again, there
were a few scenes that could have had capitalized on her beauty and sexuality, but
were quite tame in actuality.
Overall, I enjoyed the film for what it was worth and was not disappointed that I had
popped it in and watched it. I think director Boron should look into spilling some
nudity with the crude and raunchy dialogue to complete the package in future films.
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The film was shot on a low budget and on low-budget cameras. Some of the shots
looked pretty decent, while as others did not look very good at all. The quality of the
film was standard and there were no major faults on it that took anything away from
the film.
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I was not too thrilled with the sound in the film. There were lots of dips in sound
levels that made it hard to hear actors when delivering dialogue. The most annoying
aspect was in the audio commentary for the film. I could not hear half of what was
being said because everyone participating had different levels of audio, mostly too
low to make out. I had the volume pumped so I could hear everyone and at times that
didn’t even work.
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Again, the director’s commentary with the DP, Editor, and one of the actor’s was semi-
interesting but had terrible sound. Many of the extra info on the film was pretty
standard and not that interesting. I could have done without listening to the
commentary. It did offer some insight into the film. One finds out why certain shots
were filmed a certain way and all the errors that occurred, but nothing really juicy on
the commentary.
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I recommend watching this film if one is totally bored, all right with low-budget Indie
flicks, and has no expectations for nudity, gore, violence, superb acting, and intelligent
story-writing. The only aspect of this film that really pushed me to rate it just over the
halfway mark was the crude humor that I am a sucker for. Murder is Like Sex just held
a certain charm for me that made me feel it was better than your low-budget film. It
had some inventive porn humor in it, a record shop, and some hilarious metal-all of
which appealed to me. I advise renting this film when knowing what to expect and
think it probably is not worth buying. If I had to pay for it, I wouldn’t.
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