Papertrail (1998)
5/10
Death is just a phone call away
24 February 2016
Warning: Spoilers
****SPOILERS**** Low budget serial killer flick with Toronto Canada subbing for the Big Apple New York City having a killer on the loose with a strange hang-up of not only murdering his victims but photographing them and hacking off a part, an arm leg and even head, of their bodies. It's burned out FBI Agent Jason Enola, Chris Penn, who's recruited by his friend and fellow FBI Agent Brad Abraham, Michael Madsen, to track the killer down since he was on his case some 4 years ago that lead him to flip out in not being able to solve it. It's then that he locked himself away from society and become a recluse as well as have his wife with his two young daughters walk out on him.

It's the movie's low production values that make it work by concentrating on Agent Enola & Abraham's mostly police work and not much else to get the job done. There's also a major side plot about psychiatrist Dr. Alyce Robertson, Jennifer Dale, who accidentally stumbles on to the killer during a group session involving a number of her patients with serious mental problems; One just released from prison after serving four years for murdering his wife. The movie teases us as well as Agent Enola in just who the killer is. And the clues to his identity is kept form the audience as well as Agent Enola until he himself becomes a victim and is on the brink of death and as if having an out of the body experience puts two and two together.

****SPOILERS**** With Agent Enola shot and about to expire he suddenly gets superhuman strength and dashes out of the ambulance that's taking him to the hospital emergency ward to confront the killer who by then revealed who he or she is to a shocked Dr. Robertson the person whom the killer was after all along. Like Dr. Frankenstein the crazed and vengeful, towards Dr. Robertson, serial killer wanted her head to complete his operation in making the perfect woman from the parts of the women victims that he already murdered and hacked to pieces! But ended up a head short by the time the movie was over.
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