B.T.K. DVD Review

Anyone can send out for a call girl (as if phoning out for a pizza), including B.T.K. killer Dennis L. Rader (convincingly played by horror legend Kane Hodder) in the Lionsgate Entertainment May 12, 2009 DVD release of B.T.K., written and directed by Michael Feifer. A woman in a lavendar overcoat arrives in a hotel room thinking she’s going to pleasure the man within, binds him to a chair, and calls him “Teddy Bear.” You can guess that this is one bear who doesn’t like to be tossed around! She guesses this too and runs off with his money, but unfortunately drops her purse and loses her ID.

Inevitably she undergoes the process – severe binding, torture, and subsequent killing – and we didn’t know that things like this could happen in the cornfields of Wichita, Kansas, or that a married man with two children and a supposedly normal job as a compliance officer (security guard/city worker) would end up punishing so many non-Madonnas in his Madonna-Whore complex. Reminiscent of a slick Ted Bundy (albeit without his charm), Dennis L. Rader wields his control freak authority ruthlessly during the day – down to informing a housewife that her lawn is higher than the 3-and-a-half-inch ordinance limit or admonishing a woman that her sweet lap-dog Charlie, whom he finds sitting passively on the sidewalk, “might maul a child.” He becomes even more vindictive at night, sometimes stealing into the homes of these disobedient females to teach them a lesson, or surprising young couples about to engage in intimate behavior. At least in this movie, he seems to prefer redheads and blondes.

It’s hard for us as a society to understand how someone would enjoy watching a defenseless victim struggle while being afraid of almost certain death, because we ourselves would not want to be terrorized in this manner. The B.T.K. killer never identifies with the pain of his victims and instead uses their fright to make himself feel sexually stimulated and alive, usually the sign of someone who’s been severely abused as a child or born genetically inclined towards being a sociopath. After killing one woman by encasing her head in a clear plastic bag until she can no longer breathe he blythely returns home to dinner where his normal wife and two girls sing his praises, as he is soon to attain the level of church president, a man of “the highest integrity and spirituality” which he claims is a dream come true.

Dennis L. Rader slaughtered women from 1974 to 1991 (wondering how many he had to kill before he got his name in the newspaper) and then evaded capture until 2005. Among is vast writings he penned, “There’s no hope, no cure.”

No monster culled from anyone’s imagination could be as chilling as the hardened mind-set of a real-life deviant. Unless you’re an iceberg, B.T.K. will definitely scare you! B.T.K. is very well-made by Michael Feifer, acclaimed for his other films about serial killers, and is visually striking and a cut above many lesser horror stories. It was made to be seen by older teenagers and adults. Just be prepared not to go to sleep for a few nights (or weeks) afterwards!

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Readers Comments (1)

1. brandy says:

   May 27, 2009 at 12:57 pm

   this movie is nothing like the real btk killings, i knw its a fictional story but they dont pursue him as the real dennis rader. this movie is stupid n i regret ever watching it! i live in wichita and grew up watchin btk breaking news, so i knw!

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