Night Business

A masked slasher who preys upon exotic dancers, an evil secret society, nefarious gangsters, a masked vigilante seeking vengeance, plenty of motorcycle mayhem, and copious machine guns all feature in the latest, extremely graphic work from Marra (Terror Assaulter O.M.W.O.T. [One Man War on Terror]). Over the course of his career, Marra has specialized in crafting stories that feel somehow less like parodies of 1980s trash culture (B horror and action movies, cheap paperback novels, etc.) and more as though he's parodying the mind-set that might have taken that material a little too seriously. His ideal audience might be a seething teenager waiting outside the principal's office while administrators decide his punishment for carving the name of his favorite metal band into his teacher's leg. In this, probably his magnum opus, Marra combines a manic glee for pushing the violence and carnality on display to new extremes with a strange sincerity. While the story is often purposefully overwrought, it's never senseless.