The Bagman [2002]

Utterly worthless shot-on-video trash. In the prologue, some elderly teens are tormenting a disfigured classmate. The local bully puts a burlap bag [with a stitched smile] over his head and apparently drowns him. The main plot has the now-chubby Bagman [Ron Ford] gruesomely murdering his grown-up tormentors, while the one girl who tried to stop the crime has grown up to be an FBI agent [Stephanie Beaton] in town to get evidence against the head bully, who is now a corrupt cop [Paul Zanone]. It offers entry-level film techniques, including scenes where five or six characters assume a pose and then struggle through long dialogue and rotten dismemberment and burn-face make-up. The slasher storyline, alternating softcore sex and amateur splat, is dispensed with in the first half, then the film marks time with asides about the crooked cop, including a scene where he almost has sex with a transvestite, until the limp climax. Directed by Rae Fitzpatrick.

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