Diary of a Sex Offender

Independent Entertainment 2010

R1 DVD

Michael is a loner, trying to make sense of his life. His dark artwork and tortured sculptures are an attempt to try to express his inner confusion. It started when he killed his parents, back when he was a kid, and was influenced by a sort of spectre that only appeared to him. The spectre may be the devil or it may just be a product of Michael’s mind, but it was powerful. Now it’s back, haunting him again, and before it will give him help on what Michael’s life is about, Michael must make sacrifices to it. Human sacrifices.

He is moving his beliefs towards some sort of crazed religious model where sacrifice is part of the ritual. The spectre has been giving him clues but lately the clues have become more cryptic. Now a number is revealed to him every time he makes a sacrifice. He struggles to decipher the meaning of numbers but needs more information. That means more killing. His other reward is a “mental orgasm” so powerful that it leaves him foaming at the mouth.

His best (only?) friend is aghast when he reads Michael’s diary, which is written in a rambling book form. He feels there is something wrong with Michael but beyond suggesting that Michael gets help he won’t do anything.

One day Michael meets the new tenant of the flat upstairs. She is another young girl, appropriate for Michael’s purposes. He ties her up, rapes her and is about to kill her when she reveals that she likes this sort of treatment and has fallen in love with Michael. He immediately falls in love with her and finds that love is the meaning that he has been searching for all these lonely years. The spectre, however, still wants its sacrifice.

This is a strange film. Disregard its title. There is a lot of fondling and groping, but little salacious sex. There are a number of murders but we never see much detail so there isn’t much gore. Michael’s character as written is a little flat but Peter Grouse plays it with a low key intensity that works well in this setting. It is a film more about Michael’s mind and his attempt to find reality than anything else, and it is well done.

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