The Photographer

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“	I am down on whores and I shant quit ripping them.	„
	~ (The Photographer while watching a video of one of his torture sessions).

"The Photographer" is the mad protagonist of the 2004 horror film Murder-Set-Pieces, written and directed by Nick Palumbo.

He was portrayed by Sven Garrett.

Biography

The Photographer is a very dangerous and bloodthirsty serial killer who, taking advantage of his job, wanders in the night through the streets of Las Vegas to board girls - priming models, local dancers red light and above all prostitutes - on the pretext of getting them photographs, and then rape them, torture them in the most brutal ways and fierce possible. By some clues scattered throughout the film is made evident the fact that he suffered terrible trauma during childhood, including abuse of a mentally unstable mother (who probably killed), the influences of the former Nazi military grandfather and the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11th, 2001 and is often plagued by nightmares in which systematically relives her traumatic past. This led him to develop a crazy and evil-minded, with a deep hatred of women (which defines "whores") and nihilism and misanthropy toward the world and of mankind (as is evident from some of the speeches that makes to his victims during their torture). His misogyny is such as to even bring it to kill girls to ensure that never grow up and "do not become whores" (in the film is seen brutally murdering a little girl in a public toilet).

He was engaged to Charlotte (with which does not strive too much to hide their misogyny, and is in bad relations with Jade, her sister, who alternates antipathy for him to suspect. However, it is hinted that having an affair with a woman with whom he had a son (though is not clear whether it was married in the past with this woman, or if he sees in secret, Charlotte), who kills after a quarrel, while sparing the son after him traumatized and show the mangled corpse of his mother. his other crimes include cannibalism and vampirism (in some scenes we see him devour a female upper body semi-putrefied, licking blood from the bodies of victims or drinking voluptuously meat smoothies mangled), necrophilia (you likes to have sex with dead bodies, use them to build objects or store them in a fetishistic), humiliation (as in the scene where a girl binds to a bed by putting a pig mask on the head) and probably pedophilia. It 'also a collector of dolls (representing the mother), is skilled in building instruments of torture (such as false teeth with razor blades instead of teeth) and is dedicated to the study of the human body through drawings on the muscles or sull'ossatura.

Apart from this it also has a certain narcissism, maniacally devoted to the care of his body. Usually does his evil deeds in an underground room in his house, but it also also do them in other places. At the end of the film he is unmasked by the little Jade and tries to kill her, but the girl manages to save the skin of our teeth, stabbing him in the abdomen with a pair of scissors. However, despite appearing to die, the fate of the Photographer is uncertain, because in the end we see him traveling on a bus to an unknown destination and chat with a pretty girl and a girl both passing bus.

It is not specified whether this scene is a flashback of the past, whether it is an epilogue of events killer or is merely symbolic and have metaphorical meanings.

Trivia

• The Photographer is very similar to Patrick Bateman, a famous serial killer protagonist of the book American Psycho and his film transposition of 2000. Both are killers (especially women and children), misogynistic, torturers, cannibals, necrophilia, racist and extremely narcissistic, nihilistic and misanthropic.
• The Photographer also physically resembles the famous Marvel comic book supervillain Sabretooth: both are tall, muscular, blond and with sideburns.