The story revolves around an unnamed fashion photographer (played by Sven Garrett) in Las Vegas who wants to cleanse the world of "filth." As we learn early on, he is involved in a relationship with an incredibly naive hairdresser, whose 11-year-old sister feels that Sven is a bit creepy. Hmmm. Could it be that Sven worships Hitler, and rapes, tortures and murders his models in a hidden dungeon in his basement? (The young sister is the only one with a brain in the movie, and is also the best performer!)

Our first GIMP scene starts with Sven getting it on with two naked babes on his bed. He slashes one of their throats. The other babe doesn't notice anything until she finds herself covered in her friend's blood. He chokes her unconscious, and she ends up tightly cleaved gagged in a short scene with the blood still smeared all over her.

The movie switches to a lame dinner party where Sven reveals that he has the personality of one of his camera lenses. That pretty much ends the "character development" of the movie, and we soon see what all the hype was supposed to be about.

Sven dunks a model's head in a bathtub and slashes her throat. A brunette lapdancer he picks up gets raped and beaten on his bed, blood spilling out of her mouth. She's later seen rope-gagged while Sven angrily explains his philosophies of life. At least I think it was rope gag. Hard to tell through all the blood and black gunk on her face.

Sven then is seen in his car getting some head from, well, a severed head (shades of Ralphus in BSF!) And after that, he's back in his dungeon chewing off pieces of a torso.

I guess the blowjob wasn't enough. Sven has a naked brunette in metal cuffs bent over on his bench press. He rapes her from behind in a frenzied manner while yelling at her in German. She does a damn good job of screaming and the rape scene goes on for over a minute. She ends up getting her mouth smashed on his barbell.

Sven now wants a threesome, so he gets two of his models who did some outdoor shots. The blonde is sitting on a toilet seat that is part of an elevated wooden thing that's she's tied to, but no gag. She's drenched in blood. Sven hammers a nail through her hand and slips a noose over her head. We see that her friend is naked and suspended upside down with leather straps and chains. Her hands are taped behind her back, and she's tightly tape gagged around the head. We don't get to see much of her face because Sven decides to put a plastic pig's head over it and wrap it with cord. Sven gives her a twirl, and she does a good job of "squealing" through the tape and pig face.

My feeling is that the director next wanted to play up the controversy angle by having Sven brutally and bloodily stab a young girl in a toilet at a park. And in another disturbing scene, Sven kills a fellow German woman at her home, and picks up her screaming infant with his bloody hands. The kid ends up crying and wandering to the body of his mother whose face has been beaten and bloodied.

Back to the dungeon, where Sven has a new blonde taped to that toilet seat thing. After menacing her with a chainsaw, he slowly cuts her head in half.

From there, it's just the obligatory chase scene with Sven trying to catch the 11-year-old sister, her stumbling on to all the corpses in his basement, and the possibility of a sequel.

Murder-Set-Pieces does a good job of supplying in-your-face gore, but it often appeared that it was simply gore for gore's sake. And this, for me, also ruined the potentially awesome GIMP scenes. The victims were hot, and did a convincing job of screaming in terror, but during the tortures, many of their features could barely be discerned through all the blood. Even in the rape scenes, they end up bleeding from the mouth and have the red stuff smeared all over their bodies. This is definitely NOT "Bedroom Bondage."

The movie as a whole was uneven. Sven's acting was way over the top and his rants in German were just annoying. The flashbacks to his childhood where I suppose Sven became a maniac were ill-placed and confusing. The scenes with the children appeared to be unnecessary attempts to add to the controversy of the film. It's also a good thing for Sven that there are apparently no cops in Vegas. There was also a Tarantino-type scene at a porno shop that offers a horrible plug for Palumbo's other movie, Nutbag.