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Movie theatre owner Kirby Sweetman is hired by an eccentric millionaire with a love for films, to hunt down the only known print of a film that has been said to have been destroyed. The film was so notorious that it's single screening caused the viewers to turn become homicidally insane during a film festival. The millionaire, Bellinger, invites Sweetman to his home to ask him to find the film Le Fin du Absolue Monde (The Absolute End of the World). He then takes Sweetman into a dark room and tells him that he collects more than just films. Sweetman then sees a person *a chalky, white, creepy person that is* chained up in the room. Bellinger tells him that he was one of the stars of Le Fin Absolue du Monde. Sweetman heard that the film had been destroyed but the pasty creeper tells him that it hasn't or else he'd know because the movie is a part of his soul.
Bellinger offers Sweetman $200,00 to find the print and says once he's watched it he will give it to Sweetman to screen in his theatre for two weeks. Sweetman begins his journey by travelling to New York to talk a reclusive film critic about the film. The critic tells him that the director of the film was planning on the massacre that happened on the day of the screening. He said he was there when it happened and he saw people murdering each other after the movie. Sweetman tells the critic he was hired to look for the print and the critic tells him that he should know what he's getting himself into. After the meeting with the critic he flies to Paris and talks to an acquaintance in the rare film business and asks if he could help him. The friend tells him he doesn't know anything about it and asks him to please stop searching for the film because bad things will happen.
His friend tells him that the only living survivor of the crew of the movie is blind and won't speak about it and Backovic, the director of Le Fin Absolue du Monde is almost certainly dead. He comes back later and tells his friend that he knows he isn't being completely truthful. Sweetman admits to him that he sees cigarette burns (which happens when the reel changes in a movie) and strange images. His friend tells him the more he looks for the film the more he'll see the cigarette burns and he will pay for every step closer that he takes. His friend tells him that he was the projectionist at the screening of the movie at the festival. He showed Sweetman his severely deformed hand and said that's what happened to him because of the movie. He told Sweetman the only reason he didn't die or go insane is because he was too afraid to watch the movie so he turned away.
His friend gives him the number of a filmmaker and says he wishes he wouldn't call the number but Sweetman does anyway. He arrives in a taxi at a warehouse with two bodyguards standing in front. The filmmaker tells that Sweetman that he knows he is changing and seeing things he can't explain and it's because of the movie. The filmmaker let's Sweetman go through an envelope of still from the movie and then two of his bodyguards hold him while the filmmaker drugs him. He wakes up duct taped to a chair with the taxi driver across from him. The filmmaker comes out with a machete wearing a leather mask and slits the taxi drivers throat and cuts of her head. He tells Sweetman that the act of murder is an art form and Le Fin Absolue du Monde is the apex of that.
Sweetman experiences another vision of cigarette burns and when he comes to he is holding the machete. The bodyguards are dead and the filmmaker is laying on the floor with his throat slit. Before the man dies, Sweetman asks if he knows where the film is and he says "Katja". Sweetman then flies to Vancouver British Columbia in search of Katja Backovic, the directors wife. She lets him into her home and tells him that he is the first one to make it this far. She also tells him that all of the stories about the film are true. She takes him into Backovic's room and shows him the equipment. Sweetman asks her how he died and she explained that Backovic watched the movie repeatedly and went insane. She tells him that he attempted to kill her but only disfigured her and then he killed himself.
He asks her if he can have the films and she says yes because it's already too late for him. He takes the films back to Bellinger in California and collects his $200,000. Shortly after he gets a call from Bellinger saying that he needs help. Sweetman arrives to find the butler standing in the foyer with cuts all over his body and accusing him of bringing trouble into the house before gouging out his eyes. Sweetman finds Bellinger in the projection room. He tells Sweetman that he watched the film and would highly recommend it. He said he wanted to make a movie of his own and then cuts out his own intestines and runs them through the projector. Sweetman blacks out and when he comes to he is watching Le Fin Absolue Du Monde. He gets a gun and then....
Boogity boogity, what's gonna happen next??? Idk..hows about you watch Cigarette Burns and find out for yourself. Now, onto what I thought. I actually kinda liked it. The whole idea of people watching a simple film and then going ape shit and killing people is intriguing to me...seriously. The plot was great and the acting was really good too. There was some nekkidness *some dead girl boobs and butt* a good amount of blood (especially when it sprayed from the taxi drivers neck..woo!) , some intestines, and a severed head...what more could a girl ask for?? I think overall I'd give it a 3 out 5. It kept my attention, which is hard to do sometimes =) and it was well written and well acted. Plus the little pasty white guy was weird looking...I mean...was that all make up or was he that weird looking and scrawny? IDK! But it was for sure creepy! OK, there you have it. As always you know what I'll say next, so stop by Dead End Horror next week for all new stuff. Thanks!! Ohh and peep out Zane's stuff as well!! He likes it when people look at his stuff!
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