555

Plot synopsis:
While making out on the beach, a couple is attacked by a blade-wielding man dressed like a hippie. After beheading the man with a machete, the hippie slashes the woman to death with a dagger, then sexually assaults her corpse. Charged with solving "the Lake Front Butcher" murders (as the media have dubbed them) are Sergeant Connor and Detective Haller, whose main suspect is the man who found the bodies, a retired army colonel named Peter Wayne. Routinely intruding upon the investigation is stubborn local reporter Susan Rather, the occasional lover of Assistant District Attorney Ralph Kennedy.
Over the next two nights two more couples are butchered, one in their van, and the other in an abandoned factory. The modus operandi (male killed with a machete, the female killed with a knife and raped post-mortem) is the same, and the theory that Wayne is the killer is strengthened when he goes into hiding. Shortly after another couple is killed (this time in their bedroom) on the fourth night, Connor finds Wayne, who he had discovered had lived in at least two of the four cities where similar crimes (five couples killed over the course of five nights, each spree five years apart) have occurred. However, due to a lack of solid evidence connecting him to any of the murders, Wayne (who claims to have only hid because he believed Connor was personally out to get him) is let go.
After Wayne's release, Connor and Haller are approached by Susan, who claims that Ralph is the Lake Front Butcher. Susan explains that she had earlier snuck into the station to look through the case files, and found out that the ex-boyfriend of the very first victim (murdered twenty years ago in Massachusetts alongside her lover) was named Joseph Ralph Dwyer, which is Ralph's birth name. Searching for Ralph, the trio track him down to the abandoned factory, where he is killed in a shootout, though only after claiming the lives of another young couple, completing his pattern for the fifth time.

Tags: violence

Review:
Extremely rare slasher that's slightly different than other films of its kind....
555 is an extremely rare, SOV (shot on video) slasher flick from the 80s that brings something a little different to the table.
The plot concerns a cross-dresser serial killer who kills his victims on the 5th day, of the 5th movie, of the 5 year.
Back in the 80s and even today, rarely are there slasher films that boast a cross-dresser killer.
Nevertheless, it's a fun low budget horror flick that is underrated and almost impossible to get ahold of.
I of course think "555" is a superior very low budget video.
"555" has a story line and a plot as compared to most of the low low budget film/videos made at that time.
But, being a collector of just about all types of horror I figured I would go ahead and grab this obscure 80's slasher.Basically the storyline has to do with a killer that kills every 5 years for 5 nights in a row.
Does anybody care?This movie is filled with some of the worst actors I have ever seen.
The acting is so bad that it almost forces you to lose your interest in the movie, thus almost putting you to sleep.The only thing holding this terrible movie together is a few decent gore scenes.
For a movie on this budget the makers must have put all of there money into the special effects, which still aren't that great.Unless you are like me and have to own every single horror movie out there, I would suggest steering clear of this movie.
A true snoozer with a painful pace, weak "gore" which is pretty much girls getting blood splashed on them (from the *offscreen* kills of their boyfriends), ugly nude women, and acting so horrid it isn't even funny.
Nothing can save this film from it's incredibly boring and awful status, even the decapitation pictured on the video box (even though it looks cool).
The only following I see this one recieving is for one of those "ten worst movies shot on video" lists but it's probably too obscure for that.
This movie has it all: cutting edge visual effects, nudity, career-defining performances, blood, and a killer who yells "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO".
If you're looking for a good date film or something for the whole family to enjoy, be sure to check out "555" - the luckiest number in the whole wide world..
Of all the crappy, low-budget, gore-filled, cliche'd and unscary slasher flicks I have seen, there is something that is endearing and fun that makes 555 stand out amidst the other claptrap horror films.The film's title is laughable: 555, and its meaning is even more so: every 5th year, within 5 days, couples "fooling around" are murdered.
I still don't know, even though I've watched the film a few times now.One of the qualities that makes 555 so fun to watch is that you can TELL its been shot on a shoe-string: the cops on the case seem to all work out of one office: its bare, small, and easily a set.
The gore effects ( of which there are many) are gratuitous, at most times very much fake, and the screams from the victims are annoying as sin: you want them to die just so they'll shut the hell up!The actors, all amateur and some looking as if they were borrowed from the local porn studio across the way, all seem to enjoy the material.The lead detective, however, Greg Kerouac, shines above them with his hilarious outbursts and especially his confrontations with a reporter: she calls him an a**hole, and he shoots back with "And you're a c***!" Hysterical.
You can also tell the film itself was shot on a camcorder of sorts.Don't expect to be scared while watching 555.
It's campy, it's low-budget, yet it's also charming, managing to make the viewer care about a few of its characters, a feat which many multi-million dollar Hollywood production can achieve at all.7 out of 10..
Shot on video, this mystery serial killer would seem pretty typical of the '80s slasher genre, except for the cheap sets and the horrendous acting and bad writing.
And I do mean seriously bad, but strangely enough that's what adds the charm to this little ditty.
And, of course, its got sex and nudity and graphic bloody killings and even an attempt at a twist ending,(like anybody cares who the killer is).....
I've seen A LOT of gore movies in my day, but this one just makes me gag with with laughter rather than repulsiveness.
This is definitely a crazy movie and is very low-budget, I might add, but if you're able to look past the cheap audio, horrible dialogue, ugly girls, the obviously fake gore scenes, and overall cheeziness of the film, then you might find some of this film to be somewhat entertaining.
The story is about a copy cat killer who goes on a killing spree every "5th day, of the 5th month, of the 5th year" (wow, how original), and it's up to two detectives (one of whom gave a valiant effort at trying to make the crapy dialogue good) to stop the killer's bloody rampage.
The killing scenes (which are done with a plastic toy knife) are pretty brutal (which is a good thing), but very annoying due to the constant repetition of an obviously recorded scream (which is very ear piercing).
But, if you're a fan of gore videos, like myself, then you'll find something in this video to cherish like I did (the crap-talking detective...he's the best thing going for this film).
Other than that, all you're going to find is a bunch of senseless nudity (which is also a good thing, but too bad the girls are OOOGLY) and a very idiotic hippy necrophiliac serial killer.
While my childhood recalled a dark, slaughterhouse of decapitations and vomit inducing hallucinating gore set pieces, the real 555 film was a cheaply made detective thriller.
While delivering some bloodthirsty set pieces, the movie is mostly known for its VHS cover.
And while I respect the filmmakers addition to the VHS splatter film videography, some experiences are better left on the rental store wall display..
555 goes a good way towards upping the wrongness actually, there's a sexual aspect to most of the killings and the killer likes to bone chicks after he kills them so there's some good filth going on.
The kills are definitely the hook here, cool sleazy stuff with blood spattered breasts (the best kind of breasts), chest carving and even a couple of real nifty gore shots that wouldn't disgrace a mainstream production.
But aside from the killing, this is actually good fun stuff throughout, in fact I watched practically the whole thing sober and was rarely bored and I virtually never watch this kind of thing without regular booze intake.
Sgt. Connor is filth, to put it lightly, a, insanely aggressive and clueless individual who spends the entire film in a state of fulminating verbal violence so intense one expects him at times to blast steam from his ears, and is wonderfully, hilariously captured by one shotter Greg Kerouac (who in a sane world would have gone on to a lengthy and fruitful Hollywood career).
Technical aspects of this one are all perfunctory but doable, director Wally Koz apparently made the film because he thought he could do better than the average no budget trash of the era and recruited various of his family to the effort (yay them!), the results are perfectly reasonable for non professionals and the general ballsiness of the film make their work all the more commendable.
We've all been titillated to the brink by a movie's video box.
I must have passed this movie 200 times during trips to the local mom and pop video store in the 80s before finally deciding I just HAD to check this thing out.The film (woops..
can't really say that, can we?), or video, rather, is surprisingly much worse than one might expect.The plot is extraordinarily complicated (no, I don't mean in an intelligent way) for a production this amateurish.
And the sight of an actor (looking amazingly like John Astin of Victor Kiriakis/Days of Our Lives fame) succo'ing another actress, as well as our villain's knife getting stuck in an actress's prop chest during a kill scene are instant scene classics.
To top things off, the video feel of the movie lends a strangely arousing aesthetic quality (thanks 80s porn!).This is surely one of the great party films (see also: Back from Hell).
And to be honest, if you would like to see the movie in 5 minutes watch the ending, it's a flashback in the killer's mind.
The quality of the movie is okay, sound okay, no hiss, colors okay, black is black and not blue as in many low budgets.
there was nudity and violence for the pure sake of having nudity and violence, and the effects were just so so bad you would not believe it (think ketchup as blood, and cabbages for severed heads).
Filmed on a budget of $5.55.
The video box shows a character who has just had his head hacked off, above the title 555 in a generic font- and against a Pepto Bismol pink background carrying the disclaimer: "Caution: Viewing may cause severe damage to your brain cells".
The titles in the film are even displayed against a matching pink background.
Nor am I making up the scene where the killer bones a girl he has just hacked to pieces, before cast members have to rearrange furniture in the sparsely decorated set to argue about how to solve the crimes and catch the killer, who, incidentally, is described by a witness as a hippie.
Splattery little nothing, the violent kills are basically just someone off camera splashing a dark red liquid onto screaming topless girls, while inserts show a knife stabbing into styrofoam.
It piqued my curiosity then, as a fan of low budget sleaze, and when I finally managed to find a copy of it years later, was I ever disappointed.
I heard of this movie about 5 months ago and i wanted to see it mostly because of the campy title.
When i went into some old video stores and asked if they had the movie, they looked at me as if i was kidding.
I finally got a hold of a copy (and it was very hard) i was expecting a lot more than what it gave me.
I was expecting a very bloody nasty movie with horrible acting.
Well, it gave me the horrible acting but not all the gore i was thinking off.
To sum it all up, buy the movie if you can find a copy AND GOOD LUCK WITH THAT SINCE THERE IS BAIRLY ANY.
This one was pretty dull in some areas and isn't even what I would call a really fun viewing experience, but it does have many impressive redeeming points, including obvious ambition at trying to actually do a somewhat worthwhile SOV horror movie.
Some of the acting was terribly overdone (or not done at all), but most of the acting was good enough to be on par with a lot of Hollywood movies.
The overacting is on par with actors in John Waters movies, and the absolutely horrible non-acting is left pretty much to porno-star types who get offed really fast, so I don't have any qualms there.
Most of the gore is really hokey and obviously fake, but the beheading featured on the box is a stand-out effect because it does look EXTREMELY realistic.
The way they shot the film (mostly through boring wide shots) looks pretty bad and adds to the dullness of the talkier scenes, but even the talkier scenes have their moments, whether they be the "if-this-scene-were-shot-more-professionally-it would-be-really-good" kind of way OR whether they be more of the "Mystery Science Theater 3000" variety.
I think one of the many reasons I'm feeling very generous about my review for this undeniably bad movie is also the fact that I watched "Don't Go in the Woods" right afterward.
That one made this movie look like a classic, and IT WAS SHOT ON FILM!!!
I really think there were a lot of people who worked on "555" that had something most people who make awful horror movies don't have, and that is potential.
If you like goofy, sleazy, gory cheapo horror that's at least somewhat worth your buck, you might see "555".
It is definitely better than the movies those "Blood Cult" people made, as well as MUCH better than a lot of those Brain Damage movies..
555 is one of the best SOV movies I have ever seen.
It's very gory and violent and there are a couple of scenes that are almost unbearable to watch (like when the killer is rapeing a dead girl and when it gets a close up of the knife going into a young girl).
The movie trys to be violent and gory and it really is.
This isn't a movie for the little ones nor for the people who are weak in the stomach to unsettling things.2 out of 4 stars.Contains adult language, adult content, extreme violence, and sexual situations..
This "movie" looks like it was shot with a panasonic palm-corder, and the blood (which there is a lot of) is a clear purple substance.
I was surprised to find this movie at two of my local video stores.
There are a lot of funny parts in this movie that you will be talking about for the next few days.
"555" by Wally Koz tells the story of a sadistic maniac who butchers young couples having sex.After killing the woman our psycho usually rapes her post-mortem.It's up to Sgt.Connor and his partner to find the killer before he strikes again.So every 5 years on the 5th month for 5 days the killer kills one couple a night."555" offers plenty of cheap gore and nudity.The special make-up effects are also well done for the budget that this movie had as they include bloody decapitation,a knife through the throat and various topless girls stabbed in their torsos.The acting is amateurish and the cinematography is routine,but if you are into 80's SOV horror you can't miss "555".6 out of 10..
Unknown director Wally Koz makes an attempt for a horror flick, and for the most part, it kinda works.
The movie was supposed to be bloody and gory, which it is, but I couldn't help but laugh at the cheesy acting and low-budget make-up effects.
First of all, the movie is shot very poorly and the audio is very cheap, just like what you would see in a porno.
The movie is basically about a "the killer" who catches couples in the act of fooling around, so "the killer" does away with them in sickening ways.
Anyway, to sum things up, the movie cover is awesome, the acting sucks, the make-up effects (besides the blood) are pretty cool, and the storyline has some potential.
The movie is pretty rare (a good reason alone to rent it), but if you could find it, give it a try.
I bet that many of you have at times wondered what on earth motivates some of these B movie hacks to go ahead and produce the majority of the plop that has been transferred direct to video over the years.
He stated that after watching countless shoddy horror movies and feeling disappointed with their bargain bucket quality, he had told his wife that he believed that he could make something much better with no previous notable experience.
A psychopathic necrophiliac – now that's something that we haven't seen in the slasher genre before.Next we transfer to the office of the fiery Sgt. Conner (Greg Kerovac) and his partner Detective Haller (B.K. Smith).
They are interviewing the elderly walker from the beach who heard the female victim's final scream before discovering the bodies and also caught a brief glimpse of the killer.
The following night another young couple of lovers are ruthlessly slaughtered, and the detectives uncover a link with a spate of killings that have occurred every 5th month for 5 consecutive nights every 5 years.
It seemed a big surprise that their debut would also signal their departure from the movies, especially when you consider the fact that people like Ashton Kutcher and Sylvester Stallone continue to get work in Hollywood.
One guy gets his fingers lopped off ala The Burning and before he has a chance to scream he is decapitated in arguably one of the top three cinema beheadings ever filmed.
Dressing the killer as a sixties-era hippy may seem like a silly idea, but somehow it only helps to add originality to an offering that was certainly trying to be different from the start.Unfortunately the rest of the cast couldn't live up to the talent that was glowing from both Kerovac and Smith.
It seemed that director Wally Koz re-used an identical pre-recorded scream for each of the female victim's murders.
I guess the bargain basement sets also warrant a mention; especially the Police 'headquarters', which looked more like a refurbished broom cupboard!
An absolutely awful made-for-video horror splatter dud.
A majority of exclusively made-for-video low-budget fright flicks from the 80's invariably stink worse than raunchy old socks.
Gee, could be, man.) Boy, is this mentally unbalanced sicko one real way gone pup: After knifing his female victims, our certifiably crackers killer enjoys making love to their freshly slain bodies.
Too bad this flick is so poorly done; if it had only been made with a modicum of flair and proficiency it could have been a sleazy little gem of a horror exploitation item.
A bunch of couples are being killed and a girl is raped.
Police have only one suspect (Charles Fuller).Bad acting, lousy script, terrible special effects.