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Product Details
Slasher is a semi-comic and revealing documentary about the crude art of selling used cars in a hurry. Filmmaker John Landis, best known for some key 1970s and '80s comedies (Animal House, Trading Places), directs this warts-and-all look at the life and trade of Michael "the Slasher" Bennett, a California freelance salesman who travels the country mounting garish campaigns to clear car lots of old inventory. The film focuses on one weekend in which Bennett and his team of "mercenaries" descend on a lot in Memphis, attempting to unload 60 automobiles in 48 hours. Motormouth Bennett and his allies pull out all the stops (raffles, pretty hostesses, music) and keep intense pressure on themselves, revealing a few unscrupulous practices in the course of things. Landis finds moments of unintended and sometimes tender comedy everywhere, especially in Bennett's strenuous efforts to live up to the moral standards of his wife and children. --Tom Keogh
Product Reviews
 (2 stars) - Not worth $22.00
Don't spend too much money on this. The video is worth about $6.00. The moral of the story is you start at a high price, then you knock off $4,000 and the buyer gets excited. It's painful to watch poor people agonize over the monthly payments. I liked the main character, you sympathize with him, but not for $22. Just rent it if you want to see it.
 (5 stars) - True to life, great learning tool!
Having been in the car business for more years than I care to remember, this was a fantastic documentary. I bought this for my sales staff and had them watch it. Gave them a fresh perspective on how the public perceived them at their worst and their best. All too often we see only the bad things the net and TV post about the average car salesman, but this movie allowed the more human side of the sales professional. We are human beings, most with integrity and feelings, familes to feed, lives to live. You can only be taken advantage of, if you let someone. I get so tired of the crap the 'experts' spout about how the dealer will screw you. If the average consumer would simply do their homework, come to a dealership prepared, be courteous, yet knowledgeable, they'd end up with a much better deal and no one would havbe to be the 'bad guy' in the process. Great movie. Highly recommend to any person in the sales end of the auto industry. However, the average consumer, non auto employed, would probably not get too much from it.
 (3 stars) - Don't waste your money
I did not care for this movie..fell asleep twice..not worth the $20+ I paid for this
 (4 stars) - Dealer
As a car dealer in today's market it was a very scary movie. I have a dealership near an airport and the dealership in the movie reminded me a little of ours. It was so depressing to see the "slasher", a human being live his life this way and in my business I see a lot of individuals like this. Even more depressing the owner of the dealership like so many trying to make ends meet hiring an individual who will do anything to sell a car. As always the less fortunate such as lower income and bad credit customers are the target for these vultures. All in all the movie is actual and truthful of what the director was depicting.
(3 stars) - portrait of a tortured soul
I wasn't sure what to rate this film because I have mixed feelings about it. On one level it's a fast-paced look at how a used car salesman makes a living cheating poor black people (among others) out of their money. On the other hand, the Slasher is a deeply disturbed father never home for his wife and kids. I found myself getting angry that nobody cared enough for the star of this film to confront him about what he did to himself; in fact, in the featurette you can see the filmmaker trying to make him stand up straight for the camera while dead drunk. I kept wondering how his daughters felt about growing up with an alcoholic father with a beer in his hand every morning. I would very much have liked to see this film end with a scene in which the Slasher's so-called friends and the director gather around him and say, "We're taking up a collection to get you into rehab before you drink yourself to death. If you don't care about yourself any more than you do about the people you fleece, at least think about what you are doing to your family."
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