"Berserker" is a boring film. Apparently many films from the eighties slasher genre are pretty boring viewing. I do remember reading somewhere that Ronald Reagan had put a top to using investing in films as a tax write off. So, the question remains: How in the hell did a piece of s*** like "Berserker" managed to get financed?!
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It was the 80's...everybody was making bad decisions back then
shareYou make something that you can call a movie (i.e. that it's 70 or so minutes long), send it to distributors who buy these en masse and sell it to dollar theaters (aka the Roger Corman principle) or sell it to local VHS stores (aka the Full Moon Productions principle). Either way, the demand for these at the time was such that you'd probably get your money back, especially if you short change the production values and pick a cast of first timers or unknowns.
However, some people did it out of love for the craft or to have fun with their friends despite the lack of money. This movie is a cheap B movie but it has some craft to it, so who knows which reason the producers had to make it. Probably a bit of all of them.
That way of cheap moviemaking went away with the death of dollar theaters and small VHS stores, but came back in a way in an even worse mutated form now when filming equipment is even cheaper and everyone thinks they can make movies or act.
Today, your crap movie would end up on some on-demand service, cable channels like SyFy or online channels, but the profits from all that are way lower today.
Yeah.
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