Scrapbook (film)

Did You Know?

• 15 minutes and 24 seconds were cut from the film for its UK release.
• At the 2001 B-Movie Film Festival, Scrapbook won Best Screenplay and Best B-Movie Villain, both posthumously awarded to Tommy Biondo.
• In 2007, it won Best Feature at the Fright Night Film Festival in Louisville, Kentucky.

Plot

The film opens with credits rolling while a kidnapped woman speaks frantically in the dark with an incoherent female voice. When the door to the van opens, she discovers the incoherent voice belonged to a disemboweled woman, and a man reaches in and removes the body. A flashback shows a child named Leonard looking in on his half-naked, apparently aroused sister; she takes him into her room and molests him. A young man enters, disgusted, pulls Leonard downstairs, and rapes him.

In the present, Leonard has grown into a young man who kidnaps women. His latest victim, Clara, is tied to a chair in a large, unkempt trailer home adorned with photos and body parts of past victims. Leonard shows her his scrapbook, in which past victims were forced to document their horrific experiences, and tells her he plans for her to be his "last chapter" before he tries to have the book published for fame and fortune. He drags her into a room with "I'm winning" scrawled on the wall, then violently beats and rapes her and urinates on her.

Clara is repeatedly beaten, raped, and abused as she seeks escape. Eventually she realizes she must manipulate him through the scrapbook. Leonard begins giving her food and clothes. Clara pretends to want to make love to him, uses duct tape to tie his arms and legs to a cot, stabs the bottoms of his feet with a knife, and takes pictures of him in pain. She places those pictures in the scrapbook and walks away from the house.