Young artist Rachel (Valerie Murphy) is murdered at her secluded lake front house by a group of seven boys. Enraged and shocked by his twin sister's senseless murder, Rachel's brother Travis (Sebastian Gacki) vows to avenge her murder and punish her killers one by one, even if it costs him his soul. Travis narrates this film and can't get his sister's voice out his head as she pleads for revenge from beyond the grave. Guided by his sister's ghostly voice that commands him to take brutal revenge, he hunts down each of the killers and punishes them in gruesome fashion. Sickened by the horror of his own murderous actions, and driven by his sister's vengeful spirit, Travis discovers a fate much worse than murder.
As Travis enacts vengeance for his sister, he seems to enjoy it. His body is a work of art, and the scene where he appears only in his shorts and tortures the equally unclad Alan (Dean Hrycan), who is tied from the rafters of a cabin, is one of the most terrifying erotic scenes ever filmed. Travis' penchant for rubbing the blade of his knife over the skin of the boys before killing them allows us to see the repressed sexual frustration of this avenger. In fact, the knife becomes a phallic symbol in this disturbing tale. After seeing the near-nude Travis get into the shower with one of his victims, the perfectly sculptured Max (Neil William Hrabowy), only to end up stabbing him, the moral of this tale of torture and revenge should be clear: supression of sexuality leads to destruction.
This homoerotic horror movie is carried by long and lingering photographic scenes and background music. There is almost no dialogue, only a few words of voice-over to give some structure. It's a near-silent, visually excessive mesmerizing cinematic poem with primal tensions, and is not for everyone. Dreamlike, disturbing, beautiful, and astonishing, with loads of visceral imagery, "Beastly Boyz" is a unique, original, and bizarre excursion into perversion. Joe Silva composed the incidental music. David Grove wrote the screenplay, and David DeCoteau directed.
