{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2015}} {{Use British English|date=April 2015}} {{Infobox film | name = Killer Bitch | image = KillerBitch FinalCover.jpg | caption = DVD cover (UK) | alt = | director = Liam Galvin | producer = {{ubl|Liam Galvin|Yvette Rowland}} | writer = Liam Galvin | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Yvette Rowland||Robin Reid|Alex Reid|Cass Pennant|Carlton Leach|Dave Courtney|Roy Shaw|Ben Dover|Kate Elizabeth Hallam}}<!--per video cover--> | music = {{ubl|Electric Eel Shock|Stefano Barone|Will Crewdson|Dead Family|Dean Rees|The Hyads|Isaac's Aircraft|MC Spanish Fly|Pussycat & The Dirty Johnsons|Rachel Stamp|Rotten Ped|Serotonin|Sid Sings|Sweet Felicity Arkwright}} | cinematography = | editing = | distributor = Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment | released = {{Film date|df=yes|2010|5|3}} | runtime = 92 minutes | country = United Kingdom | language = English | budget = | gross = }} '''''Killer Bitch''''' is a 2010 British action-horror film written and directed by Liam Galvin and produced by Yvette Rowland, Liam Galvin, and John Fleming.<ref name="British Films Catalogue">{{cite web |url=http://film.britishcouncil.org/british-films-directory?film_query=Killer%20Bitch|title= British Council's British Films Catalogue, 2010}}</ref> The film contains a real sex scene featuring Ben Dover which was filmed as hardcore porn but edited to softcore for the final cut of the film.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thejohnfleming.wordpress.com/2011/01/07/is-killer-bitch-worse-than-hardcore-pornography-and-what-does-the-dead-poet-william-blake-know-about-it/|title = Is "Killer Bitch" worse than hardcore pornography and what does the dead poet William Blake know about it?|date = 7 January 2011}}</ref> It also features a controversial sex scene with Alex Reid.

== Plot == A woman is forced into a deadly game in which she has to kill five people. If she fails, all her friends and family will be butchered.

== Notoriety == The film became notorious in the UK in August 2009, shortly after shooting started, when tabloid newspapers the ''News of the World'' and ''The People'' carried stories implying that the film's star, Katie Price's then-boyfriend Alex Reid had been involved in a "vile" rape scene and that ''Killer Bitch'' was a pornographic film.<ref name="People - 23 August 2009">{{cite web |url=http://www.people.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/tm_method=full&objectID=21617341&siteID=93463-name_page.html|title= The People, 23 August 2009|date= 29 April 2023}}</ref> This was challenged by Price who said that neither she nor Reid would in any way be involved in a film glorifying rape as she herself had been raped.<ref name="New York Daily News">{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/09/01/2009-09-01_british_model_jordan_writes_about_being_raped_in_ok_magazine_.html|title= New York Daily News, 1 September 2009 | first=Elliot | last=Olshansky | date=1 September 2009}}</ref> This further stoked controversy.

Reid was subsequently reported to have 'walked off' from the film leaving several of his scenes un-shot.<ref name="Daily Mirror 5 Oct 2009">{{cite web |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2009/10/05/jordan-s-lover-alex-reid-attacked-after-walking-out-on-gangster-film-115875-21723637/|title= Daily Mirror, 10 October 2009|website= Daily Mirror|date= 4 October 2009}}</ref>

The film featured crime figures& football hooligans: Dave Courtney, Roy Shaw, Howard Marks, Carlton Leach, Jason Marriner, Cass Pennant, Norman Buckland (The Guv'nor') as well as Page 3 models, boxers, cage fighters and martial arts competitors. The publicity storm surrounding the film in the UK was stoked around the world including Australia,<ref name="Perth Now">{{cite web |url=http://www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/jordans-new-man-alex-reid-stars-in-hardcore-porn-movie/story-e6frg30c-1225765680086|title= Perth Now, 24 August 2009|date= 24 August 2009}}</ref> the Middle East, India and the United States.<ref name="New York Daily News"/> and when, during post-production, Alex Reid won the British TV series ''Celebrity Big Brother''.<ref name="Sunday Herald"/>

Further controversy surrounded the film in March 2010 when the British Board of Film Classification, after four screenings, was said to be unhappy about the film's sexual content and would demand cuts to Alex Reid's sex scene with actress and producer Yvette Rowland.<ref name="Sunday Herald"/> In fact, they passed the whole film uncut with an '18' certificate.<ref name="Daily Star">{{cite web |url=http://www.dailystar.co.uk/posts/view/128255/MY-ROMP-WITH-KATE-S-ALEXMY-ROMP-WITH-KATE-S-ALEXMY-ROMP-WITH-KATE-S-ALEXMY-ROMP-WITH-KATE-S-ALEXMY-ROMP-WITH-KATE-S-ALEX|title= Daily Star, 28 March 2010|date= 28 March 2010}}</ref>

The original publicity for the film had said it involved real fights, real criminals, real sex; after release, the film's executive producer claimed "the movie features real violence, real gangsters and real hardcore sex scenes".<ref name="Sunday Herald">{{cite web |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/how-to-make-the-world-s-worst-movie-take-one-scots-producer-and-add-some-sex-death-and-mr-katie-price-1.1024604|title= Sunday Herald, 2 May 2010|work= Herald Scotland}}</ref>

== Reception == Reviewing the film, James Benefield of the ''Eye For Film'' website stated "None of the acting - including the stunt casting - is up to much... with such a dull premise and script, it's surprising Liam Galvin has assembled this notorious cast. The film's main loser is the viewer seeking it out on the back of the publicity generated by this casting."<ref>[http://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/killer-bitch-film-review-by-james-benefield "Killer Bitch" review], ''Eye For Film'', 10 May 2010. Retrieved 26 January 2015.</ref>

== References == {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{IMDb title|1624391}} * [http://www.britfilms.com/britishfilms/catalogue/browse/?id=4F42658A1d84d23627wYN240B50B British Films Catalogue, pub British Council 2010]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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