The Total Bastard Database

The greatest killers, madmen, monsters and maniacs in horror movie history.

SPOILER WARNING!!

All entries in the TBDB are likely to carry spoliers so if you ain't seen the movie they relate to don't read 'em!

RAY SAWYER

AKA:

Rick Cramer

WAS A BASTARD IN:

Venom (2005)

SO, WHO THE HELL IS HE?

Ray was a tow-truck driver in Louisiana. Other than being the local scar-faced weirdo he wasn’t such a bad chap. He
even helped to rescue an old Voodoo woman when her car was hanging offa bridge. Unfortunately, Ray went over
the side of the bridge to his watery grave in her place. Whilst drowning however Ray suffered the further indignity of getting bitten by a basket load of snakes the woman had in her car for some reason. Of course, being a spooky kind of lady these weren’t ordinary snakes, oh no, these were snakes that had sucked all the evil out of a load of murderers and nutcases in some weird ‘milking’ ceremony. Anyway, the end result of all this nonsense was that Ray was invested with all the nasty

wickedness and was able to come back from the dead as some kind of bad-ass super zombie whose sole ambition seems to be the standard kill-everybody-who-crosses-your-path kind of arrangement.

THAT'S NOT A KNIFE...

Being a gas station owner and tow-truck driver in life clearly left its mark on good old Ray as he is very fond of using his old tools for his new line of work. A particular favourite seems to be the simple crowbar (well this one seems to be something special actually as it is razor sharp judging by the damage it does).

WHY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHY??!!?

Ray’s motivation for all the murder is about as simple as it gets – he’s really, really eeevil. It’s ‘cos of those pesky snakes you see. There’s also some mention about him wanting to make sacrifices to the forces of darkness though it’s all left pretty vague.

SO, WHAT'S THE DAMAGE?

Ray’s indiscriminate trail of carnage is predictably long and bloody. Highlights of his unfriendly career are the death by high pressure steam stripper and pulling a man’s arm off and graffittiing somebody’s house with the soggy end of it.

IT'S A MILLION TO ONE CHANCE BUT IT JUST MIGHT WORK...

A few methods of Ray-disposal are attempted by the usual plucky teens. One of the stranger ones was to make a human voodoo-doll out of Ray’s dead son and stabbing it in the leg. More black magic is employed when our heroine nearly triumphs by erm…waving a necklace at him. In the end though, Ray is undone by the tried and tested technique of hitting ‘em with a bloody big truck. Which makes all his arms and legs fall off.

WORDS OF WISDOM:

“Grrarrgh”

By Matt Compton

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