Mike (Don McManus), the owner of a porn website, has a porn series entitled "Lucky Bastard" where he invites a fan of the website to have sex with a porn star on camera. After doing a background check on a number of fans, he selects Dave (Jay Paulson). To have his porn star, Ashley (Betsy Rue), agree to join "Lucky Bastard" takes more convincing---or, more specifically, more money. He sets up many cameras in and around a mansion which will serve as a porn set, and brings his film crew, Kris (Chris Wylde) and Nico (Lee Kholafai) along. Before the actual porn shoot, Mike buys Dave lunch and gets him acquainted with Ashley during which Dave behaves like an obsessive fan/stalker and causes Ashley to reconsider her decision to partake in the web series.

      More creepy than scary, Lucky Bastard begins at the very end where you see a murder scene at a mansion. Then the film flashes back to the events that led up to that murder scene, so you already have a preconceived notion that Dave will flip out and turn violent. The suspense and creepiness comes from the anticipation of when that particular change-over will occur and what Dave's motives might be. Writer/director Robert Nathan and Lukas Kendall drag the anticipation for quite a long time as Dave remains non-violent initially. Thanks to Jay Paulson's strong performance, you can sense that Dave has a lot of pent-up anger coming to a boil inside of him. The screenwriters bring that anger to a boil gradually, though, thereby building suspense very gradually. They provide you with a little bit of background info about Mike and Ashley to humanize them, but it's really the performances of Don McManus and Betsy Rue that add depth to their roles. It's also worth mentioning that, at times, Mike becomes just as unlikable as Mike---both of them seem to have deep-rooted issues that they haven't dealt with yet in their adulthood. That complexity makes Mike an increasingly interesting character and, like with Dave, there's more to him than meets the eye.

      Lucky Bastard's tension begins to wane once the murder and mayhem commences. Too many coincidences pile up during the final act, and the film gets rather talky and drags Dave's rampage longer than it needs to be. Also, by the end, you might wonder, "What is Lucky Bastard trying to say?" Is it saying that there are mentally unstable people out there who watch porn? Or that porn stars are human beings with feelings who join the porn industry because they have no other ways of making ends meet? Or that sex is all in your head, as one porn star says? Either way, neither of those are particularly surprising, deep or insightful enough to make the film as provocative as it could have been.