YMMV / The Shards

• Complete Monster: The Trawler is a depraved Serial Killer who targets Los Angeles teenagers to satisfy his twisted obsession with Robert Mallory. Behind a string of break-ins and assaults across the city, the Trawler uses these attacks to select victims for his murders. He stalks and psychologically terrorizes teenage girls by killing their pets before ultimately kidnapping them, at which point the Trawler spends days torturing and mutilating them to death by "remaking" their bodies into hideous chimeras via their own slaughtered pets' corpses. The Trawler then leaves their bodies on display as "art" for the public, inspiring and enlisting the Riders of the Afterlife cult to become "his friends" and commit further torture-murders in his stead. Once Robert dies and the Trawler claims one last victim in LA, he proclaims the city was just his latest spree in a "continuum" he will carry on elsewhere, and before departing he has Bret's beloved lover—and later, his dog—kidnapped, tortured to death, and pictures of the results sent to Bret.