6/10
an early slasher without blood
21 March 2013
Much acclaimed flick this is. It's clear who the killer is from the first moments. But it's notorious for the reason that no weapons are used to kill the victims. No guns or knifes. That makes it an original slasher. It's not gory or even bloody because it's made just before the gory effects came in with Friday the 13th (1980). It's even not scary like Halloween (1978) but it's worth a look.

Just look for a few names to see, Andrew Stevens (Mark) maybe the most famous one but there's also Derrel Maury (David) and of course Kimberley Beck (Theresa) who goes full frontal here and moved further to Friday The 13th The Final Chapter (1984). But not only the thespians became famous in their era, there's also Rene Daalder, the Dutch director who was asked by Russ Meyer to direct this flick, together they made the never-completed collaboration with The Sex Pistols on Who Killed Bambi? Daalder also made video clips afterwards and was consultant and designer for FX for Robocop 2 (1990) and The Lawnmower Man (1992) amongst others.

With it's grainy look it do adds something toward this early slasher. It do has a bit of gratuitous nudity when a trio is having sex in a tent. Bring back the time when save sex was out of the question. No adults in this flick are shown, also something weird and it do has political undertones. Almost no blood, maybe it was a love story after all....Having no US release up to this writing it is available in the UK and Germany on the X-rated label still 666 copies were made. A cult classic with a lot of following.

Gore 0,5/5 Nudity 2/5 Effects 1/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 0/5
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