Six college students (three males, three females) head out for "four days of R & R at the beach" during the off-season. Since it's the off-season, the whole place is
deserted. Deserted...except for the homicidal maniac with the battleaxe, a
large hook and other assorted sharp instruments!
The basic story for THE MUTILATOR (or "Fall Break" as it says onscreen) is
pretty average for an early 80's slasher movie, but what makes the film so
memorable is its off-beat tone and then the sudden explosion of shocking
violence during the second half. The gaff scene in the garage actually had
me say "What the fuck?!" out loud. It was awesome!
Odd pacing, an up-beat theme song that's played at least three times, less than
stellar acting (but in a good way), lots of weird facial expressions, 80's
fashions,
one badly shot topless scene, an illogical reason for the killings, one dude staring at the camera, a short
blooper reel played during the closing credits and a few characters that are so
chaste that they would be more at home in a Christian movie. (I don't
think the Christians financed any slasher movies during the 1980's, but God,
that would have been magnificent.)
THE MUTILATOR might not be as bad ass as other old-budget 80's horror oddities
like
THE NAIL GUN MASSACRE
or
THE ABOMINATION, but it's still a fun ride. Recommended.
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
LADY TERMINATOR (1989)
"It says here, all three of these guys died with their cocks bitten off."
"I've heard of the ultimate blowjob, but this is too much!"
If I've heard this story once, I've heard it a thousand times: back in the 1800's, a woman with an insatiable sexual appetite (kinda like Ilsa) spends her days making love to men...and chewing off their dicks with the snake that lives in her pussy. Anyway, one day, some ding-a-ling slingin' cocksmith strolls in like a Old West gunslinger and long dicks her until the snake slithers out. He grabs the snake and turns it into a knife. Lightning strikes the knife. The woman is angered by this and yells, "Bastard! You tricked me! In 100 years, I'll have my revenge on your great-granddaughter!" What an oddly specific threat. What if he doesn't even have a great-granddaughter? And how come he didn't try and warn her? Anyway...
...one-hundred years later, his great-granddaughter is scuba diving when she wakes up tied to a bed and a snake crawls into her snizz. Next thing you know, she's walking naked out of the ocean and fuck-kills some punks on the beach. From here on out, the film is a bizarro world retelling of THE TERMINATOR complete with the terminator pursuing a woman, the dance club shoot-out, the car chases, the police station massacre, etc. As bad as it sounds, it's actually highly entertaining and a fun ride from beginning to end. Yeah, the budget, filmmaking skill and acting aren't up to the standards of a Hollywood studio film, but I never expected it to be.
If I was rich and had all the time (and resources) in the world, I think I would write a book or make a documentary about LADY TERMINATOR. There is so much going on in this film that you can't catch it all in just one viewing. On top of all the obvious THE TERMINATOR rip-offs, it also has stuff that was later used in TERMINATOR 2!!! Which is really bizarre. Example: the terminator running while chasing a police car, the terminator attacking the target in a mall and the terminator attacking a police helicopter. She also corrects the goof in the original film and has her headlights on while driving into the police station. There's lots of other bizarre things going on, but one thing in particular that tickled me was at runtime 46:50, the main actor sits down at his desk and there are two framed photographs from the fight scene at the end of the movie!!! Talk about foreshadowing!
Anyway, LADY TERMINATOR might be played off as a serious action movie, but you can tell that the filmmakers were having fun with the audience. It's completely nuts and that second half has so much gunfire it's ridiculous. It's obvious that the bullets have zero effect on the terminator, but they just keep shooting her thousands of times. They might as well be attacking a tank with a flyswatter.
Recommended for the open-minded and fans of such things. Double-feature with DEADLY PREY.
"I've heard of the ultimate blowjob, but this is too much!"
If I've heard this story once, I've heard it a thousand times: back in the 1800's, a woman with an insatiable sexual appetite (kinda like Ilsa) spends her days making love to men...and chewing off their dicks with the snake that lives in her pussy. Anyway, one day, some ding-a-ling slingin' cocksmith strolls in like a Old West gunslinger and long dicks her until the snake slithers out. He grabs the snake and turns it into a knife. Lightning strikes the knife. The woman is angered by this and yells, "Bastard! You tricked me! In 100 years, I'll have my revenge on your great-granddaughter!" What an oddly specific threat. What if he doesn't even have a great-granddaughter? And how come he didn't try and warn her? Anyway...
...one-hundred years later, his great-granddaughter is scuba diving when she wakes up tied to a bed and a snake crawls into her snizz. Next thing you know, she's walking naked out of the ocean and fuck-kills some punks on the beach. From here on out, the film is a bizarro world retelling of THE TERMINATOR complete with the terminator pursuing a woman, the dance club shoot-out, the car chases, the police station massacre, etc. As bad as it sounds, it's actually highly entertaining and a fun ride from beginning to end. Yeah, the budget, filmmaking skill and acting aren't up to the standards of a Hollywood studio film, but I never expected it to be.
If I was rich and had all the time (and resources) in the world, I think I would write a book or make a documentary about LADY TERMINATOR. There is so much going on in this film that you can't catch it all in just one viewing. On top of all the obvious THE TERMINATOR rip-offs, it also has stuff that was later used in TERMINATOR 2!!! Which is really bizarre. Example: the terminator running while chasing a police car, the terminator attacking the target in a mall and the terminator attacking a police helicopter. She also corrects the goof in the original film and has her headlights on while driving into the police station. There's lots of other bizarre things going on, but one thing in particular that tickled me was at runtime 46:50, the main actor sits down at his desk and there are two framed photographs from the fight scene at the end of the movie!!! Talk about foreshadowing!
Anyway, LADY TERMINATOR might be played off as a serious action movie, but you can tell that the filmmakers were having fun with the audience. It's completely nuts and that second half has so much gunfire it's ridiculous. It's obvious that the bullets have zero effect on the terminator, but they just keep shooting her thousands of times. They might as well be attacking a tank with a flyswatter.
Recommended for the open-minded and fans of such things. Double-feature with DEADLY PREY.
Look at the framed photograph. The screenshot above was at 46:50, the one below was at 1:10:05.
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