A
drifter (Tony Crupi) who has escaped from
a mental hospital killing residents along
his journey. Along his way he stalks a
beautiful woman named Jessie (Molly
Cheek) who is preparing a dinner party.
He watches her every minute on what she's
doing.
He knocks on her door asking for food and
then hides out around her property until
her guests leave. One of her guests named
Bob (Chris Holder) asks her out the next
day and she accepts.
After
Bob leaves this maniac suddenly kidnaps
her and traps her in her house holding
her hostage cutting off her phone line.
She has tried to escape but he continues
to catch her and wants to keep her
forever.
Bob
continues to try calling Jessie but her
line is constantly busy as his friend
named John (Danny Bonaduce) teases him
that she is seeing someone else which
drives him to lose his sanity to even
kill himself to look for her and find out
the truth.
This low budget
clunker really goes nowhere as it's
mainly about people at a dinner party,
then a lunatic kidnaps her in her own
house and then another crazy person
crashes in.
There are some interesting and dark shots
in the film but that's about it. We've
seen this before many times folks and
nothing really to be scared about.
The acting is very
average and uninspired for this trashy
flick.
However, lead actress Molly Cheek
isn't too bad with her performance as an
innocent and beautiful victim as she
seems to have the looks and character.
She really knew how to scream as well
which is another good pointer for her.
Tony Crupi who also wrote this piece
seems to know how to pull off his role as
a demented drifter with his creepy looks.
We also have former child star Danny
Bonaduce from the Partridge
Family playing a kookie
character as usual and knew how to get on
your nerves too with his sarcasm. He was
okay but not award winning by any means.
Lead actor Chris Holder is fair
with his part and seems okay when he
loses it but I've seen better.
A lady's robe is
open as her breasts are revealed while a
killer drowns her
Molly Cheek undresses while taking a
bath as her butt and breasts are revealed
as well as a brief vagina shot. Yet her
face isn't shown during this moment as
you wonder if it;s a body double.
An eyeball is
stabbed out but the picture is very dark.
John McCauley
is quite cheesy with his directing this
piece.
The first killing scene is terribly
trashy and slacking.
We have a ridiculously corny dialogues
with Stuart Whitman and a
supporting cast playing police officers
at a station.
There is an impressive moment when Molly
Cheek is preparing dinner for a
bunch of friends and then answers the
door opening it a crack and being
cautious. There's a good camera shot on Tony
Crupi stading there saying he's
hungry as it looks believeably scary and
nice camera shots on him chopping wood
too while she tries to make him a
sandwich.
We spot another corny dialogue between Danny
Bonaduce and Laura Melton making
a cake for the dinner party.
All four cast members performed by Chris
Holder, Cheek, Bonaduce
and Melton all looked natural
when they are having dinner together
mingling with one another while Crupi is
spying on them and doing deadly deeds.
A perfect dark close up shot on Crupi
spying and creeping towards Bonaduce
and Melton walking to their car
as you wonder if they will be safe.
There's a good dialogue scene between Holder
and Cheek making out by a
fireplace as he tries to woo her but she
doesn't show interest.
We have a nice scary shot on Cheek
lying in bed and she turn around to see
that Crupi is there next to her.
Cheek performed well trying to
slowly untie herself while there's a
camera shot on Crupi sleeping on
a chair and slowly tries to escape
without him waking up which keeps you
peeled to the set wondering if she will
make it.
A good jumping moment when Crupi crashes
his hands through a glass door grabbing Cheek.
We have a cheesy moment with Holder
acting insane and violent towards Bonaduce
and Melton as McCauley tried to
make it look intense but didn't go too
far.
There's an interesting brawlin scene with
Crupi and Holder as
it's a nice example of two lunatics
duking it out to the death and Cheek
going crazy by all of this.
The music was
cheesy in a good and fun way with some
dark synthesizer and keyboard playing by John
McCauley as he also had some
adventureous music too to add to the
score.
Drifter:
This is nice
Jessie: If you really
want me I wont fight you (In an uttered
sob) I just don't want to die
Driter: Why? Dying's not
so bad
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