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Written
& Directed by: Wes Craven
Starring:
Sandra
Cassel .... Mari
Collingwood
Lucy Grantham ....
Phyllis Stone
David Hess .... Krug
Stillo
Fred J. Lincoln .... Fred
'Weasel' Podowski
Jeramie Rain .... Sadie
Marc Sheffler .... Junior
Stillo
Gaylord St. James ....
Dr. John Collingwood
Cynthia Carr .... Estelle
Collingwood
Marshall Anker ....
Sheriff
Martin Kove .... Deputy
Release Dates: Theatrical:
August 30, 1972*Images
courtesy at: www.outnow.ch
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A
teenage girl named Mari
Collingwood (Sandra Cassel) is
celebrating her 17th Birthday
with her friend Phyllis Stone
(Lucy Grantham) by going out to a
rock concert to see their
favourite band called Bloodlust.
However, they walk around the
city looking for marijuana. A man
named Junior Stillo (Marc
Sheffler) claims he has marijuana
at his suite so they all go up to
his suite and a killer cult is in
the suite led by a man named Krug
Stillo (David Hess) who is an
escaped convict and he kidnaps
the two girls.
They all take the two girls in
the woods which is only 100 feet
from the Collingwood home where
they torture, rape and kill them.
Then without realising it, they
drop off their dead bodies near
the Collingwood's house where
they all take refuge not
realising they are Mari's
parents.
The Collingwood's find out that
they murdered their daughter and
friend so they seek revenge on
them by turning the tables on
them.
Well this film
didn't seem to be a horror film
at first but when you see the
elements used in it you will
think differently as it was kind
of a psychological horror
suspense movie.
It's very intense and disturbing
indeed giving out ideas to invent
a slasher flick as well as
showing youths never to enter a
place with someone you don't know
cause this can happen to you.
However, the story sometimes
weakens as it doesn't do much
after the fact these girls are
being tortured and killed.
This film was produced by Sean
S. Cunningham and of course
written and ditrected by Wes
Craven who would later
become icons for other cult
horror films like Friday
the 13th and A
Nightmare On Elm Street.
Although this film was bombed by
most other critics and wasn't a
mainstream film by any means it
still reigned as a cult classic
along with other non mainstream
horror films like My
Bloody Valentine, Sleepaway
Camp, Silent
Night Deadly Night and Demons.
There are many remakes on horror
films today and this would be a
great one to do as it can look
creepier nowadays.
The acting seems
pretty good although alot of
these cast memebers remained
virtual unknowns.
Sandra Cassel and Lucy
Grantham play off of one
another quite well as the two
teenage victims.
Grantham showed great
emotuions at being scared of what
was happening as Cassel
tried to be stable about stuff.
Cult actor David Hess
stole the film with his
performance as the psychotic
killer in the film proving to be
truly menacing and intimidating
with his part as you'd just wish
he was put out of his misery for
his evil doings with the innocent
teenagers.
Jeramie Rain you'd want
to smack the crap out of her for
being so skanky and nasty too.
She was terrific with her part in
it.
One of the most notable
performers in this film was Marc
Sheffler as the dimwitted
follower of the cult who had tons
of issues with his character as
you could tell he didn't like
what was going on but was too
messed up to do anything about
it.
We have a supporting role by Martin
Kove in one of his first
films as a dimwitted dipstick
deputy as his part was a little
comedic. It was an odd
combination as this film was
dark.
Sandra Cassel and
Lucy Grantham are stripped
naked in the woods while being
raped and tortured.
There's a cut off
arm.
A gruesome slit throat
A guy blowing his head off
A killed being devoured by a
chainsaw but it isn't too
gruesome.
Oh, and there's a scene where a
lady is about to do oral to one
of the killers well.... she...
well I don't want to get into it
so you have to see for yourself.
Wes Craven
marks his directorial debut with
this film and a great job he does
with his work on it.
He makes the scenes look
believeable and real with his
work on the two actresses
Sandra Cassel and Lucy
Grantham with their
reactions when they are
kidnapped. You will cringe
greatly.
The most intense work of his was
with David Hess and Marc
Sheffler's scene when Hess'
character tells him to blow
his brains out with his gun.
Extremely disturbing stuff and he
really coached Hess terrifically
with his agression and intensity.
A great scene was a dream
sequence between the two actors
Gaylord St. James and Cynthia
Carr when they make out they
are going to do a mouth surgery
to seek revenge on one of the
cult members.
Also, Gaylors performed well with
the chainsaw attacking Hess'
character. Craven proves
Tobe Hooper isn't the
brilliant man behing directing a
chainsaw killer.
Of course David
Hess composed the music for
this film as apart from being an
actor he's a musician too.
However, his music is too melow
and folk like for a horror film
like this.
Krug
Stillo: Piss your pants!
Phyllis Stone: What?
Krug Stillo: I said
"Piss your pants"!
Phyllis Stone: You sick
mother!
Krug
Stillo: Listen to daddy. I
want you to take the gun, and I
want you to put it in your mouth,
and I want you to turn around and
blow your brains out. Blow your
brains out, BLOW YOUR BRAINS OUT!
DVD
Features:
- Available
Audio Tracks: English
(Unknown Format)
- Commentary
by: director Wes Craven
and producer Sean
CunninghamUnknown Format
- Outtakes
and dailes with
never-before-seen
footage, including the
lost murder sequence
(never been seen in any
form) and the
disembowelment scene
- Making-of
documentary (30 min.)
- "Forbidden
Footage" featurette
exploring the film's most
shocking scenes
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