Director: Wes Craven
Year Released: 1972
Rating: 0.0
Unbelievably bad first film from now-famous director Wes Craven is actually a rip-off of Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring: two girls go to a rock concert, try to score some dope, wind up getting trapped in a house full of four of the World's Dumbest Criminals (who escaped from prison) where they are raped, beaten, humiliated and tortured, and then, after that driven around to a field where they are raped and beaten and chased around some more, and eventually killed, only for the killers to discover that the field is right by the one girl's house (how ... coincidental). Then, they decide to stay the night in the girl's house (this maneuver is inexplicable) and are brutally killed by her parents. The soundtrack is inappropriate (awful country songs play over the rape sequences) and the acting and dialogue is of a B to C grade quality (in the film's first scenes, the lead girl, whose nudity is romanticized, discusses with her father how she likes to have her nipples showing through her shirt - do all daughters discuss this with their parents?); also, there are some side bits involving bumbling police officers that have no place in here and only break up the film's momentum. Perhaps, and this is a perhaps, it would have been more effective if it didn't play out like a cheesy student film.
