Director: Curtis Hanson
Writer: Curtis Hanson
Composer: Charles Bernstein
Starring: Tab Hunter, Cherie Latimer, Nadyne Turney, Isabel Jewell, Linda Leider, Roberta Collins, John Aprea, Kate McKewon, Angus Scrimm, Frank Whiteman, Harve Selsby, Josh Green, John Pearce, Sandy Kenyon
More info: IMDb
Tagline: They take on all comers!
Plot: A handsome and lonely gym teacher Eddie Collins can't perform sexually due to his constant watching of his mother undress while he hid in her closet as a child. His only recourse is to kill the women he tries to sleep with and stash them in a pigeon hutch on his roof. He hires a prostitute to dress as his dead mother,the only way he is able to achieve sexual gratification.
My rating: 7/10
Will I watch it again? Yes.
Nice! There's a well-told serial killer story here the has the pretense of a cheap horror movie with lots of great nudity but it does have some good psychological moments that pay off in the end. Now I'm not saying there's a great movie in here somewhere but it is a good one. It's also Curtis "L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997)" Hanson's first movie. How 'bout them apples?
And how 'bout them cantaloupes? Tab Hunter does a good job and so does Nadyne Turney (as Barbara), the woman he frequents throughout the film and once more just before the end credits roll. There's a lot of this that looks like typical exploitation horror stuff, and it is, but there's also something else going on that elevates this a bit higher than your typical psycho killer movie of the day. The print I saw was a filthy fullscreen print with color issues. It's unlikely this will get a decent restoration and released in its original 1.85 : 1 format.
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