The Defilers
The Defilers
| 01 October 1965 (USA)
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Two young thugs kidnap a young girl and keep her in the basement of an old warehouse where they forcibly make her their sex slave.

Reviews
Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!
Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!
Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
amosduncan_2000 Just because a movie is bargain basement explotation does not mean it's any good. The soft core sex scenes bores, the "roughie" scenes are dull and repelant. The wrap around story is barely there. I like he half hearted attempt to give this some weight by showing the mean defiler's parents. A film with little to reccomend it.
Michael_Elliott The Defilers (1965) ** (out of 4) Friends Carl (Byron Mabe) and Jameison (Jerome Eden) have a lot of great things going for themselves and especially when it comes to women. They've slept with most of the ones in town but when they meet Jane (Mai Jansson) they have different plans for her. Those plans include kidnapping her and forcing her into a warehouse where they're going to hold her as a sex slave. THE DEFILERS often gets called one of the best "roughies" from this period and I will admit that it's a notch or two above most but it's still far from a "good" film. I've always found these roughies to be a rather strange genre but what's even stranger is how popular they were back in the day. The female abuse here is all over the map but there's an early scene where a woman doesn't behave so the guy pulls her panties down right there and spanks her very violently. There are a few other scenes of women being slapped around but there's nothing overly graphic here. The rape sequences all take place off camera so there's nothing like that either. There is plenty of female nudity all around as every woman in the cast takes her clothes off at some point. The performances aren't all that bad and there are a few good touches from the director. THE DEFILERS isn't the greatest film in the world but it's certainly not the worse either. Fans of the genre should enjoy it.
Michael O'Keefe Actually above average Drive-In "make out" flick. A depraved story line with bare bouncing boobs and more. THE DEFILERS is directed by R. Lee Frost and is the sordid story of two young men who love to drink and have their way with nice looking young women. Carl Walker Jr.(Byron Mabe)and his pal Jameison(Jerome Eden), just for kicks, kidnap a sexy blonde(Mai Jansson)and take her to the basement of one of Carl's father's warehouses. There kept in panties and bra, the young woman is their own personal sex slave. "Rough" sex, sick and depraved. Photography is pretty damn good for a sleaze feature. Daring full female nudity and the girls are not run-of-the-mill "woofers". Exploitation...you betcha! Worth watching...you betcha! Also in the credits: Kathy Sharpe, Carol Dark, Linda Cochran and Sandy Sind.
archive1 This is a great DVD package from Something Wierd with two early sixties exploitation classics ("the Defilers" and "Scum of the Earth"), two great short subjects, three drive-in intermission promos(if you don't believe this world is gone forever, check out the butter-and-red-meat saturated 'refreshments' offered by the friendly drive-in snack bar!) , a great commentary track by David Friedman tracing the history of West Coast poverty-row movie production, and a dozen cool trailers for such masterpieces of cinema as "Banned" and "Sex Killer"! The folks at Something Wierd should be commended for a great job of packaging which captures the time period better than a thousand pretentious documentaries! For fans of the genre, I would give the DVD an eleven!Of the two features, "the Defilers" is the'better' of the two, almost artistic in some sections, and although it's very tame by today's standards, I personally think it is a thousand times more sensual and interesting than the pro-forma 'erotic thrillers' the industry turns out today.