ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Michael_Elliott Victims! (1985) ** (out of 4)Two lunatics are running around town killing anyone they cross paths with. At the same time four female friends are hopping in their car for a camping trip and sure enough both sides eventually meet up.VICTIMS! is a film I had never heard of until it hit Blu-ray and after watching the film I'm a bit shocked that it doesn't have more of a following. With that said, there are countless flaws in the movie that prevent it from being what I'd consider "good" but at the same time there's enough decent "slasher" things here to make it worth watching.The film starts off in an incredibly fast mode as we get three killings within the first couple minutes of the movie. Being in the era of the slasher, the killings are quite gory as director Jeff Hathcock obviously knew who him main audience was going to be. The film gets off to a fast start and things really don't slow down as these maniacs run into several other people with gore that follows.So, what happens? For some reason all of the killings pretty much come to a complete stop once the two killers and the four females meet up. The film completed changes gears and to be honest with you it gets very boring very quickly. It's really too bad the wild, over-the-top style that was the first part of the movie didn't continue throughout. I'm not sure if these earlier scenes were shot afterwards when they realized there wasn't enough gore or what but there's no question that they are missed during the second half.Those who complain about horror films being misogynist will certainly hate this picture. There's a lot of women murdered. There's a lot of nudity. There's even some sexual torture as two of the ladies are forced to make out with one another. VICTIMS! is a pretty nasty little film and I just wish it had kept this up the entire time. At 76- minutes it's still worth watching for the nasty stuff.

Scott LeBrun "Victims!" is an ultra cheap, ultra crude exploitation feature notable for a misogynistic edge. Two lowlife bad guys played by Robert Axelrod and Lonny Withers go on a crime spree, and target four nubile ladies. These ladies have gone into a remote part of the desert to supposedly study rock formations for a geology class, but seem to be more interested in having fun. The cretins proceed to humiliate the gals for an extended period of time.Written by John O'Hara and directed by Jeff Hathcock, this movie looks and sounds pretty damn bad. But the writer & director know what their audience demands, and deliver various scenes of nudity and degradation. They get off to an awfully funny start with a couple of random scenes of tacky violence. Soon, they ease into what passes for this movies' story. Still, even at a running time of a mere 77 minutes, they're obliged to pad the thing as much as they can.The largely unattractive cast give what are some of the worst performances to be seen in this genre. Only Axelrod had a somewhat decent career after this, turning up in some of the Charles Bronson / Cannon Group pictures as well as the remake of "The Blob". That said, these performances *are* fairly amusing in their badness. Axelrod and Withers are stone cold creeps, and a flashback late in the movie reveals the origins of their hatred for women.And that music score! Composed by Glenn Baxley, it's a mind boggling assortment of inane, keyboard and piano based drivel.If the photography were of a higher quality, the use of the desert locations would come off better.This is worth a gander if you're interested in unearthing obscure trash movies, but be warned that it's more tedious than other cinema of its kind.Five out of 10.

EyeAskance A woefully pissant underachievement that reeks of a very uncool type of misogyny, VICTIMS finds a circle of young female geology students enjoying a relaxing expedition at some nameless middle-of-the-desert location(not the most appealing environment, but it's free to film your movie there). The girls are latterly besieged by some boneheaded creeps armed with hunting rifles on a rape-and-torture excursion. Not surprisingly, the proverbial tables are turned, and the morons are hit with their deserved comeuppance.Obviously drawing its feeble inspirations from an orbit of vastly superior films like LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT and I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, this hack-job of a non-thriller is so unskillfully forged that it boggles the mind to know it was given even minimal home video distribution. Were it not for gratuitous nudity and a light peppering of semi-micro-potent moments, VICTIMS could have been a lightweight contender for ALL-TIME WORST accolades, and although it may have Lilliputian advantages over famously awful films such as ROBOT MONSTER or THE CREEPING TERROR, its flagrant brutish machismo is so abject and gross that it registers as somehow worse than those films in a roundabout, off-the-charts sort of way. Blecccch.3/10...avoid this cinematic hemorrhoid.

FieCrier The opening scenes before the title involve women being killed by blades, and then some cross-dressing guy who attacks a woman getting chased and caught. There's a voice-over perhaps relating to that that was cut off on the videotape I watched.Following that, a couple guys do a robbery, steal a car, sneak up on a couple having sex in a field, kill the guy and rape the woman and steal their car.Following that, four women go on a geology field trip, and they're unwittingly followed by the two robbers. Predictably, they get stranded and raped, and then fight back. Some Vietnam flashbacks are thrown in to provide some backstory for the two robbers. The ending scenes take place in a police station.It's not absolutely awful, but it's pretty cheap. Possibly older than 1985, though it references the "Two Wild and Crazy Guys" sketch from Saturday Night Live, whenever that was.