Scott LeBrun If you can't get enough of revenge sagas, this low low budget effort from the 1970s might suffice. The story is trite, but the movie has enough female skin and violence, and solid pacing, to help make up for any flaws. A quartet of degenerates are on a crime spree that includes the rape & murder of two young women. One of the victims was the younger sister of law student Cullen Garrett (Chris Mulkey), who's pretty damn angry as you can imagine. The men soon get picked up, but poor timing of the reading of the Miranda rights leads to them getting let go. Naturally Cullen is going to do something about this travesty of justice, his career be damned. He's not exactly the slickest or most well prepared of vigilantes, but he's got the tenacity required. Handsome character actor Mulkey, whom you may recognize from such movies as "First Blood" and "Ghost in the Machine" and the TV series 'Twin Peaks', does good enough in this early starring role. Polly King is appealing as his girlfriend Tracy, who's dismayed by the change in her usually low key guy. The four creeps are played reasonably well, with Wayne Crawford (who co-wrote and co-produced this with Andrew Lane) as the ringleader among them. (Crawford and Lane went on to be the producers of the cult classic "Night of the Comet".) In a supporting role you'll see William Kerwin, star of the Herschell Gordon Lewis splatter favourites "Blood Feast" and "Two Thousand Maniacs!", as Mulkey's lawman uncle, and his authoritative presence as an exploitation veteran really helps. (Crawford and Kerwin both act under pseudonyms.) There's enough bare female skin (King is nicely endowed) to keep exploitation fans content, and as always in this genre it's satisfying to see repellent characters ultimately get their just desserts. Daniel Schweitzer's Johnny gets particularly rough treatment. In the end, this isn't anything especially noteworthy or memorable, but it's adequate entertainment while it lasts. At least it doesn't go on too long. Seven out of 10.

Wizard-8 Though the premise of the movie is pretty simple, it still could have provided a lot of drive-in thrills. There is quite a bit of nudity and sex, the latter of which is occasionally presented in a way that's borders on the perverse (even in the non-rape scenes.) Despite this, the movie is pretty slow and not that exciting, though the climatic action scene has a few unintended laughs by the fact the passer-bys in the background can't seem to hear or see the ruckus going on in front of them. The movie also boasts what may be the cheapest and most hastily-built courtroom in cinematic history.

drzaius-2 This movie, like many low budget movies I've seen from the seventies, revolves around rape. Rape, rape, rape. I don't see how they find time to pack more rape in there, what with all the raping going on, but that Kerwin fellow manages to find room. I don't know about you, gentle reader, but personally I don't find movies drenched in rape to be my cup of tea (Rape Squad excluded of course). If you can look past the giant heaps of rape going on in this movie, you may find a couple funny, if not intentional, lines. At one point the cops are questioning some drunkard that they have picked up that claims to have witnessed one of the thirty-six HUNDRED rapes that goes on, but he won't talk until they give him booze. So finally the main cop gives him a drink, which the witness happily guzzles down. This makes one of the cops wonder out loud, "how can he drink that stuff?!" to which the main cop replies, "If you grow up eating shit, you think it's ice cream." I don't know about you, but I can tell when I hear good dialogue, and that was some GOOD DIALOGUE. There's also a funny part where Chris Mulkey, our "hero" of the movie, gets assaulted by the Rape Gang with an ice cream cone to the face! How savage! RAPE! It just occurred to me that there is some sort of ice cream theme running through this movie, but I refuse to even spend another second thinking about it.

William Chris Mulkey plays a law student whose sister was brutally raped and murdered by a group of drunks (led by Wayne Crawford, billed as another name). Mulkey quit school and kills them one by one DEATH WISH style. The film has some real brutal moments, and had to be cut to get a "R" rating. Mulkey wons some critical praises on the film LOOSE ENDS the same year, could've been a action star if this film was released wide. Dimention Pictures gave a platform release, making this a forgotten film.