"Victims!" follows two psychopaths who go on a killing spree in Los Angeles before accosting a group of female campers in the San Gabriel Mountains and turning their excursion into a nightmare.
This extremely obscure no-budget slasher film from 1985 would likely have been lost to the sands of time had Slasher Video/Olive Films not resurrected it on DVD and Blu-ray several years ago (albeit in a dismal-quality print ripped from VHS, apparently the best elements that could be found). "Victims!" begins in a slapdash manner, with a montage of disparate arbitrary murder sequences that occur one after the other with no context. Almost immediately, the film gives the sense that it was cobbled together in a fairly thoughtless manner, and, well--that's because I'm sure it was.
The film does begin to come together to some degree as it progresses, following the women's abductions and torture at the hands of the two villains. While it's difficult to comment on the artistic merit of its visuals given that the source materials here are so lo-fi, it can be said that the film does have a nasty blunt edge to it, and the sequences wash over you in a way that renders the whole thing feeling like a hazy bad dream.
While there is little to base an argument on that "Victims!" is a good film, fans of Z-grade obscure horror will find this to be a semi-interesting curio. The only way I can describe it is if Doris Wishman had directed "Last House on the Left," and if you know what I mean by that, then this movie is for you. 6/10.
This extremely obscure no-budget slasher film from 1985 would likely have been lost to the sands of time had Slasher Video/Olive Films not resurrected it on DVD and Blu-ray several years ago (albeit in a dismal-quality print ripped from VHS, apparently the best elements that could be found). "Victims!" begins in a slapdash manner, with a montage of disparate arbitrary murder sequences that occur one after the other with no context. Almost immediately, the film gives the sense that it was cobbled together in a fairly thoughtless manner, and, well--that's because I'm sure it was.
The film does begin to come together to some degree as it progresses, following the women's abductions and torture at the hands of the two villains. While it's difficult to comment on the artistic merit of its visuals given that the source materials here are so lo-fi, it can be said that the film does have a nasty blunt edge to it, and the sequences wash over you in a way that renders the whole thing feeling like a hazy bad dream.
While there is little to base an argument on that "Victims!" is a good film, fans of Z-grade obscure horror will find this to be a semi-interesting curio. The only way I can describe it is if Doris Wishman had directed "Last House on the Left," and if you know what I mean by that, then this movie is for you. 6/10.