Sick young man drives around in his daddy's camper, looking for lone stray females to kidnap, torture, rape, and murder.Sick young man drives around in his daddy's camper, looking for lone stray females to kidnap, torture, rape, and murder.Sick young man drives around in his daddy's camper, looking for lone stray females to kidnap, torture, rape, and murder.
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- TriviaThe excerpt from the Italian movie "Grunt!" showing an ape removing his head and using it as a rocket to blast off into the sky was also featured in Troll 2. In both cases, it's a movie shown within the movie. In Troll 2, a group of young guys in an RV are watching the ape movie on television, and here it's at a drive-in.
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Girl #1: Hey, Mr. Ray-Ban. A bunch of us are going down to the beach for the Madonna concert. It's gonna start in a little while. You wanna come?
[Mark doesn't respond]
Girl #1: Hey, so what do you say? Do you wanna come?
[Mark is still unresponsive]
Girl #1: Hey, who do you think you are, Mickey Rourke?
Girl #2: Hey, Maggie, let him go.He looks like a fag to me anyways.
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Psycho in a Winnebago.
Umberto Lenzi is perhaps best known for his zombie and cannibal movies of the early '80s: the derivative but gory Eaten Alive!, the silly but fun Nightmare City, and the spirited nasty Cannibal Ferox. He's certainly not so fondly remembered for his later movies, which include this frustratingly dull psycho thriller that possesses a mean-spirited tone, and boasts a fair amount of sleaze, yet still manages to be both tedious and rather dumb.
Joe Balogh plays rich kid Mark Glazer, who cruises the highways in his daddy's Winnebago picking up young hitchhikers to torture, rape and kill. After seeing pretty blonde Daniela Foster (Josie Bissett) dancing at a campsite, he decided to make her his next victim: when she storms out of a bar following an argument with boyfriend Kevin (Jason Saucier), Mark is there to offer her a lift to the bus station. She doesn't make it. Instead, she spends days shackled in the RV being abused by crazy Mark, who has confused the girl for his long-gone mother, who ran off with the tennis coach when Mark was ten. Meanwhile, Kevin is combing the area for his missing girlfriend.
Much of the movie focuses on the mind games played by captor and captive, and with neither Balogh or Bissett being great actors, these scenes are interminably boring. The film is much better when its being more exploitative: the opening murder of a gorgeous blonde is promisingly lurid; Daniela's attempted seduction of Mark delivers lots of nudity; a wet t-shirt competition at a family waterpark is totally unnecessary, but welcome; and the torture of Kevin provides the gore (the nut-job carving the word 'PIG' into Kevin's chest with a switchblade).
As far as the dumb stuff goes, the daftest scene sees Daniela wasting a prime opportunity to smash a vodka bottle over a sleeping Mark's head, although the twist ending is almost as unbelievable (it was apparently tacked on leave things on a happy note).
Joe Balogh plays rich kid Mark Glazer, who cruises the highways in his daddy's Winnebago picking up young hitchhikers to torture, rape and kill. After seeing pretty blonde Daniela Foster (Josie Bissett) dancing at a campsite, he decided to make her his next victim: when she storms out of a bar following an argument with boyfriend Kevin (Jason Saucier), Mark is there to offer her a lift to the bus station. She doesn't make it. Instead, she spends days shackled in the RV being abused by crazy Mark, who has confused the girl for his long-gone mother, who ran off with the tennis coach when Mark was ten. Meanwhile, Kevin is combing the area for his missing girlfriend.
Much of the movie focuses on the mind games played by captor and captive, and with neither Balogh or Bissett being great actors, these scenes are interminably boring. The film is much better when its being more exploitative: the opening murder of a gorgeous blonde is promisingly lurid; Daniela's attempted seduction of Mark delivers lots of nudity; a wet t-shirt competition at a family waterpark is totally unnecessary, but welcome; and the torture of Kevin provides the gore (the nut-job carving the word 'PIG' into Kevin's chest with a switchblade).
As far as the dumb stuff goes, the daftest scene sees Daniela wasting a prime opportunity to smash a vodka bottle over a sleeping Mark's head, although the twist ending is almost as unbelievable (it was apparently tacked on leave things on a happy note).
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