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Maris</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer....Mark Cusumano</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects by Bob Shelly</B></div> <div> <B>Story by James Lowe & Eddie Krell & Richard Yalem</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Paul............Turk Cekovsky </B></div> <div> <B>Susan Norcross..Debi Chaney</B></div> <div> <B>Larry...........Terry Ten Broek</B></div> <div> <B>Stern...........Barron Winchester</B></div> <div> <B>Andrews.........Bob Winters</B></div> <div> <B>Mack............Garrett Bergfeld</B></div> <div> <B>Charlie.........Nick Panouzis</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: A fairly standard, cheap (dark, poor film quality, cheap music, echoing rattles, etc.) exploito horror movie just decides to pack it in and subject the viewer to a tedious detective yarn. This is Charlie's movie! Some of the decisions made by a director can be truly baffling. Perhaps Nick Panouzis had just had enough. Anyway, not very interesting. Or maybe they thought the fledgling affair between the wooden Debi Chaney and the boring romantic lead Turk Cekovsky would drive the action? The vigilante syndicate is just painful to watch and as the cops close in on them we can only hope you've fallen asleep. Better (safer anyway) than sleeping pills if you have a vcr. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: St. Louis 1977. Jenny Thompson's roommate (Susan Narcross) finds her hanging around on a spear. It appears that her date with Charlie had been a bust. Charlie seems to be having Vietnam flashback problems. Next he picks up a hitchhiker at whom he refuses to look. That's trouble. The hitchhiker is oblivious to Charlie's ominous behavior, failing to catch some pretty obvious hints. Soon, the shell-shocked Charlie takes her to a secluded lake and no sooner do they get there and she takes off her clothes to go skinny dipping. We think you can imagine what happens next. When Charlie hides out in a barn, naturally another lone attractive female wanders into his path. Bad luck. Meanwhile, some buddies of Charlie's are meeting to discuss the "flake" Charlie. We thought this was a pretty mild moniker for their serial killing pal. The boys are apparently a vigilante group, condemning to death those who escape conventional justice. Susan's boss, Andrews, (one of the vigilantes) had given Charlie an interview, and this links Charlie to them. The detectives come by to harass Andrews, suspicious that he would give an interview to a marginal character like Charlie, but they are stonewalled. Andrews' daughter Melissa had been killed by a Lewis Bricker. The charges were dismissed, but Bricker suspiciously hung himself. It was ruled a suicide. It remains unclear how the cops know about the other vigilante hanging-jukkubg? The cops are investigating some suspicious suicides--none of them had any food before hanging themselves. Back with Charlie, he's flashing back to his first murder - that of a Vietnamese hooker. Charlie diverts himself by heading into another house and finding a cleaver that he judges to be perfect. This time it's a traditional woman in the bath who's in trouble. The vigilantes have meanwhile decided that Susan is becoming a pain. They decide to expand their franchise to people who have escaped justice and Susan. Inevitably, however, Susan has struck up a romance with one of the detectives. However, it is hard to care because the last part of this movie devolves into a limp detective drama.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>