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The Mutilator
* Blood * Strong Language * Sexual Situations * Nudity * Extremely Violent * Very Gory *
1984/Color/86 Min./Vestron Video & OK Productions/Not Rated
Director.........Buddy Cooper
Screenplay.......Buddy Cooper
Music............Michael Minard
Producer.........Buddy Cooper
Executive Producer.....
Special Make-up Effects by Mark Shostrom, Anthony Showe, & Ed Ferrell
Dramatis Personae
Ed.................Matt Mitler (The Occultist)
Linda..............Frances Raines
Ralph..............Bill Hitchcock
Ed's Mom...........Pamela Weddle Cooper
Pam................Ruth Martinez
Mike...............Morey Lampley
Susan..............Connie Rogers
Young Ed...........Trace Cooper
Ed's Dad...........Jack Chatham
Ranger.............Ben Moore
Storekeeper........Fred Tillery
Storekeeper's Wife.Jenny Grice
Critique: WARNING: Portrayal of Sexual Mutilation. Don't expect snappy wordplay. You're embarking on an evenging with some pretty empty headed folks. the fishhook rape is a disaster. Matt Miller is not very good as the terrible acting blonde handsome man, Ed waving his hands and wildly happily relating-growling his fathr's murderous antics. kids fdrinhk natural Lite in cans. It seems that the quality of the movie picks up after the cheap intro. The music gets better, and the film seems better when the actors are silent. Mike is a dullard. Bad casting move. Great cheesy music
Line: All my life the creep's ignored me. He's treated me like some red-headed bastard
Plot Summary: As a mother decorates a cake, she is stalked. As the son Ed attempts tob clean daddy's guns as a present he shoots his mother dead. Just then father arrives and smashes his son across the face and drags her to the bar. where he drinks whiskey and pours some in her dead mouth. He hangs the sign, "All cleaning by me around his dead wife's neck. Now a young adult, Ed sits drinking with friends grumbling about the dim prospects for summer fun. Ralph, Ed gets a call with a message to call his dad, drunk dad wants him to close up his condo for the winter. Ed is bitter that all of a sudden "the creep" wants him to do something. The kids decide on four days of r & r atv the beach about which ed has a bad feeling. At Hallock Hall poor liar Ralph announces he can't go due to Sue's exam. As beer liar philosopher goesb into the store to get beer he fightsx with a black store owner and easily defeats him winning a mini discrimination suit for 10m % off his beer. They stop to take whizzes and frolic in their convertible before arriving at the condo at the beach apt. 4e. Dad usedc to tell me that he hunted everything but man. Unfotrtunately there are no cops on the island. Dad is a trophy hunter. They come upon a photo of a ripped up man "My dad ran over him with a ski-boat" Tales of dad's exploits chill hed's friends thus they investigate the bedrooms they find a mask dad stole from the mayan rain god chok from the Yucatan worn ar virgin sacrifices where virgins were shot with arrows or beheaded. Virgin girlfriend notes that dad's favorite battle-axe is missing. Ed agrees to inform the police on the morrow. Someone is waiting in the dark with said battleaxe. As the drinking party gets under way, we get images of the child Ed being kiled. The particularly objectionable couple, Mike and Linda, head out for a walk on the beach and then a swim. The swim doesn't go too well, as they have a slasher encounter. The friendly ranger comes by and they tell him about the missing axe. Unfortunately, his investigations soon come to a head. The blind mans' bluff game blunders along while we are aware of the now quite active mutilator. After the game a remarkable break in style transpires--Pam? tells Ralph she has something to show him when he gets back and the film speeds up as he leaves the room. Ralph pokes around looking for Mike and Linda. However, he ends up hanging around downstairs. Pam notes Sue and Ralph are gone and she and Ed begin to search for their missing friends. It doesn't end well for Sue who is horribly gaffed.
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