THE STORY:  With a title like that you'd expect this movie to be pure cheese, wouldn't you? I sure did. The cover had a creepy looking chick staring out of a window on it. Oh Goody! I thought. A cheesey revenge/slasher movie! I didn't even bother to read the back of the box, I just grabbed it off of the shelf. I was wrong about this movie, but the Inferno agrees that my mistake was serendipity!

Lets meet our characters...Charlie, his half brother Steve, Bruce and Bobo. These four men are on a hunting trip, driving to a cabin owned by Charlie in his RV. Along the way they pick up a young girl named Cindy. Cindy's hitchhiking her way to San Diego and is glad for a lift. Only these guys ain't going to San Diego. Charlie lies about their destination in order to get Cindy into the vehicle.

None of the problems that follow would happen if not for Charlie. You see, he's a Big, Dumb Jerk. He's clearly a racist, sexist pig and he plans on gettin' it on with Cindy. He doesn't keep that a secret either. He loudly announces his intentions to the entire group. For some reason he thinks Cindy is willing to, uh, service all of the men. Steve is against it. For that matter, so are Bruce and Bobo. When Charlie doesn't drop Cindy off as she expected but takes her with them to the cabin in the woods, she's pretty angry about it. Who wouldn't be? She's been kidnapped, technically. Steve tries to smooth things out and promises Cindy that he won't let Charlie harm her. Stuck with these men, at least for the night, Cindy doesn't want to be left to Charlie's drunken advances. She's given a room in the cabin but asks Steve to stay with her for awhile. She's terrified of Charlie, and even the joint she's smoking doesn't help her calm down. In order to get Steve to stay in the room she sleeps with him, willingly. But as the night goes on, Steve goes to another room. Bruce has already gone to bed and Charlie and Bobo are sleeping off their excessive drinking downstairs. Steve figures she's safe. Only she isn't. Charlie wakes up, gets Bobo and together they rape Cindy. This scene is kind of icky...well, rape is icky, but the camera focuses on Charlie's face as he's laying it into Cindy and the last thing I need is to see a big bearded Grizzly Adams-like dude shoving it to me like all get out. After the rape, Cindy gathers her things and flees into the night. In the woods she sees a mysterious figure, but keeps on booking. The next morning Steve is really pissed at Charlie. He finds a bloody pillow in Cindy's room and she's gone. He correctly surmises that Charlie did something to her. Charlie lies and says that the girl came out of the room screaming mad because Steve left her in there alone (Charlie and the others know that Steve screwed her). Charlie says she then willingly did the deed with him and Bobo and split. Steve kind of buys that, but not totally.

Time passes. Cindy has gone to the police and they arrest Bobo and Charlie. But the DA, Stark, tells Cindy that in order to nail Charlie she has to testify that all four men raped her. She's admitted to sleeping with Steve willingly, but at the time she was one week from her 18th birthday...in effect, a minor. This news has a devastating effect. Steve, a teacher, is suspended without pay while the case is open. Bruce, an insurance salesman sees his business go under overnight. To make it worse, Bruce's wife is a real battleaxe. The few scenes she's in she curses at him, belittles him and leaves him. (she's doing him a favor, too...boy is she ugly.) Bobo and Charlie are the only ones left with jobs. Charlie owns his own trucking business and Bobo works for him. I should mention that Bobo is Hispanic and Charlie treats him like [unwrite]. I can't see why Bobo even hangs out with this guy, since Charlie doesn't keep his racist views secret.

Since all of the trouble is really Charlie's fault he agrees to pay his lawyer, Jake, to represent all four men. But DA Stark has dropped the charges on Bruce in exchange for his testimony. The news doesn't reach Bruce in time. Depressed over all of this, Bruce kills himself. You know, its a good thing that Bruce was portrayed as being wormy and chicken[unwrite] and that he already has  tried to kill himself two years earlier, 'cuz all he had to do was tell the police what really happened (in his case, nothing. He was asleep and didn't know what Charlie and Bobo were doing) to get himself out of this mess. He knew what Charlie bragged about doing all day. Bobo's wife kicks him out and Charlie is really insensitive about it. Charlie doesn't give a flying f*** about any of these other guys as long as they keep their mouths shut so he can avoid going to prison.

Cindy on the other hand can't handle it. She's torn up when she hears that Bruce killed himself over this. She knows he's innocent and that Charlie and Bobo are the guilty ones, so she feels bad that Bruce and Steve have to suffer. She refuses to testify and wants to drop all of the charges. Again, a little too late...with his back to the wall, Charlie visits a mob guy, named Joey and arranges for Cindy to disappear before she appears in court. Basically he puts a hit out on her. When Jake tells him later that Cindy has dropped the charges, Charlie is over the moon...until Jake tells him that if he coerced or frightened her into dropping things Stark will have his hide in jail forever. Jake makes it clear that nothing better happen to Cindy. You can almost hear Charlie's mind going "Oh [unwrite]!".

Charlie visits Joey again to call off the hit. But Joey tells him that he's just the middleman. He puts the word out, sends the money to a PO box and that's it. He doesn't know who, how or when the hit will be executed. At least Joey says he'll try to stop it, but he makes no promises. Desperate, Charlie has one more idea. He talks Steve into calling Cindy. He asks Steve to take her to Hawaii on him, so she'll be out of town when the hit comes. By the time she gets back the hit should be called off. Steve is understandably super-mad at Charlie, but agrees. (Dummy) Steve meets with Cindy and tells her about the hit. Cindy is quite naturally, upset...but she likes Steve and knows he's innocent of raping her so she agrees to hide out in the cabin with him for a few days...until Charlie can straighten things out.

Are young people this malleable? Cindy was raped by Charlie! He put a hit out on her! The only reason she doesn't go to court is because she doesn't want anything to happen to Steve! I don't see it...Charlie is a class a scumwad. Why protect him just to keep Steve happy? (Then again, I don't understand how Steve could be in any real trouble other than the fact that she was a minor when they bumped uglies)

Steve spirits Cindy away to the cabin and they get along like a house on fire. The two actually do like each other and there's some mutual attraction going on. Which in a way is a little icky. Steve's gotta be at least 40 and she just turned 18. But then what do I know? Most 40 year old men would love to spend time with a pretty 18 year old blonde. The problem is, the hitman followed them. He's stalking around the cabin waiting for the perfect time to shoot Cindy full of holes. Of course there's a few scenes where he draws a bead on her, but she steps out of the way or Steve walks into the aim, just for suspense.

By now you're probably wondering...who the hell is Daphne!? I was too, but Steve explains this to Cindy when she asks why Charlie is such a racist jerk. Charlie was married, but had an affair with a black woman named Daphne. He used to bring her to the very same cabin. But Daphne really fell in love with Charlie (He must have actually been a decent guy once I guess) and asked him to leave his wife and son to be with her. Charlie refused and Daphne unleashed the hell that is a woman scorned. She tracked down Charlie's family and beat up his son, badly. Charlie in response beat the crap out of Daphne. Daphne, who went insane afterwards, was put in a mental institution. But the damage was done. Charlie's wife left him and took almost everything he had in the divorce. That's why Charlie doesn't like blacks, or Hispanics either.

Daphne does make an appearance. She's skulking around in the woods and kills the hitman before he can harm Cindy. The next day Steve makes a disappointing discovery. Charlie, Bobo and some other shmuck arrive at the cabin. Charlie says the hit should be called off by now and wonders why Steve didn't take Daphne to Hawaii like he requested. Steve tells him that she wanted to go to the cabin...and that he's noticed the trash cans have been rummaged through. Out of the blue Steve says its Daphne! She's come back to get revenge on Charlie! (How he figures that I don't know....its like Sherlock Holmes to the 10th power)

Charlie decides to go into the woods and hunt her down. He and Bobo look on one side of the lodge and Steve and nameless guy the other. They find Daphne easily. At least Charlie and Bobo do. Daphne stabs Steve a few dozen times killing him, while Bobo stands by too frightened or unwilling to help. So it turns out that Daphne got her revenge on Charlie and helped Cindy out too. As the film ends, Cindy and Steve decide to make a go of things. I don't really know what happens to Bobo...and really, who cares?

While the acting wasn't top notch and the dialogue wasn't awe-inspiring, this movie was pretty good. The little twists in it kept me interested. You have to suspend some disbelief (Cindy's behavior, Daphne's sudden appearance, Bobo's lack of a spine) but this movie is decent little piece of the 70's. I'm not sure who any of the actors were but that's not too big of a deal. Since I expected little I was pleasantly suprised to find a plot....and who Daphne really was.

Best Lines: "Well, read it, you little worm! Your name is smeared all over the front page!"- Bruce's wife when she see the news about Cindy's rape in the paper.

"If I hadn't shot it, it'd just run around and breed with a bunch of other dogs and there'd be thousands more of them...just like you thickheaded spics!"- Charlie to Bobo after he cruelly shoots a little dog. Now, tell me...why does Bobo hang around with racist jackass like Charlie?

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?:

1.) Why would Bobo even hang around with Charlie? Charlie makes Archie Bunker look like the founder of the Rainbow Coalition. If you were Hispanic or black or a minority of any sort would you go on a hunting trip with a big, burly guy that drinks a lot, is willing to rape women and constantly refers to blacks as "niggers" and Hispanics as "spics"? Is it just me or does that seem like a pretty dumb...and dangerous...thing to do?

2.) Good Grief! How many bottles of booze does Bruce Fowler have in his desk? He's getting smashed! I can see why too...his wife is a big ugly windbag....If I was married to that beast I'd be chugging Old Grand Dad too!

3.) Just how much money does Charlie have to throw around? He owns his own business, but how much dough is he raking in? He's agreed to pay the lawyers fee for all of his friends, his spends $20,000 to the mob to have Cindy "disappear", and when that plan goes bad he tells Steve that if he takes Cindy to Hawaii he'll foot the bill! He must be rollin' in cash like Scrooge McDuck! If Charlie has so much money why would he need to rape anyone to get laid? Guys that throw money around like Charlie would attract loads of women. I know that's kind of sexist, ladies, but hey, money talks. ( just look at the "Who wants to marry a Millionaire?" craze) I'll betcha Bill Gates will never have to sleep alone unless he wants to.

4.) I like nostalgia as much as the next man, but man, I'm sure glad the 70's are over. I'm so thankful that the black cop didn't have a giant Afro. (Man, when I see my pictures from back then I wonder how I stood up with all that hair!) But its not just the hairstyles...its the clothes. The big wide ass ties, the bell bottom pants, the psychedelic colored shirts...woof! Don't get me started on the freakin' humongous gas guzzling space-ark cars....

5.) For love of Heaven, NO  F***ING WAY!!! Cindy agrees to stay with Steve at the very same cabin she got raped in to hide out from the hitmen! Yeah, like a professional hitman wouldn't drive a few hours to the country in order to kill someone. Hell, they'd be doing the killer a favor by going to a secluded spot. Of course, its also ridiculous that Cindy is so easily talked out of pressing charges on Charlie for trying to have her killed.

6.) Steve instantly leaps to the conclusion that Daphne's stalking through the forest and is out to get Charlie. Being a Big Dumb Jerk, Charlie wants to hunt her down and kill her. Gee, guys, if Daphne's supposed to be in a mental hospital why not just call the place to see if she escaped? For that matter wouldn't someone have called Charlie already to let him know that homicidal mad woman with a grudge against him escaped? Wouldn't the authorities be combing area like the cabin to find her? And to give this dead horse one last swift kick, why is Charlie so gung ho on hunting Daphne? He just got out of the rape charge by the hairs on his chinny chin chin. Why not just call the cops and let them handle it instead of invite more legal problems?

7.) Joey was right...Charlie is stupid. Why go to the cabin if Cindy and Steve are staying there. You'd think at least from a legal standpoint that he'd stay a few miles away from Cindy.

NUDITY AND SEX:  Cindy's breasts are seen. She has sex with Steve and is raped by Charlie and Bobo.

HUH?:  At first I thought it strange that none of Bruce's friends thought to check in on him. Bruce's wife comments on the fact that he tried to commit suicide a few years earlier, and I thought "if his buddies know he's kind of suicidal, wouldn't they be concerned about Bruce harming himself seeing how his name is being dragged through the mud?" Well, predictably, Bruce does blow his brains out. Instead of being even a little upset Charlie and his lawyer, Jake, laugh about it! What totally Sh***y bastards! Jake's happy because he doesn't have to deal with Bruce's testimony and Charlie...supposedly a friend of Bruce...is relieved about it too. He doesn't even say "Omigod" or "Poor Bruce". He just laughs! The sad part is Bruce was really innocent! (Too add insult to injury for poor old Bruce, Cindy is more upset about his death than his friends!)

When Steve tells Cindy about the hit Charlie put out on her she must have temporarily insane. If I were Cindy I wouldn't give a rats ass if Charlie was trying undo the hit...I'd have used the phone in the bar to call the cops right then and there. (and made sure that I stayed in public.) She's willing to trust Steve! Why?!! Steve may not have raped her, but he's Charlie's brother...it could be a setup! She has absolutely no reason to trust Steve! They've only known each other for a few hours and he couldn't have been that good in the sack.

Its disturbing that Cindy keeps apologizing for causing Steve and his friends so much trouble because Charlie raped her. Wake up girlfriend, you were raped! Even though Steve and Bruce didn't actually rape you, they should be apologizing to YOU for screwing up your life. Steve is a freaking teacher! He oughtta be well aware of the consequences of picking up hitchhiking minors!

After Daphne gets her revenge on Charlie, Steve asks Bobo why he didn't shoot Daphne and save Charlie's life. Bobo starts crying and says he couldn't do it. He just couldn't shoot another person. I guess Steve buys that, but I think Bobo is lying. I think its more like Charlie mistreated him, pushed him around a lot, made nasty comments about his wife, referred to him by various ethnic slurs and was an all-around asshole. In short, all of the problems are Charlie's fault anyway and since he has no redeeming features whatsoever, Bobo just decided "F*** him...if the bitch kills him we're all in the clear!".

THE TALLY: The score in this movie may make you laugh...when ever something happens it gets all dramatic even when the event doesn't warrant it. But still, I enjoyed watching it and for the Inferno thats all that really counts. Five devils agree with me!