Film takes place in Massachusetts (obviously it was shot in Spain). It starts in the 1940s with a mother catching her young son putting together a jigsaw puzzle of a naked woman. She freaks out, yells at him and orders him to get a plastic trash bag (which didn't exist in the 1940s). He leaves, comes back in with an ax and hacks mommy to pieces. That's the OPENING SCENE!!!! Then it cuts to 1983 at a college where somebody is hacking young female students into pieces. But who...and why? You won't really care.
Aside from Christopher George and Lynda Day George all the actors are (badly) dubbed (I love how the dean of a MA college has an ENGLISH accent). The story doesn't make a lick of sense, the gore is explicit and pretty sick (this was released unrated in the US) and it's surprisingly dull at times. Even the casting was way off--one of the characters is (purportedly) the school stud but he's played by a short, below average looking guy with no body whatsoever! There's a sequence with him and a woman in bed which is hilarious.
Basically this film was made to show off tons of blood and gore. I have no problem with that at all--but that's all the movie has. Supposedly the dreadful dubbing was purportedly done badly so people would laugh at it....but it's kind of hard to laugh at any movie which is shoving VERY explicit gore in your face. I saw it in a theatre in 1983 and no one laughed once. The stupidest murder has to be when one girl is decapitated by HEDGE TRIMMERS--in broad daylight--on a college campus--and NOBODY SEES ANYTHING! That's about when I gave up on the film--they're treating the audience like they're full of idiots. And the final revelation of who the killer is was predictable and there's a truly pathetic "shock" at the end.
A very sick, nasty, stupid, dull horror film. For gore completists only
Aside from Christopher George and Lynda Day George all the actors are (badly) dubbed (I love how the dean of a MA college has an ENGLISH accent). The story doesn't make a lick of sense, the gore is explicit and pretty sick (this was released unrated in the US) and it's surprisingly dull at times. Even the casting was way off--one of the characters is (purportedly) the school stud but he's played by a short, below average looking guy with no body whatsoever! There's a sequence with him and a woman in bed which is hilarious.
Basically this film was made to show off tons of blood and gore. I have no problem with that at all--but that's all the movie has. Supposedly the dreadful dubbing was purportedly done badly so people would laugh at it....but it's kind of hard to laugh at any movie which is shoving VERY explicit gore in your face. I saw it in a theatre in 1983 and no one laughed once. The stupidest murder has to be when one girl is decapitated by HEDGE TRIMMERS--in broad daylight--on a college campus--and NOBODY SEES ANYTHING! That's about when I gave up on the film--they're treating the audience like they're full of idiots. And the final revelation of who the killer is was predictable and there's a truly pathetic "shock" at the end.
A very sick, nasty, stupid, dull horror film. For gore completists only