My review was written in March 1984 after a Time Square screening.
"Forced Entry" is a downbeat, technically subpar exploitation film about a rapist. Filmed in 1975 under the title "The Last Victim", with a new, re-edited version reportedly prepared in 1980, picture is reviewed here for the record.
"Entry"'s main point of interest is its status as a skeleton in the closet for two currently prominent actresses, Tanya Roberts and Nancy Allen, since it was made before either one got her career into gear. Roberts has a leading role (and despite the genre, avoids any nude scenes) while Allen is in briefly as a hitchhiker.
Ron Max portrays Carl, a gas station worker who is, as cliche would have it , a normal boy-next-door type that no one would suspect is an habitual rapist and murderer. Picture opens in a particularly negative film noir fashion with nighttime visuals of Carl driving around the city, voicing over an "I hate whores" rap loaded with violent verbal imagery. Ensuing raps and murders are presented with hokey slow-motion photography that seems more like padding than style.
"Entry" winds up with a very lengthy sequence of Carl invading the home of a young housewife (Roberts) and abusing her in a well-acted, but hardly entertaining segment. The only suspense is when will Tanya strike back and get rid of this menace, once and for all.
Photography and editing are crude. The film's rating by the Motion Picture Assn. Of America is in question; apparently the 1975 "Last Victim" received a PG, but the new version was never rated, pic's poster and advertising proclaim an unsubstantiated R rating.
"Forced Entry" is a downbeat, technically subpar exploitation film about a rapist. Filmed in 1975 under the title "The Last Victim", with a new, re-edited version reportedly prepared in 1980, picture is reviewed here for the record.
"Entry"'s main point of interest is its status as a skeleton in the closet for two currently prominent actresses, Tanya Roberts and Nancy Allen, since it was made before either one got her career into gear. Roberts has a leading role (and despite the genre, avoids any nude scenes) while Allen is in briefly as a hitchhiker.
Ron Max portrays Carl, a gas station worker who is, as cliche would have it , a normal boy-next-door type that no one would suspect is an habitual rapist and murderer. Picture opens in a particularly negative film noir fashion with nighttime visuals of Carl driving around the city, voicing over an "I hate whores" rap loaded with violent verbal imagery. Ensuing raps and murders are presented with hokey slow-motion photography that seems more like padding than style.
"Entry" winds up with a very lengthy sequence of Carl invading the home of a young housewife (Roberts) and abusing her in a well-acted, but hardly entertaining segment. The only suspense is when will Tanya strike back and get rid of this menace, once and for all.
Photography and editing are crude. The film's rating by the Motion Picture Assn. Of America is in question; apparently the 1975 "Last Victim" received a PG, but the new version was never rated, pic's poster and advertising proclaim an unsubstantiated R rating.