Low budget horror here. Would this be considered grindhouse? I guess I need to look into that more. Exploitative, yeah, I guess? But I bitch about Human Centipede, and yet here I sit watching 3 on a Meathook. This one is def more in the Texas Chain Saw realm versus a Hershcell Gordon Lewis Wizard of Gore outing. But ultimately, I did find the film a bit lacking, even with the 70s nudity and thoughts of potential thunderbush to come. But, well, let’s just say it is a low budget horror movie. With a hippy funk interlude.
We start with four girls just having a good time, out for the weekend, taking the boat out, skinny dippin, playing Boats and Balloons or whatever the fuck it going on there. But their journeys are dampened when their hippy car breaks down around midnight in the middle of Nowheresville. Luckily for them, a cool young kinda awkward farmer guy gives them a ride back to the farmhouse, can sort it out in the morning. So instead of going full pron at this point in the story, it goes full horror. Oh, Billy! or...is it?!?!? So much suspense! And a love story thrown in there too, it’s got it all!
Is this another Ed Gein inspired story? Loosely, yes. Dating back to 1957, that kinda of found its way into the genpop by way of Robert Bloch’s novel Psycho, immediately popularized by the Alfred Hitchcock film adaptation shortly after in 1960. Texas Chain Saw Massacre is another notable one, but that was actually two years after this. Despite the good source material, there’s a lot of bad lighting, questionable shots, suspect microphone placements for dialogue, and a little too much hippy funk music filler to make this a Stellar Film. The final scenes of the movie are...psychologically more screwed up than anything previous with the ScoobyDoo kindsa ending and totally suspect reasonings and deductions. Seriously? That’s...that’s kinda retarded. So this is a comedy, cuz that’s a pretty big joke. I am confuse.
