Howard Thorne (Nick Moriarty) stalks and assaults women on a regular basis. Or maybe he’s just dreaming of it. He wants nothing to do with his junkie wife Vicki (Adele Rein, The Girl With the Hungry Eyes). When they go to a costume party together, she learns who he really is while he learns what it’s like to be a victim. Then, they both go to Hell.
Like many films of this time and genre, there were many prints of this, some with more filthy scenes that could have just been spliced in. The Something Weird VHS of this supposedly had more of the later nightmare footage.
Made for John Lamb (Sexual Freedom In Denmark, The Raw Ones, Sexual Liberty Now, possibly the director of Zodiac Killer) by Jack Hill, this is a drugged and fuzzed-out roughie that’s more art than nearly any other movie in the genre and one that actually is sexy. Credit for that goes to not just Hill, but Rein, who has a volcanic scene with herself in a mirror. There’s also Cathy Crowfoot (who would go on to shoot and produce The Boy With the Hungry Eyes) as The Crow, a martial arts-using vengeance-seeking former victim out to destroy Howard. Also: A Dracula-voiced host, played by Ron Gans, the voice of New World Pictures trailers and the Halloween radio commercial.
You can also see Carol Baughman (My Tale Is Hot), Rene De Beau (Orgy of the Dead), Gaby Martone(Mermaids of Tiburon) and Luana Anders (who convinced Jack Nicholson to join her improv class) show up.
This VCI Blu-ray release has two commentary tracks: one by noted film historian, podcaster and artist Rob Kelly and the other by Jack Hill. There’s also a photo and poster gallery. You can get it from MVD.