Intensity	Stupidity:Nudity Ratio 3:2	Budget Low

The initial scrawl for this movie states that the film negative was held by the Justice Department for years because the director killed one of the producers just before the movie was released. What follows is a pretty good rendition of an old drive in movie.

We open on the set of a porn movie involving our heroine dressed as a school girl having sex with a midget. So far, so good, but if they are having sex, shouldn't they have their underwear off? Maybe it is just a dressed rehearsal. Anyway, after talking dirty for a bit, Jennifer (Cheryl Dent) freaks out and attacks her partner. After the intros roll we catch with Jennifer at her exit interview from the loonie bin. The doctor states that he will let Jennifer go, if she promises to go home and take her medication. Jennifer agrees and is soon on the road heading home taking time out for a montage celebrating her freedom. She pulls up in front of her parent's house, but after a few worried minutes does not go in. As she continues down the road she runs afoul of a couple of rednecks who run her off the road and start to attack her. They are soon chased off by Damon Grey's (Vin Crease) gang. Out of sight of Jennifer the girls gleefully kill the two rednecks. Jennifer joins the band as they travel down the road eventually ending up at the titular abandoned bordello. After a few blackout episodes, we start to wonder if Jennifer might be killing off the rest of the cast. When Damon finally realizes that Jennifer is a killer, he offers to be her disciple but she kills him anyway. Jennifer closes the film by picking up a hitchhiker.

Sometimes I think the phrase "To thine own self be true" is not a good idea. Particularly when you are a physco bitch who apparently has a split personality. We never actually see Jennifer kill anyone except the "man in the tall hat" and that seems more like a hallucination. No one else sees the guy, so we aren't sure if he ever existed. As the rest of the cast starts dying we see Jennifer stumbling across the corpses, but the question of who is actually doing the killing is left open. Overall the pacing of the movie is good, though I did not like the "man with the tall hat" scene at all. After watching the movie a couple little things start to make sense. Jennifer does not go home not because she doesn't want to, but because she does not want to inflict herself on her parents.

As writer and director Crease does a pretty good job of not letting the movie get away from him. The peyote scene could have easily gotten out of hand, but he resists re-creating the old 70's attempts to portray an acid trip, settling instead for a couple simple monochrome shots. Assuming that at least one of Jennifer's personalities is a nymphomaniac (she states she has had sex with a lot of men since an early age), you would expect to have a couple of sex scenes or at least a fair amount of nudity. Adding in the three girls in the group would raise this expectation even higher, but alas other than a brief shot of Cheryl's chest there is no nudity or sex in the movie. While clearly a conscious choice on the part of the filmmaker, ironically it dates the film as being from this decade and definitely not from the era it purports to be.

Vin Crease does a great job as the charismatic leader of the gang. He sort of has a dual role as the "documentary" in the special features details the efforts made to produce and shoot the film. People related to the filmmaking discuss Vin and how the idea of making a movie came about and the changes in Vin during the process of actually shooting it. This short picks up where the opening scrawl left off and the various interviewees describe Vin as a man who made big promises and got people to do what he wanted. At the end of the documentary they discuss him running over the guy that comes to tell him that a 9 second scene is being cut from the movie. At that point apparently the film was confiscated by the authorities and held for 25 years before finally getting its theatrical release. This is pretty funny and worth watching.

The three girls in the gang, Violence Onelove (Michele Morrow), Sabbath Jones (Heather Justin Thomas) and Guilty Karma (Ryan Ragnoff) play their characters well. Sabbath Jones is a lost flower child trying to hold on to a dream and Violence and Guilty are childlike as they view everything as a game without consequence. Crease moves the characters from place to place which keeps the movie from getting stage bound. Pretty much all the violence happens off camera and some of it is almost played for laughs such as the killing of the rednecks. The net effect of all this is that the film seems pretty light and not too scary right up until the final scenes where the action builds nicely to the climatic scene between Damon and Jennifer.

So worth seeing? I think so especially if you remember drive in movies. You'll recognize many of the characters and certainly the plot. In the special features there is a out take reel with nothing too interesting in it, but does include a deleted scene of the characters sitting around the campfire singing. I suspect that Crease liked this scene a lot, but wisely kept it out of the movie. It really adds nothing to the movie and as it plays in its raw form does not bring anything to the relationship of the gang. Good editing choice.

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