Saturday, November 8, 2014

The Kill (1968, Gary Graver)

"The Kill" - or as it was aptly renamed, "Reservoir Cats" - is a strange, comedic 'roughie'. I'm not even sure if what currently exists of this is it's complete form.

A nympho-hippie chick is kidnapped by a gang of dope smugglers and violently gang-raped. She ends up going to a private eye for help tracking down her attackers...

At some point in time, this movie was clearly re-cut and dubbed over with silly dialog and sound effects. It's such an awkwardly paced movie with a lot of out-of-place humor thrown in after a relatively harsh rape scene, which makes for a very inconsistent 'tone'. I'm not sure if this movie is just comprised from some scrapped material from a film that was never completed, due to a very bare-bones storyline and especially the ending that is one of the most abrupt and anticlimactic things I've ever seen. Based on it's faults, alone, is enough of a reason to seek this one out. Oh, and there's an incredibly tedious (so much so that it actually gets hilarious) scene of a blind hunchback cleaning up an office in real time. I have no idea why...

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