Tampa-shot (?) oddity that plays less like an actual scare film than it does a spliced together collection of single-reel shorts and smokers. Legitimate scare films — think Reefer Madness, Mom and Dad, She Shoulda Said No! — generally have some sort of narrative about young lives spiralling out of control through sex, drugs, and the smut racket. This effort by a one-and-done director rejects that, instead feeling like a shotgun blast of every strain of 60s exploitation, veering wildly from burlesque stripteases to stalk-n-slash roughie sleaze, drag racing, cheapo gore hallucinations, and JD girl gang violence — all tenuously linked together through a stern voiceover. It’s all rendered in very un-psychedelic black and white and scored by library cues and free jazz, resulting in what could almost pass for a compulsively watchable 75 minute Something Weird Video mixtape. They don’t make ’em like this anymore, and I’m still not sure if they ever really did in the first place.

–Evan

black & white, mono, fullscreen, DVD-R comes packaged as shown in color DVD case, wrapped in plastic.