I think I first learned of this film from having seen stills of a bloody and insane Brinke Stevens, so I pretty much knew what to expect and I was not disappointed. The film was directed by Fred Olen Ray, who apparently has directed many cheesy horror films. The cast is mostly not great, with the exceptions of Brinke Stevens and Delia Sheppard. .
It is the tale (inspired by Poe!) of a woman who is afraid of being buried alive. Brinke plays the woman. Her husband (played by non-actor John Henry Richardson) owes money to a loan shark and is eager to get what money he can out of his wife. Meanwhile he is cheating on his wife with the super sexy Delia Sheppard. Sheppard has some great nude scenes in this movie. All of this is observed by Jan Michael Vincent from his car. He works for the loan shark.
Well Brinke Stevens is nothing much in this film until she goes crazy. In order to cause her to have a heart attack Terry (her husband) and his bleached blonde girlfriend (Sheppard) fool Victoria into thinking she's been buried alive. In actuality they have just put her in a wooden crate in the basement and put some dirt on top of it.
While Terry schtups Lisa (in a wonderfully explicit love scene), Vicky awakens in the box, screams, and promptly goes mad. It's a great moment for Brinke Stevens. She giggles her ass off and and smashes her way out of the coffin. She emerges wild-eyed, bloody, and completely insane. And everything she does for the rest of the movie is enormous fun.
She kills Terry and Lisa, she stabs Jan Michael Vincent several times, and he shoots her several times. Vincent appears to survive, and getting shot doesn't seem to phase Vicky in the least. It seems that she has gained the supernatural powers of Jason or Freddy. In the end she disappears. All she leaves is her bloody knife.
So, to sum up, a very cheesy film and a pretty slipshod production. And a lot less gory than it could have been. For instance why does Stevens kill Sheppard off camera? I would have liked to have seen that, as well as her dead body. We saw plenty of it when she was alive, so why deny us it when she's dead? I guess the production ran out of money.
But the nude scenes of Delia Sheppard and Brinke's semi-comical and over the top performance as the bloody, knife-wielding maniac more than make up for the film's shortcomings. If Fred Olen Ray's other movies are like this, I imagine they're a lot of fun as well. Surely Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers is worth seeing.
It is the tale (inspired by Poe!) of a woman who is afraid of being buried alive. Brinke plays the woman. Her husband (played by non-actor John Henry Richardson) owes money to a loan shark and is eager to get what money he can out of his wife. Meanwhile he is cheating on his wife with the super sexy Delia Sheppard. Sheppard has some great nude scenes in this movie. All of this is observed by Jan Michael Vincent from his car. He works for the loan shark.
Well Brinke Stevens is nothing much in this film until she goes crazy. In order to cause her to have a heart attack Terry (her husband) and his bleached blonde girlfriend (Sheppard) fool Victoria into thinking she's been buried alive. In actuality they have just put her in a wooden crate in the basement and put some dirt on top of it.
While Terry schtups Lisa (in a wonderfully explicit love scene), Vicky awakens in the box, screams, and promptly goes mad. It's a great moment for Brinke Stevens. She giggles her ass off and and smashes her way out of the coffin. She emerges wild-eyed, bloody, and completely insane. And everything she does for the rest of the movie is enormous fun.
She kills Terry and Lisa, she stabs Jan Michael Vincent several times, and he shoots her several times. Vincent appears to survive, and getting shot doesn't seem to phase Vicky in the least. It seems that she has gained the supernatural powers of Jason or Freddy. In the end she disappears. All she leaves is her bloody knife.
So, to sum up, a very cheesy film and a pretty slipshod production. And a lot less gory than it could have been. For instance why does Stevens kill Sheppard off camera? I would have liked to have seen that, as well as her dead body. We saw plenty of it when she was alive, so why deny us it when she's dead? I guess the production ran out of money.
But the nude scenes of Delia Sheppard and Brinke's semi-comical and over the top performance as the bloody, knife-wielding maniac more than make up for the film's shortcomings. If Fred Olen Ray's other movies are like this, I imagine they're a lot of fun as well. Surely Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers is worth seeing.