Featuring
the sort of lurid plot that later powered episode after episode of Charlie’s Angels, this sleazy drive-in
picture tracks a serial killer who stalks visitors at a Caribbean resort where
guests overcome sexual hangups by sleeping with each other. Naturally, all the
female guests are twentysomething babes and most of the male guests are
middle-aged. In one scene, the psychobabble-spewing proprietor of the resort
encourages his guests to free themselves by “milling,” which involves turning
off the lights so everyone can grope freely. This experiment goes awry when
someone either bites or cuts a buxom young woman’s breast. Yeah, it’s that kind
of movie. Codirected by the exploitation-flick brain trust of married couple
Beverly and Ferd Sebastian, The Single
Girls works about 40 percent of the time, delivering cheap thrills and
nudie shots by way of coherent storytelling. The rest of the time, the movie
ambles from one disassociated vignette to the next. Therefore, one’s tolerance
for this sort of thing depends entirely on how much joy one is able to derive
from watching ladies scream, screw, shower, and strip. Although the movie has a
few proper dramatic scenes, mostly involving the trouble that sexy redhead
Allison (Claudia Jennings) has with a possessive ex-boyfriend, those bits come
across like filler, no matter how hard the appealing Jennings tries to give a
real performance. Incidentally, Jennings also starred in the Sebastians’ next
opus, ’Gator Bait, which was released
later in 1974.
The Single Girls: LAME
1 comment:
Another trailer I know well, trumpeting the "titty bandit on the loose". Classy.
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