Review of Victims!

The only remotely intriguing thing about this terrible dud is that, on my bootleg DVD-copy at least, the film starts off with the bloody murders of no less than three young girls, but they are seemingly irrelevant to the rest of the plot and remain unexplained. One girl has an ax planted in her head, another one is sliced up naked in her bed, and the third one gets stabbed in the back by a guy dressed up as an old lady. The killer gets apprehended, but none of these events are ever brought up again throughout the entire film; - very weird. Not that it gets any better, though. Quite the contrary, "Victims!" looks like a typical 80s slasher, but in fact it's more of an overdue and insignificant rape & revenge thriller (like they made many in the 70s). Four free-spirited and deliberately provocative teen girls head out for a weekend in the desert mountains, supposedly for a school project but naturally they are more occupied with parading half-naked in front of gas station attendants and skinny dipping. The four girls encounter two thugs who are hiding because they committed a bank robbery, so I reckon you know what happens next? "Victims!" is extremely unoriginal and boring, boring, boring. The film only lasts 75 minutes, including the random footage at the beginning, but still it outstays its welcome. The abuse of the girls isn't shocking or harrowing, like it was the case in the classics of the seventies ("Last House on the Left", "I Spit on your Grave", "House on the Edge of the Park", ...) and the revenge part is even more tame and pitiable.