Sunday, June 13, 2010

Butterfly (1982)

Directed by Matt Cimber
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Industrial Entertainment)

Pia Zadora is the whole show, playing a teenager who shows up at her "father's" abandoned mine in the middle of the Arizona desert. She immediately begins to seduce him, a ploy to get him back in the mine for the silver. He admirably resists her sexual overtures. Her boyfriend and his relatives show up, and it turns in to a sordid mess of cheating spouses and illegitimate children. There is a trial for incest with an elderly Orson Welles as the judge. It is basically an adult soap opera, but with some good desert location photography. The Industrial Entertainment DVD suffers from distracting picture stutter ("ghosting") whenever the camera pans or there is motion left or right, indicating a poor PAL-sourced transfer.

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