Directed by Alex Nicol
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Scorpion Releasing)
Peter Carpenter does a very good Tom Jones impersonation as the featured singer at a local Lobster House restaurant. His red fringe outfit and Vegas style act, complete with lights and an aluminum foil background, are something to behold. It is a sordid story told many times...people using other people to get what they want. Peter wants to be a pop star so sells his body to Dyanne Thorne, who happily obliges since she not only owns a record company but has a paralytic husband. Peter gives up his current girlfriend for Dyanne, but eventually falls in love with her daughter in a soap opera plot twist. You know someone has to die and there are plenty of motivations among the characters. It is a well-photographed melodrama with a Pacific coast vibe, numerous sunsets and midnight swims, but other than one bloody knife murder not really a horror movie. The Scorpion release is spectacular in all respects.
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