Sunday, July 20, 2014

Deadly Strangers (1975)


Fox-Rank (UK)
Directed by Sidney Hayers
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
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Hayley Mills hitches a ride with a stranger at a truck stop, but soon finds herself fighting off his advances and thrown out of the truck at the side of the road. She unwisely accepts a ride from the next guy that shows up, drunkard Simon Ward. The two travel around the English countryside, tangle with a couple of bikers, get separated only to end up at a hotel spending the night together. Ward has flashbacks to his unsatisfying sex life while Hayley has flashbacks to her sexually abusive childhood. Meanwhile, someone has escaped from the local mental hospital and is leaving a trail of bodies. The identity of the killer is revealed in the mildly surprising twist ending. Hayley further distances herself from her Disney past in this lurid thriller in which she fights off multiple rapists and goes topless.

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