jukkapetaja
In Finland TV Viisi shows soft core movies every Saturday night during summer. I've seen a few of them and they have been quite bad. But this one was so bad I'm sorry I even watched it.The soft core was bad. Only women with plastic boobs were having sex. Not the pretty ones. But when the movie ran out of sex and started to imitate thrillers, that was when it went really south. There was nothing thrilling.There was a killer who could be invisible in an empty elevator until the victim steps in to it. Then the killer suddenly steps "out from the shadows".Then there was a heroine who was in a killers home searching for a video film. And when she found it, instead of leaving she started to watch the film. Only to be caught by the killer!Save your self from the disappointment and avoid this film.
insomniac_rod
I wonder what did Fred Olen Ray say to Telly Savalas in order to convince him to star in this movie.The great, great Telly Savalas who is an actor that truly marked an era stars in this soft core sex thriller.To be honest, I tracked this down because I'm a fan of Mexican soft core sex star Erica Nann. She has some decent scenes; the hight light being in lingerie with another women in a room at night. Well you can guess the outcome.The movie deals with a strange crime and it's modus operandi. Well I can't remember that much but that this movie is truly boring and does not have anything positive to comment about.Please, do a favor and avoid it. I'm glad to see that it has somehow vanished from earth.
tfrizzell
Sadistic psychiatrist Gary Hudson has murdered an exotic dancer and now her two friends try to figure out the real truth in this sexually-charged dud. Telly Savalas is also along for the ride, in one of his last films, as an old detective trying to figure out the complicated case. Pure late night cable fare that has no heart, mind or soul. Only twisted movie lovers will get anything remotely important out of "Mind Twister". Turkey anyone? Turkey (0 stars out of 5).
rduchmann
Fred Olen Ray production is a remake, not quite scene for scene, of his own SINS OF DESIRE, filmed just a couple of years earlier and starring Tanya Roberts. In the new version, buxom Suzanne Slater investigates the mysterious murder of her sister, which the police are unable to solve. Ultimately, sex is a major tool in her detective work. Denouement is the same as in the original.Telly Savalas plays his final role here as the cop on the case; it's no Kojak. Maria Ford, uncharacteristically, is not called upon to strip but I'm always happy to see her in any capacity. On the detection trail Slater meets a quack shrink, with whom her sister had connection, as well as his nympho wife. Dinner with the couple leads to the film's set piece. "Have you ever made love with another woman?" the doctor wonders. "Just at slumber parties, when I was younger," Slater confesses, "but lately I've been thinking about it." (I was thinking about it too, by that point. Great godamighty!) Slater thereon gets her breasts smeared with day-glo paint and she and the doctor's wife slither around on a bed in hooker underwear lapping one another's nipples for quite a while. Wow. Tanya Roberts' similar scene with Delia Shephard in the original was not nearly as salacious. (Original included a bit more full frontal but not so much lewd simulation.)If you saw the original, it's basically the bare bodies that are different in the remake, mostly those of Slater and Erika Nann, as Mrs Shrink. (These are breasts better than the kind God makes.) There is a brief appearance by a Rottweiler, for admirers of this noble schwäbisch breed (Hi, Jack!). Tech credits are OK, performances tolerable for the genre, and there are no surprises pleasant or unpleasant.Fred Olen Ray's directorial career has run a wide gamut, from crude horror (SCALPS) to better horror (THE TOMB), shoot-em-ups both silly and not so bad (BULLETPROOF, CYCLONE), post-apocalyptic action (WARLORDS), erotic thrillers (INNER SANCTUM, SINS OF DESIRE), wacky horror comedy (HOLLYWOOD CHAINSAW HOOKERS, BEVERLY HILLS VAMP), R-rated silicone shows (ATTACK OF THE 50-FOOT CENTERFOLD), G-rated kid stuff (LITTLE MISS MAGIC), and even a fairly decent B-western (THE SHOOTER). This isn't counting some aliases I did not realize were his until I read his IMDB listing and learned I had seen even more Ray films than I thought I had.Ray's overall achievement is fairly high, considering the budgets with which he usually works. Some of his films are bottom-of-the-barrel stuff that even a marginal video distrib might have second thoughts about releasing, and some are downright wonders of Poverty Row. His output has been quite eclectic, though I'm not aware of any ventures into hardcore porn, and he is probably the closest living equivalent to a B-pic legend such as Edward L Cahn, who tackled almost every genre of the 30s, 40s, and 50s and who occasionally hit an honest double, if never quite a four-bagger. Thumbs up, Fred! What do you have coming out this week?
