For four decades exploitation "queen" Doris Wishman cranked out such celluloid atrocities like Nude On The Moon and (her most famous one) Deadly Weapons. In fact, you could call her the female Ed Wood, Jr. - but the difference between the two is that at least Wood's movies were watchably bad; Wishman's are almost unwatchable.
After half the footage Wishman shot for this went missing at the processing lab, Doris took it upon herself to splice together the remaining film into the disjointed, often sensless, mess you see before you - and she even decided to overdub almost all the female actresses herself as well.
This stars porn queen Samantha Fox (no, not the singer from the 80s) in her first "legit" role as a mentally unstable woman who comes home only for her siblings to try and drive her off her rocker so she'll be sent back while someone is going around chopping up all her immediate family and various other relatives.
Loaded with shoddy gore (the axe swings are so slow and don't even look like they hit the people and there's a giddy moment where a head get stuck(!) on the axe), a musical soundtrack consisting of what I assume is library music just doesn't fit (the first axe murder is deemed totally uneffective due to the narration and upbeat music that plays at the time), the editing is atrociously jumpy and Wishman's attempts to make you aware Fox's character is losing it (using all these "hypnotic" swirls and tossing the camera side to side) just make this even worse.
In fact, the movie was so incomplete that Wishman even added narration that runs over-top of almost the ENTIRE movie - just so there'd be some sort of attempt at a plot. You have to see it to dis-believe it. The title is the best thing about this. (Chris Hartley, 6/8/04)
Directed By: Doris Wishman.
Written By: Judith J. Kushner.
Starring: Samantha Fox, Diane Cummins, Saul Meth, Miriam Meth.
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