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 FORCED ENTRY-
(Video Dungeon)
1972. XXX. 85 minutes. While
working as a gas station attendant, a troubled Vietnam Vet stalks, rapes,
verbally abuses, and finally kills his female victims. Our shell shocked
Romeo starts off by following a female customer home and watches, while
drooling on his huge shiny knife, as she makes love with her
husband/boyfriend. After the man leaves, the Vet breaks into the apartment
and forces the woman at knifepoint to give him
oral sex. As she does, he assaults her with a verbal barrage of racist
comments and threats. After she completes the job, the Vet nonchalantly
kills her. The Vet returns to work and proceeds to do the same thing with
another woman. This time, he analy rapes her and kills her for “Getting
his prick all full of shit.” Later, two hippy chicks hook up, get
stoned, and indulge in a little lesbian action. Of course, the charming,
angry rapist interrupts them. This time however, his verbal assault and
threats are useless as the two hippies only laugh and try to love the now
confused Vet. Not knowing how to handle the women’s reaction towards
him, the Vet completely cracks.
In
Askew Reviews #5, I reviewed a video called Sex Wish and I
found it to be perhaps the most disturbing movie I’ve ever seen. Well,
leave it to Wilson of Video Dungeon to introduce me to this even more
disturbing, rancid beauty of a flic. The constant verbal abuse, along with
the raping and killing was almost too much. Although all of the Vet’s
victims are white, he uses racial slurs to insult them. The threats are no
picnic either. Example, while the first woman is giving the Vet oral sex,
he says “I’m gonna cut your eyes out and push this knife through the
back of your skull!” Yikes. Throughout
the entire movie, the director inserts grainy black and white footage of
Vietnam War atrocities to illustrate the conflict inside the Vet’s
wasted brain. It was pretty ballsy of writer/director Helmut Richler to
use such a touchy subject as The Vietnam War when it was still such a
sensitive subject in the early 70s. Although the killing will never win
any effects awards, they are still very unsettling due to the nature of
the murders. On a lighter note, the dialog between the two hippy chicks is
downright hilarious. Every other word out of their mouths are “Like
wow” and “you know.” Their four-minute conversation seems like 4
hours. The name of the gas station where the Vet works is called
“Joe’s Friendly Service.” However, there are two scenes where you
can plainly see a Mobil sign in the background. Can you imagine the
lawsuits? Pre Deep Throat star, Harry Reemes, billed as Tim Long, stars as
the Vietnam Vet. On a trivial note, Laura Cannon (female lead) was the
first hardcore porn star to ever appear in Playboy. There is an R-rated
version of this movie, under the same title, starring Tanya Roberts.
Excuse me while I go to church and pray for my soul. – Denis Sheehan
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