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Someone is killing of people on Coney Island, exclusively it seems
annoying women with relationship problems. Assistant DA Dan (Martin
Barlorski) investigates, much to the dismay of his fiancée Laura (Judith
Resnick), whom he nevertheless drags around to Coney Island every night.
The only one who Laura can share her frustrations with though is Tom
(Earle Edgerton), a carnival worker ... but does that make her just as
annoying as everybody else ?
Soon enough, the audience is presented with a few suspects, including a
fortune teller (Kaly Mills), Tom's hunchback assistant (Burt Young) and
even DA Dan himself ... but actually the real killer is given away pretty
early in the film: It's Tom, who had a hard childhood and who eventually
killed his mother. Dan finds out that Tom's the killer when he finds a
teddybear filled with entrails in his appartment, but by that time it
might already be too late because Tom has taken Laura on a ride on a
Ferris wheel, and he doesn't intend to let her live. Anyways, somehow
Laura manages to get through to him by pretending to be his mother and
telling him that she loves him - so he leaves the Ferris wheel sobbing.
However, the whole thing of course ends in a ltitle chase that is cut
short when Tom is run over by a car and Coney Island is a safe place once
more ...
Very cheaply made serialkiller-murder mystery with some gore effects
done on a sub-Herschell Gordon Lewis-level (and totally lacking Herschell
Gordon Lewis' panache) and featuring some of the most amateurish
camerawork there is, including an amazing number of out-of-focus shots,
unnecessary mastershots and lazily done camera set-ups. Add to this some
actors that border the annoying (in all fairness though, some of them are
supposed to be annoying) and a third rate script and you've got a pretty
bad movie. The only thing of remote interest might be some images of
1970's Coney Island, but thanks to botched up shots and uninteresting
cameraangles even this doesn't work out as well as it should and is
decidedly less than impressive.
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