Bonnie's Kids (1973)
'70s sleaze, '70s sleaze, we love '70s sleaze! This shares a couple points of contact with one of my favorite drive-in films from the era, The Candy Snatchers -- starlet Tiffany Bolling headlines both, and Arthur Marks, a "presenter" on Candy, writes and directs here -- so it's surely not unintentional that this film also shares with Candy a deranged view of entertainment and a logical sharpness that shows story attention was valued just as highly as trash value. This has parts that don't work (Bolling, for instance, doens't seem up to the demands of her role), but when your film OPENS with voyeurism, phone sex, attempted incestuous rape and murder by shotgun, who's really concerned about dead air? This is an awesomely grimy throwback to Hollywood's wild days. You'll need a bath after it's done, and you'll love every damn minute of it.
Grade: B
'70s sleaze, '70s sleaze, we love '70s sleaze! This shares a couple points of contact with one of my favorite drive-in films from the era, The Candy Snatchers -- starlet Tiffany Bolling headlines both, and Arthur Marks, a "presenter" on Candy, writes and directs here -- so it's surely not unintentional that this film also shares with Candy a deranged view of entertainment and a logical sharpness that shows story attention was valued just as highly as trash value. This has parts that don't work (Bolling, for instance, doens't seem up to the demands of her role), but when your film OPENS with voyeurism, phone sex, attempted incestuous rape and murder by shotgun, who's really concerned about dead air? This is an awesomely grimy throwback to Hollywood's wild days. You'll need a bath after it's done, and you'll love every damn minute of it.
Grade: B
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