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The Worst Film Ever

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Just because a movie is bargain basement explotation does not mean it's any good. The soft core sex scenes bores, the "roughie" scenes are dull and repelant. The wrap around story is barely there. I like he half hearted attempt to give this some weight by showing the mean defiler's parents. A film with little to reccomend it.

Amazing Friedman production, generally considered to be the first 'roughie', so it's black and white soft-core sex. Plus because there were restrictions as to how much sex action could be seen, we get violence instead. Great irony as others have noted that you couldn't show too much loving but you could show hitting. This is a bit slow in places and the cars, the girls and the guys all look more 50s than 60s but the flesh, the fashions and talk of 'kicks' brings us more into the period. The extent of slapping and spanking is astonishing and the sleaziness of the kidnapped girl's basement surprising. Friedman reckons this would get an 'R' rating today - he's living on another planet if he thinks it would even get made. Excellent key trash movie.

I recently received this from Netflix. I do admit that I enjoy a lot of what the 60's and 70's drive-in theaters had to offer. This film takes a long time to get started if you click to play the drive-in experience on the main menu. After several long nearly 5 to 6 minute previews you finally get to the Defilers. It was honestly an average movie at best. There is hardly any dialogue until they finally get to the beach with all the girls in the beginning. The cast is very unknown, but the do what they do best, and that is entertain on the B or possibly C list stage. So honestly this is a prime example of the experience you would have at a 60's drive-in theater.

While producer David F Friedman helped Herschell Gordon Lewis give birth to the first true gore films, he also went to Hollywood and assisted director Lee Frost in delivering a "roughie" nude picture(..although next to something like FORCED ENTRY, THE DEFILERS is a walk in the park)..roughie being an exploitation film featuring both sex and violence in a union, kind of evolving from the popular "nudie cuties" of the time. This whole history lesson I actually learned from Friedman himself during his audio commentary for SOMETHING WEIRD's release of THE DEFILERS.The defilers of the title are a couple of aimless "blood brothers", Carl Walker Jr(Byron Mabe) & Jameison Marsh(Jerome Eden), privileged young men who would smoke dope, gulp some beer, and score with chicks. The defiled is an outsider from Minnesota, Jane Collins(Mai Jansson) hoping to fulfill her dreams, like so many young women, in Hollywood as a star or model. For their amusement and joy, Carl(..quite well known for playing rough with dames)influences Jameison into kidnapping Jane, imprisoning her in a vile, miserable basement located in his pops' warehouse. She's subjected to rape and attacks, slowly withering away as Carl continues tormenting her, a sadistic sex fiend who overpowers her, feeding Jane scraps brought from home. Soon Jameison(..after molesting her numb body, Jane staring at the ceiling due to a weakened state, unable to resist anymore)has had enough, urging Carl to end their mistreatment, allowing her to go free. But, Carl, the sadist that he is, has other plans for her, culminating in a brawl between long-time friends.I can't say I was head-over-heels for THE DEFILERS because it's essentially a series of make-out sessions with tops removed showing bare breasts. It was okay at first, because the curvy gals were attractive, but the whole ordeal becomes rather repetitive and tedious. And, before the film really ever gets underway, the opening shows a group of young people, girlfriends accompanying Carl and Jameison to Malibu Beach, which seems little more than filler, as does Jane's arrival to Hollywood where the filmmakers basically show a travelogue of the city's memorable sights. The film is only 67 minutes, and about half is devoted to filler with only a small portion focused on Jane's traumatic experience of sexual slavery at the hands of Carl and Jameison. I'm sure the important ingredients for the audience this film aims to please are orchestrated well enough. You have plenty of slow disrobing scenes, two violent spankings by Carl to the bare asses of victims, Jane's strip & bubble bath, and the violent fracas that explodes with a tragic conclusion. Some shapely ladies in the cast makes this junk tolerable. Shot in evocative B&W which does, I have to admit, give THE DEFILERS an allure. The pacing in this film is my main criticism, and Lee Frost could've certainly "cut the fat" to make THE DEFILERS more easy to digest.