Directed by: Nick Millard (as Joe Davis)
Stars: Allen Sterling, Martin Donley, Nicki Holt, Janice Kelly, Brigitta Reim
Language: English
Country: Usa | Imdb Info
Description: Severely traumatized and disillusioned soldier Alan Jaffeo (lanky and bespectacled geeky beanpole Martin Donley) returns to his San Francisco hometown after a two year tour of duty in Vietnam.
Filled with rage and appalled at the general decadence all around him (his dad is a pathetic drunk while his stepmother is a lesbian), Alan violently lashes out at prostitutes, family members, and anyone else unlucky enough to cross his angry and deadly path.
Writer/director Nick Phillips uses a very rambling and disjointed, but still effective and compelling elliptical narrative style to relate this simple and sordid story. Moreover, Phillips punctuates the plot with jarring outbursts of sudden brutal violence, uses a few neat cinematic flourishes (the ‘Nam flashbacks are shown in double negative), further spices things up with oodles of yummy bare female skin and sizzling softcore sex (a tender slender blonde hooker bumping and grinding up a storm for Alan to no avail rates as the definite erotic highlight), and caps everything off with an uncompromising downbeat ending.
Bob Riki’s rough and shaky hand-held black and white cinematography vividly captures the pervasive seaminess of the San Francisco red light district. Al Deline’s offbeat free-form jazzy score adds to the basic quirky experimental feel of the whole picture. In addition, this movie is an interesting early attempt at showing a shell-shocked Vietnam veteran’s inability to readjust to peaceful civilian life. Worth a look for fans of the terminally strange and obscure.
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