FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

efffigie I am writing this review as I finally managed to find this movie and watch it; and really, because I admit that, even though I knew at the time (late 1970s) that Mills was much older in real life than in the Disney movies I saw her in, I had the biggest boy crush on her. Embarrassing I know, but I doubt I was alone.This movie is quite good; it manages to make the green, lustrous English countryside seem genuinely menacing and eerie. It's one of those 'road movies' where a stranger is picked up, that may or may not be who or what they say they are. It reminds me a bit of movies like THE HITCHER and such like.And yes, a VERY adult Hayley Mills turns out to be not at all what one may think, and also gets naked in this movie, and I am deeply glad I didn't see it back when I was a young teen: I think it would have ruined my life!

kapelusznik18 ****SPOILERS**** Things went downhill fast for Belle Adams, Hayley Mills, right from the start in the crazy & bizarre film. Getting a ride to the Greenwood train station at a local truck stop. Belle is attacked by the horny trucker who just couldn't keep his eyes off her shapely legs instead of keeping his eye on the road. Being picked up by the drunk, he was celebrating his birthday, Stephen Slade, Simon Ward, a few minutes later Belle soon realizes that he's no better then the horny trucker who attempted to rape her! That in just how weird as well as disconnected from reality he is. Not getting in time to Greenwood to catch her train Belle soon forgets where she's going and stays with Stephen who seems to have developed a crush on her.Endlessly driving around the English countryside and seeming to be going nowhere Belle soon leaves Stephen to buy some groceries at a local Food-Mart. It's then that she's confronted by this what looks like grizzly looking six foot five inch Lepechaun Malcolm Roberts played by, who was touted back in the 1940's as being the most handsome man in Hollywood, the unkempt and disheveled Sterling Hayden. It's Roberts who soon finds out, by looking at the days newspaper headline, that a inmate escaped from the Greenwood Mental Hospital who from the photo fits the description of Stephen Slade. In tying to warn Belle about him Roberts comes up short in not being able to keep up with them in his hopped-up looking 1930's jalopy.****MAJOR MAJOR SPOILERS**** In trying to figure out what's exactly going on in the movie we do get a major clue in a number of flashbacks involving Belle and her overly creepy and hot in the pants duck-billed looking Uncle Peter Jeffrey. It was Uncle Peter who molested Belle when she was a little girl that in fact ended up screwing up her head. And it was Belle's reaction to Uncle Peter's grouping and rape of her that in fact had her institutionalized! The trouble is that the clueless Stephen is totally unaware of that and in the end he's soon to become her next victim!

HumanoidOfFlesh "Deadly Strangers" opens with opens with a mysterious killer escaping from an asylum-type scene after murdering nurse.Haley Mills misses her train.She accepts a ride from a truck driver,who tries to rape her.She escapes and is then picked up by a mysterious who was watching her in the bar.He behaves suspiciously and may be an escaped lunatic...Very suspenseful and fast-paced thriller with a surprising twist ending often spoiled in various reviews.The film is currently only available on a rare VHS tape.It features Hayley Mills in several nude scenes and is told in flashbacks.The finale is gripping and suspenseful.I haven't seen Sidney Hayers "Assault" and "Revenge",but after enjoying "Deadly Strangers" I'd really like to.8 out of 10.

Ian Pennick Deadly Strangers is quite a basic storyline with twist, the dialogue is a little flat, Chat up lines involving ostrich eggs for example.. The story rumbles along with a watchable quality and being a road movie the pace does pick up in the chase scenes. Though towards the end the chase in the woods tends to drop the action. One thing that is well worth noticing is the use of small mount cameras, quite innovative then. In many respects this film is more a car spotters dream.. If your into 70's British cars you will be pausing the DVD more times than you can imagine!Overall Hayley ,Simon and Sterling carry this script off,but the most surprising performance comes from the Maxi!!