Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Wizard-8 When I was growing up, I saw this movie (under the title "The Dark Ride") in several video stores in my town. I was curious about it, but I never got around to renting it. Recently, I found a copy in a thrift store, and felt it was now or never. To tell the truth, I thought it would be awful, but to my surprise I found several aspects of the movie worthy of merit. It's decently acted for the most part by the no-name cast, for one thing. And there are a number of scenes involving the killer that have some genuine creepiness, such as using the simple but effective technique of little to no background music. The movie also correctly illustrates that investigations of serial killers take a lot of long and hard work. Unfortunately, that leads to the big problem of the movie. Even though the movie runs less than 90 minutes, the story is still too drawn out, and gets dull at times. Also, if you are looking for plenty of exploitation material like gore and sexual stuff, there isn't much of that here. In fact, it wouldn't take that much editing to make this movie safe to broadcast on commercial TV. So while I am firm in my opinion to not seek out this movie, I will say that if you find yourself watching it you won't find it completely bad.

valiumthousand I'm surprised to see so many positive reviews here. Not that this is a bad film by any means, but I think that people are trying too hard to find significance and meaning in this somewhat dull crime flick. As has been mentioned in other reviews, much of this movie was allegedly inspired by the crimes of Ted Bundy. Yes, John Karlen's character (the killer) does torture and murder attractive young women, but the resemblance pretty much ends there. Bundy was a good looking charmer, while this guy is a creepy freak, plus, I don't recall any detective having his mistress murdered during an abortive attempt to snare Bundy. Add this to about another 100 inconsistencies, and you can see that there isn't a lot of commonality. The Hillside Stranglers or even the Zodiac had more in common with Karlen's character than Bundy.Anyway, to me, this film is most effective when looked at as being a prototype for the buddy films of the 80s like Lethal Weapon, 48 Hours, et al. James Luisi is the tough cop, and for me, his unending tough guy posturing and attempts to be "the man" around women half his age came off as forced and eventually tiresome. I was more entertained by his sidekick Martin Speer, who was barely discernible amidst his forest of facial hair and feathered do. TV staple Susan Sullivan is adequate as Luisi's mistress, and the rest of the cast is generally competent.Worth a look, and entertaining if one isn't expecting too much. I must say, the basketball scene between the 2 detectives is hilarious. Neither of them look like they had ever handled a ball before and the stilted. awkward gamesmanship is a hoot.

Scarecrow-88 San Francisco serial killer(John Karlen, in a chilling performance), in a yellow van, who assumes various disguises, stalks pretty young women, mostly hitch hikers, and it's up to Sargeant Vince De Carlo(James Luisi) to catch him. Not only is this fiend a sexual sadist, but he snaps bones, wears fake wigs and mustaches, and we get a glimpse at how bug-eyed crazy he can be during the act. Bodies piling up, including a college girl who was about to graduate that De Carlo knew personally(in correspondence with other films before, during, and after this particular movie, we see this girl almost get away running into the woods near the road off the freeway), the detective desperately needs extra manpower. With little help besides the minuscule number of cops already helping him, De Carlo, with some assistance from Detective Mike Mitelman(Martin Speer), will personally/doggedly pursue the psychopath. Susan Sullivan is a doctor who could be a potential victim(she is also having an affair with the married De Carlo)as she agrees to work as a girl to seductively draw him into a situation which would implicate him as the one responsible for the rash of killings by his hand.While director Jeremy Hoenack doesn't dwell too much on the actual handiwork of Danny, he does allow us to enter that van on one particular occasion just to see how vicious a deviant he could be, breaking a finger back, ripping the shirt from the victim's body while smiling with a Satanic grin that sends shivers down your spine. Hoenack mentions in an interview that Danny came to fruition as Ted Bundy(who wasn't caught at the time)was killing girls in Seattle. Hoenack shot exclusively in San Francisco, and there are a couple of impressive shots from a helicopter. He includes a disturbing crime scene photograph of one such victim, bones protruding from her legs and arms. And, Hoenack shoots a creepy opening scene featuring Danny chucking a dead naked body over a cliff. It's established that Danny has "mommy issues" which contribute psychologically to his night prowling, kidnapping, and execution of girls who remind him of her. Girls are sluts just like mom and he has to make sure they are unable to do what she did to his father. George Buck Flower(missing teeth)has a cameo as a citizen whose son finds a victim while fishing in a lake nearby. KILLER'S DELIGHT(titled THE SPORT KILLER on the DVD version I watched, released by Code Red)just proves that the 70's had lots of beautiful girls to gawk at, it's just tragic that many of them fall at the hands of this movie's wacko.

BA_Harrison Despite resembling a made for TV movie for much of the time, Killer's Delight still manages to be an enjoyably tawdry and occasionally shocking effort thanks to the inclusion of plenty of hot 70s babes and one or two genuinely nasty moments amongst the routine detective work.The film opens in a delightfully tasteless manner with its psycho killer, Danny (John Karlen) disposing of a naked female body by launching it carelessly down a San Fransisco hillside. The body is soon found, and the damage inflicted is presented in gory detail through a series of black and white police photographs. The film then follows the sicko as he abducts and kills even more young, attractive women—mostly hitch-hikers—casually dumping their mutilated bodies to be found by members of the public (who include prolific B-movie character actor George 'Buck' Flower). Investigating the case is tough cop Vince De Carlo (James Luisi, who reminds me a bit of John Saxon for some reason), who eventually convinces his sexy mistress Carol (Susan Sullivan) to act as bait for the twisted nut-job.Luisi does a pretty good job as the frustrated lawman who is taunted by demented dirt-bag Danny, but the film is at its most entertaining when the script forgets about dull police procedure and concentrates on its more exploitative elements. Setting much of the action at an outdoor swimming pool, for example, allows director Jeremy Hoenack to feature plenty of honeys frolicking in eentsy-weentsy bikinis, but the most lurid moments are definitely between the killer and his victims. Having lured them into his van, the maniac binds and sexually abuses the poor girls, and in one graphic scene, exposes a girl's heaving bosom before ruthlessly breaking her fingers.The film also manages to leave a lasting impression with a downbeat ending in which De Carlo arrives too late to save Carol from the killer.If you're into 70s thrillers, exploitation, or serial killer flicks, Killer's Delight deserves your attention: it might not be the slickest film in the genre, or the most lurid, but it's tacky 70s trappings, and the convincingly demented central performance from Karlen as woman hating screw-up Danny definitely make it worth watching.6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.