Curapedi
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
Bergorks
If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.
Arianna Moses
Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
mark.waltz
The presence of Ray Danton always left me cold, sort of creeped out. He had an element of sleaze in his good looks, like someone so certain of their sex appeal to women that you know that there was perversion underneath the surface. This is a nasty drama of a serial rapist so repulsive that you long to see him castrated. Danton here plays a character nicknamed The Aspirin Rapist because he always distracts the victim as he drops in on by politely claiming a headache and asking for a pain killer. When one of the victims turns out to be the wife of the detective in investigating the case, it comes as no surprise when she ends up being pregnant. Talks about abortion might seem to be a first but a conversation with priest William Schallert made me angry in how juvenile the arguments for and against it seemed to be.Vampira adds some obviously intentional laughs as a beatnik poet, and Louis Armstrong and Cathy Crosby sing a few songs. Unfortunately, Crosby's rendition of the Lena Horne/Judy Garland hit, "Love", is truncated with the interruption of the lame dialog. Other than these curious incidents, this is an extremely crass movie probably made independently but released by MGM. If he hadn't died a reclusive, broken man two years before, seeing his former studio release crap like this would have killed Louis B. Mayer for sure. In addition to Danton, there's Steve Cochran as the police investigator whose wife (a very good Fay Spain) is one of Danton's victims, the dull Mamie Van Doren as a rape victim who secretly seemed to like it and Margaret Hayes as the very mature first victim. Hayes is a fascinating actress whose "B" film appearances seemed to all be aging 40's glamour girls who couldn't let go of their past. In the final scene, MGM seems to have utilized Esther Williams' old swimming pool but dramatically is a let-down. Since this seems like something that naturally played at drive-ins, I hope that some audience members had the sense to drive out.
marlene_rantz
I watched this movie with some hesitation, because it really received awful reviews; however, because I like Ray Danton and Steve Cochran, I decided to give it a chance. Ray Danton and Steve Cochran both gave very good performances, as did Mamie Van Doren, Fay Spain, Jackie Coogan, and Jim Mitchum, and the plot, though trashy, was interesting, and as pointed out by Martin Teller, this movie was weirdly compelling, mainly due, I think, to Ray Danton's very menacing and interesting performance as a killer, and Steve Cochran's performance as a complex cop. I am, therefore, recommending this movie, but only if you like any of the actors in it, since they all gave good performances, and, I think, one can bear with the worst movie if one is a fan of an actor!
RanchoTuVu
Stereotyped and clichéd exploitation film about a serial rapist known as the Aspirin Kid (Ray Danton), who hangs out with a group of beatniks while continuing to victimize attractive suburban housewives. Set in beatnik bars and on the beaches of LA, with some humorous dialog and a misogynistic cop played by Steve Cochran who tracks down the Kid after his own wife becomes a victim, the film has a refreshing originality, though generally it is laughably ridiculous, with its goateed beatniks staring off into space while listening to recorded car crashes, jazz, and the worst Beat poetry ever recited. With Mamie Van Doren, and a cast of several familiar faces that would crop up in Beach Party films, its nearly done in by what is now referred as camp, though there is enough of a story there to keep it moving along.
cricket-14
Mamie Van Doren is deliciously "pneumatic" as always, a rougher version of Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield.This film is one of my favorite bad films - and from me that's a compliment!Juvenile delinquency films were Mamie's forte - check her out in Girls Town and High School Confidential - they have cool casts like this film, bad racy scripts, and Miss Van Doren herself "The Queen of Teen".In this film we have everything - the lovely Mamie Van Doren, a serial rapist "The Aspirin Kid"(played by Ray Danton), one of my favorite B movie hunks (namely Steve Cochran) in a bathing suit no less, a hula-hooping suburban housewife, and even a very blonde Vampira (!) in a speaking role, reciting some hip Beatnik poetry about parents being a "drag". And the children of (much more talented) famous parents: Charles Chaplin Jr, Jim Mitchum, etc. What more could you ask for in a camp trash late '50s flick?This film is definitely a must-see for any trash, B movie lover . . . as are most of Mamie Van Doren's late "50's films.
