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Yako, Cazador de Malditos
Yako - Der eiskalte Rächer
Mexico 1986
produced by Raúl Galindo for Producciones Galubi
directed by Rubén Galindo
starring Eduardo Yánez, Gregorio Casal, Humberto Elizondo, Diana Ferreti, Gabriela Goldsmith, Fabián Aranza, Mario Casillas, Armando Chávez, Victoria Conti, Alfredo Gutiérrez, Manuel Ituarde, Roberto Montiel, Bob Nelson, Oscar Travan, Pedro Weber Chatanuga
story by Rubén Galindo, screenplay by Carlos Valdemar, music by Pedro G.Galarza
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Yako (Eduardo Yánez) goes on a camping trip with his girlfriend Diana
(Diana Ferreti), who has just found out she's pregnant. Unfortunately
though, a group of backwood baddies are roaming the exact remote area Yako
and Diana have picked as their camping ground, and when they catch Diana
alone, they capture, strip and gangrape her. Yako rushes to her rescue,
but he's simply outnumbered by the bad guys, tied to a tree and forced to
watch as the villains rape her to death. Rather inexplicably, after having
killed the girl, all the baddies head off and leave Yako, essentially a
witness to their crime, alive. It doesn't take Yako long to free himself,
then he buries Diana, heads back to his camp to fetch the sniper rifle he
has brought with him on the trip (nothing says "I love you"
better than a siper rifle I suppose), shoots some of the bad guys, and
builds all kinds of different traps to kill the others, whom he fights
guerilla style. In the end, he has taken care of all the bad guys and even
freed a woman from their clutches. Rather simplistic and
cheaply done rape-and-revenge movie that's taking quite a few hints from First
Blood - especially considering the traps the hero is building for his
opponents, but in all is rather a disappointment: The screenplay is badly
written and ill-paced, the direction is rather rudimentary, the action is
badly staged, and every now and again the camera seems to shy away from
showing the violence crucial to the plot (for budgetary reasons most
probably). What remains is a rather ill-concieved piece of macho trash
that might at best score in the so-bad-it's-good category - however, there
are far better bad films around!
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