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Molly (Millie Perkins) divides her time between babysitting her sister Cathy's (Vanessa Brown) boys (Jean Pierre Camps, Mark Livingston), waiting tables at her lover Long John's (Lonny Chapman) bar, fantasizing about her sailor-dad's (John F. Goff) return from the sea, where he had allegedly gone missing 15 years ago, daydreaming in front of the TV, her only link to real life (or is it), and castrating and killing football players (Gene Rutherford, Jim Sims) ... or was the last one a daydream, too?

Nope, they are really dead, but no trail seems to lead to Molly, and 2 inept police detectives (George 'Buck' Flower, Richard Kennedy) suspect pretty much everybody associated with her, but somehow never come round to suspecting her too.

Later, Molly starts an affair with TV commercial actor McPeak (Stafford Morgan), much to the dismay of his girlfriend Clarissa (Roberta Collins), who soon pulls out a gun and shoots at him (but misses). Enough reason for or 2 cops to hold both Clarissa and McPeak for murdering the football players (admitteldly, here the film lost me a bit). Molly meanwhile goes to Jack Dracula's (Stan Ross) tattoo studio to have a mermaid tattooed on her chest, later meets up with a just released McPeak again ... to kill him, using the very same razor he tended to use in his commercials.

She later wakes up in Long John's bed, all covered in blood, but when he asks her about it, she claims she just wanted to cut away her tattoo (clever girl).

Soon though, Long John and Doris (Peggy Feury) - Molly's friend and colleague at work - learn the truth about both Molly's killings and why she did it ... and it has to do with her sailor dad who might not have been the ideal man she always draws him to be ...

Typically weird 1970s genre stuff that might promise a creature feature in its title and art, but instead comes off as a tripped out piece of psycho horror, and one with some quite interesting and warped ideas. Sure, the script's not 100% comprehensive and features a few too many plotholes, the nudity is often gratuituous and more designed to distract from the story rather than anything else, and Matt Cimber is just too mediocre a director to truly make the movie something more than (however odd) grindhouse fodder, but there's plenty there to wow the audience still, and the drawn-out finale alone is well worth a look!

Scriptwriter Robert Thom by the way was lead actress Millie Perkins' real life husband, who has written the role especially for her.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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