A tough middle-aged woman, Carroll Baker, does electrolysis out of her home and runs a female-assassin service on the side. Enter a studly male lodger, Perry King, who joins the band of cold-blooded vixens and... this intoxicating indie follows the nightlife of the sick and twisted throughout New York city as they: drop a car on a mechanic, beat up an old man (Lawrence Tierney) and his dog, toss a crying infant out a window, plan the murder of an autistic child, and hang around talking about nothing.
This isn't a great so-bad-it's-good flick, but then again it's not a terrible b-movie (or rather, d-movie) either. Real actors deliver lines professionally, making you forget the anemic budget. And you'll be tempted several times to stop watching... the adventure gets trudgingly-painful, especially when the storyline centers on Susan Tyrrel giving another purposefully-annoying (though hypnotic) performance; and many of the perfectly-pointless diatribal-conversations drag on way too long.
But by the very end... As blues guitar icon Mike Bloomfield's pornesque instrumental rendition of "You've Got The Cutest Little Baby Face" plays (like in the opening credits)... You'll realize that what you experienced, for better or worse, was some really weird, and very original, stuff.
This isn't a great so-bad-it's-good flick, but then again it's not a terrible b-movie (or rather, d-movie) either. Real actors deliver lines professionally, making you forget the anemic budget. And you'll be tempted several times to stop watching... the adventure gets trudgingly-painful, especially when the storyline centers on Susan Tyrrel giving another purposefully-annoying (though hypnotic) performance; and many of the perfectly-pointless diatribal-conversations drag on way too long.
But by the very end... As blues guitar icon Mike Bloomfield's pornesque instrumental rendition of "You've Got The Cutest Little Baby Face" plays (like in the opening credits)... You'll realize that what you experienced, for better or worse, was some really weird, and very original, stuff.