#death weekend

[cosmonautroger]

Death Weekend, William Fruet, 1976

[charnel-grounds]

Brenda Vaccaro in Death Weekend (1976)

[forever70s]

Don Stroud in "Death Weekend" (1976)

[shiningwizard]

Death Weekend (William Fruet, 1976)

A woman in a souped up car runs afoul of some townie thugs in their own souped up car. She puts them to shame and then drives with her boyfriend to what she thinks is a party but is really the boyfriend’s idea of a sex weekend. The thugs can’t let shame go and so begins a home invasion movie. A good one, with one or two nice giveaways that it’s Canadian. The boyfriend cares more about the destruction of material things and his carefully laid plans to score than her. The underhand threat of the boyfriend replaced with his immediate threat, leading to an ending suggesting things no one’s meant to provide intellectual space for. Maybe the key of these movies is how scummy and menacing the head thug is and Don Stroud plays it superbly.

[ladamarossa]

DEATH WEEKEND aka THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE (1976)

[thirtytwoelvismovies]

Lobby cards and Mae West’s shadow.

[grindhousecellar]

[cosmonautroger]

Death Weekend, 1976