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tries to escape, but Alex catches her and proceeds to rape her. When Alex takes Lisa downstairs to rejoin the others, the doorbell rings. Alex forces Gloria to answer; when she opens the door, it's their teenage neighbor, Cindy. Alex grabs Cindy while Gloria tries to escape. Still holding the broken wine bottle, Ricky runs outside after Gloria and catches her, showing Gloria that he means no harm by tossing aside the wine bottle. Gloria responds to his simple nature by taking off her clothes and seducing him.
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locket Alex is wearing and reveals the reason for all this: the woman Alex raped and murdered at the park is Tom's sister, and Tom wants revenge. He and Lisa lured them to Gloria's house so they could kill them and make it look like self-defense. After shouting at him, Tom shoots the wounded Alex in the groin, making him fall into the swimming pool. Tom and Lisa take turns shooting Alex, who thrashes weakly in the water before a final bullet to the head by Howard finishes him for good.
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saying that the garage is closed, but the slow-witted Ricky decides to help and easily fixes the problem. Tom tells Alex and Ricky that they are driving to a friend's house in New Jersey for a party and invites them along. Before leaving, Alex stops by his locker, filled with various weapons he uses to murder people, and takes a straight-edged razor.
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Sometime later, Alex and his friend Ricky are closing up the underground garage where they both work, planning to go to a local disco. Before they can leave, a Cadillac pulls in with a young, well-dressed couple, Tom and his girlfriend Lisa, asking for help with their car. Alex refuses to help them,
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Once during an interview about the making of the film, Deodato was asked about his initial thoughts of the script when he first read it. He responded: "I thought it was too violent. I make violent films, but softer ones. But this film was full of violence, and that made me uncomfortable. When I met
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Bloodied and battered, Tom runs into the nearby study and pulls a 9mm pistol out from a desk drawer. Tom shoots Alex a few times, then kicks him through the glass back door. Gloria and the other women untie Howard, and the 5 descend upon the fatally wounded Alex lying on the ground. Tom removes the
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As Alex becomes more frustrated, he sees the hosts cheating at poker with Ricky. Alex pulls out the straight-edge razor, and a fight breaks out between him and Howard. Alex throws Howard outside the back door, beats him viciously, and throws him into the pool. Laughing, Alex urinates on Howard and
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Inside, Alex cuts Cindy's blouse off with the razor while singing. Ricky then returns to the house with Gloria just as Alex forces Cindy to strip off the rest of her clothes and repeatedly slashes her with his razor. At this point, Ricky changes his mind and attempts to stop Alex. Upset at being
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Alex and Ricky proceed to beat on their hosts-turned-hostages, with Alex slashing Tom's face with the razor and smashing his face into the poker table. Ricky holds the others at bay with a wine bottle while Alex sexually assaults both Gloria and Glenda. Lisa runs to an upstairs bedroom where she
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The four arrive at a large villa, welcomed by the owner, Gloria, and her friends, Glenda and Howard. Minutes later, it becomes obvious to Alex and Ricky that the rich people are looking for easy thrills. Gloria asks Ricky to do a striptease to some disco music and is further humiliated by being
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Gloria stops Howard from shooting Ricky after returning to the house while Glenda tends to the wounded Cindy. Tom and Lisa go into the study to talk about their plan. Tom says that it worked out for the best despite some mistakes and then picks up the phone to call the police.
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goaded to drink alcohol with each move. However, Alex stops Ricky before he strips completely naked. Tom, Howard, and Glenda next play poker with Ricky while Lisa begins sexually teasing Alex and invites him upstairs to shower with her, only to push him away.
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Alex is a serial killer driving around New York City at night when he spots a young woman, Susan, driving alongside him. He follows her to a nearby park, where he rapes her before strangling her to death. He then takes her locket as a trophy.
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through their Shriek Show label in its fully uncut form on 17 December 2002. It was released on DVD in the UK in 2011 by 'Shameless Screen Entertainment'. A limited edition
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David Hess, I thought that with my direction I could make him do anything. But when I first read it, I found it quite disturbing."
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The entire film was shot on a low budget, in only three weeks in September 1979, after Deodato had finished production on
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betrayed by his friend, Alex turns against Ricky, slashes his abdomen wide open, and then breaks down in regret.
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on 29 March 2022, with a newly scanned 4K transfer from the original camera negative, a bonus documentary disc,
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drags him back inside, tying him to a piano leg and proclaiming that he is running the party now.
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and violently turn against the partygoers after they mock them. The film is a loose remake of
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when first submitted on 16 March 1981, and later found itself on the DPP list of "
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about the film's theatrical/home media releases, and reception.
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Ruggero Deodato
Gianfranco Clerici
David A. Hess
Annie Belle
Christian Borromeo
Giovanni Lombardo Radice
Riz Ortolani
Italian
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Gianfranco Clerici
Ruggero Deodato

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