The Takers

The Takers (1971)

1971

After a breakfast of LSD and hitchhikers, The Takers–two berserk bikers–decide to go upscale when they spot suburban housewife Laura and bachelorette Barbi, follow them to Laura’s home, and invite themselves in: “We’re gonna have us a party with some educated social-type broads!” And party they do until Laura’s hubbie (director Carl Monson) unexpectedly shows up to settle things with some shotgun vengeance and… well, one of the goofiest, most startling endings of any motion […]

The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail (1971)

1971
December 27, 2020

The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail begins with the mysterious death of a millionaire and spirals into the murder of his suddenly rich wife, which draws the attention of a dogged investigator, who follows a trail of blood to the bitter end. When a plane explodes in the air with no survivors, the unfaithful Lisa Baumer is informed that her husband, businessman Baumer, left a one-million-dollar insurance policy and she is the beneficiary. She travels […]

The Chambermaid’s Dream (1971) aka Frustration

1971

A sexually frustrated woman, living with her sister and the latter’s husband, is tormented by bizarre nightmares and violent erotic fantasies. Adélaïde is a sexually repressed woman who lives with her sister Agnès and her sister’s doctor husband Michel in a large house in the middle of the snowy nowhere of Europe. Observing the affection and overhearing the sounds of lovemaking between the couple soon begin to shatter the mind of hers, and she begins […]

Murmur of the Heart (1971)

1971

This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.