Nude Celebs: Hilda Fuchs - Spanish director Juan Piquer Simón and co-writer (and horror mainstay) Joe D’Amato uncorked this ghastly hack-and-slash flick in the early 80’s cashing in on the success of the original Friday the 13th and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies which proved audiences had an appetite for boobs and blood. While it’s spirited fun for fans of cheesy horror, this tale of a repressed child maturing into a chainsaw wielding co-ed murderer may be too gory and extreme for casual viewers. Others, however, simply won’t make it past the atrocious dubbing!

It’s Boston in the 1940’s, and a young lad is putting together a puzzle featuring, once assembled, a picture of a naked woman. His mother scolds him, but rather than simply take a powder and play with some Lincoln Logs, he instead hacks mom to pieces with an axe. Jumping 40 years into the future, young women on a college campus are being chopped up by an unknown psychopath – who just happens to have a puzzle of his own he’s been waiting a long to time finish. There’s plenty of red herrings tossed out for the sake of “plot,” but the main draw for almost all viewers are the gory chainsaw deaths which are zealously executed by the moviemakers.

D’Amato fans hold this one close to his Antropophagus as the best of his over one hundred, fifty credits, and it is important to note the producer (and D’Amato’s co-writer on the movie), Dick Randall is a veteran producer of many painfully bad kung fu and erotica pictures (including several “Emmanuelle” flicks). The combination of the pair, under the expert direction of Simón (also known as the helmer behind Slugs: The Movie and Monster Island) makes this as good as chocolate and peanut butter. This is exploitation truly done 80’s style, and you’d be hard pressed to find as good (and as funny) an example of the quintessential Xeroxed slasher formula.

The movie features several one-time actresses dropping their kit before being dispatched in a variety of ways, most notably Roxana Nieto, Carmen Aguado and Hilda Fuchs.

• Format: Color, Dubbed, NTSC
• Studio: St Clair Vision
• DVD Release Date: March 2, 2004
• Run Time: 90 minutes