This is for the folks who love mean girl movies, from 50s/60s girl gangs to HEATHERS and its successors, and those who appreciate that Lifetime and other made-for-TV thrillers are where the legacy of the expoitation film continues. (And if you DON'T love these movies, you can't sit with us.) As soon as you look past some technical limitations that are a given in most lower budget films, this is pure gold. I'm very far from being a teenager at…
I came for Wings Ha, but it's actually Christopher Reeve who gets to be the unhinjed one, playing a pedophilic kidnapper - In one scene, where the child has successfully hidden himself away in the apartment where he's held, Reeve breaks down in tears, crying, "I wanna play!!" Yikes. Even better is Meredith Baxter as an alcoholic mother who's lost in the sauce when her young son goes missing after leaving for school early to meet his estranged father for…
The standout element in this film, even as it veers into the dull and plodding, is Senta Berger, whose face always tells you just enough of what she's thinking, and not a bit more. The casting of Alain Delon really serves to gloss over some questionable plot points with Berger's Christiane, because anyone faced with a spectre of beauty like Delon might rearrange their life choices a little.
