Sunday, January 28, 2018

Autumn Born (1979)

How bad is it? 8
How unintentionally bad is it? 9
How enjoyably bad is it? 3



This was Dorothy Stratten's first film, a soft-core porn film without sex. She stars as a 17 year-old who's been spending her inheritance, so her father sets her up to be kidnapped and sort-of reprogrammed by an uncle (if I recall), via beatings, rape and humiliation. She goes a little insane and befriends a toy mouse and sort-of develops Stockholm Syndrome before she turns the tables on her captor and escapes. The ending has a twist so close to the last frame that you have to sort-of put the plot together yourself. [Yes, that's three "sort-of" comments. It sort-of a movie.] All the film is is shots of Stratten's body being shown to its best advantage, but the film isn't even well-shot or well-lit.


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