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Well, if nothing else it's the only 70's revenge horror pic to actually be GOOD (you know, by movie standards instead of geek-show standards). Also, it depends on what cut you get. If you get the good one, then you get to see them disembowel Phyllis, and Krug carves his name into Mari's chest (Which, for some reason, is just so awesome. It's probably one of my favorite villainous acts ever. Another great one is him yelling at his kid until he killed himself. Briliant.). As far as shocking endings go, horror movies USUALLY had happier endings. And if they didn't, it was more "monster comes back and/or kills hero in the end" type unhappy. This was a whole new type of unhappy. The killers didn't come back to life or kill the girls then the parents. The parents went nuts and maimed, electricuted, slashed, fellated, shot at, and castrated them, and ends at the exact second the weight of what they did hits them. It's nothing new now, but give them some credit, at least, because they didn't do it because it was expected of the genre or anything.
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