Let's look back at a Film about a Hair Stylist who ends the Film wielding a Chainsaw. Curious?
Read on...
It's main Attraction?
The Lead Stylist- a big, black sex machine that's a hit with all the ladies. No, you shut your mouth! Rude.
He's here to keep setting up Scenes that are almost Porn...but nothing is visible on-camera.
I'm pretty sure that Machete was parodying this...
He falls head over heels for his Receptionist, which gives us the most romantic and forced montage until Julie & Jack.
What could go wrong?
Well, she used for a guy named- you guessed it- Mr. Big and he sends his goons to smash up the place to get her back.
Our Lead is always conveniently away when the bad things happen, since we have to save THAT for the Finale.
He gets all mopey when it seems like she really wants to be gone, but she's just protecting him. Sadly, The Cure's first Album wouldn't come out until 1979, so he'd just have to settle for going to his Cabin.
She eventually takes some evidence from the bad guys and flees to him, getting the Salon (and random Customers) caught in the crossfire.
As teased by the Intro, we *finally* get something interesting as he fends off a trio of Gangsters with a small chainsaw! He wins and the Film just cuts to a distorted frame. The End.
Oh and did I mention that this was done by Greydon Clark? Yes, the guy behind Stargames and Dark Future! Same one!
This is...not as interesting as it might sound. If you love that retro, '70s vibe and don't ask for much else, you get it here. The Music, the Fashion- all of that. Sadly, a great Story doesn't come with that.
Our Hero only has 3 Settings- Mildly-Bemused (when constantly asked for sex), Sad (when she's gone) and Pensively-Mad (see above). He's not exactly the most emotive guy and you kind of need this when the Plot is thinner than a line of you-know-what at Studio 54.
Other than the funky (somewhat insistent) music and silly flourishes (like fading into a film distortion for every transition), there's little here to make the Film stand out amongst stuff like Black Samurai and the like. Sadly, it got far less acclaim than, well, the 'white version'...
A fun concept kind of gets buried in all of the Montages and nothing. A decent, random Ending saves it from being a complete loss.
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