The Sadist

I've been on a kind of roll lately watching as many exploitation movies as I can get my hands on, I Drink Your Blood, Blacula, I Eat Your Skin, The Last House On The Left, Ilsa: She Wolf Of The SS, you name it and I've been hunting it down and watching it. And, one that that I saw years ago and actually liked, I finally found and rewatched. It's the Arch Hall Jr. vehicle, The Sadist.



The story here isn't anything special, a trio of people find themselves stranded on the backroads of (then) rural California. They get their car to what appears to be a junkyard in the hopes of getting it fixed, but no one is there. When they finally find someone, it's Arch Hall Jr. and his girlfriend, who are sadistic killers on the run from the law. The movie then becomes a cat and mouse game of Arch torturing and killing them slowly and them trying to get away from him.

The Sadist is a great example of B movies of the era, it's straight ahead and to the point and the acting is some of the most over the top acting ever put on celluloid! Arch Hall Jr. is really the star here, leering around at everyone and threatening them with is gun, and in the final scenes, when Arch finally gets his just desserts, the movie just ends, as if anything beyond this would be piling on!

I'm giving The Sadist three and a half out of four cigars,

because as low a budget as this movie is, it's still a fun little movie. It moves quickly, the scenery is chewed extensively and it's just a fun afternoon movie! So, until next time, when I'll reveal that the only person that I torture is my wife, but let's face it, she married me...she was asking for it! Until then, remember that the best movies are bad movies.