Anyone else feel this way? The movie just felt pretty average, and sometimes even a bit clumsy, until that slap-in-the-face of an ending!
I did NOT see that coming at all, and I thought that final scene was masterfully done.
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It still holds its own today even though some of the male characters overact.
Tuesday Weld is a terrible actress and ruins every scene she's in.
Good film, great ending and very true to life in so many ways. I remember when this film came out, it was very cutting edge showing independent women that really lived and acted like men.
It didn't go over well for many years. I think men felt threatened by the characters (and women of the mid 70's) open minded sexuality that was quite new back then.
If it harms none, do what thou wilt.
The ending remains the only scene in a movie that genuinely traumatized me.
I caught this on cable when I was about 11 or 12 years old, late at night after everybody else was asleep. My mom had the paperback on her bookshelf, and for some reason I just thought it was a soft-core deal, like 'Emmanuelle' or something like that. I watched the whole thing just waiting for boobs to appear.
So you can imagine what I felt like, sitting all alone in a dark house past midnight, when the finale happened. I couldn't move a muscle for probably thirty minutes. The lamp next to the sofa was like three feet away, and I still couldn't move to turn it on.
It ruined me for life when it came to horror movies. NOTHING I've ever seen was one-tenth as scary as that.
It was intense and disturbing. Plus, the way it just abruptly ends makes it even more disturbing.
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