Tainted is a trashy tale of murder with a touch of noir starring sexy blonde Shari Shattuck, whose primary objective in the film is to take off her clothes a lot: her character - teacher Cathy - has one sex scene, two shower scenes, a bath scene, and indulges in a spot of self-gratification in her lingerie. Phew!
Cathy's husband, crematorium owner Frank (Gene Tootle), realises that he is punching well above his weight and isn't happy about all the male attention that his wife receives. When he arrives home to find Cathy being attacked in the bedroom by an intruder, Frank stabs the man to death and then promptly has a fatal heart attack. Afraid of how this might affect her teaching job, Cathy buries her attacker in the back yard and puts her husband's body behind the wheel of his car on a highway, to be found by a passing motorist.
What Cathy doesn't realise is that Frank has secretly sold their home, and the new owner wants to install a swimming pool - exactly where the dead intruder is now buried. When the bulldozers arrive, Cathy must enlist the help of her sister-in-law (Park Overall) to dispose of the corpse...
The script, direction and editing for Tainted are fairly dreadful, the plot only starting to make sense once Cathy has been assaulted (about twenty minutes into the film). Not that I think for a minute that many people will be checking out this film for the story or for its technical excellence: this is one for Shattuck's fans who want to see the babe in her birthday suit, and on that count it definitely doesn't disappoint.
