Out of Control

There are some actors and actresses who guarantee a film will be awful because a) they can't act b) they were chosen for their looks and c) they have some of the worst choices and/or luck in choosing roles. For actors in the 80s it was Andrew McCarthy.

For actresses, it was Betsy Russell. This piece of junk, Avenging Angel, and another feces passed off as a gem where she played a female mechanic. Yes, I was around back then. And somehow this junk escaped my notice.

Russell had quite the figure, so I thought I'd see this. The premise also showed promise. But the film is so awful in so many ways. Every annoying cliche. Every teen stereotype of the 80s. The worst of 80s music, you know, the synths included because they're too lazy to pay a band, the processed drum machines, and saccharine guitar to try to win over hard rock audiences.

Quickly you find yourself fast forwarding to the nude scenes. But this film is still so annoying you give up and just use Big to find the actresses nude stills. Do that and save yourself the irritation of this film.

Eight graduating seniors prepare for the party of a lifetime as they head to an island owned by the family of rich boy prom king Keith (Martin Hewitt). Trouble arises when their plane goes down in a storm and they end up stranded on a remote island. It is soon lots of bickering until some nasty drug dealers show up. This was the sophomore feature for Allan Holzman after the fun Forbidden World (1982) and that premise sounds like it should be can't miss. But it misses by miles. You know you are in trouble when it opens with the annoying fat guy character (played by Andrew J. Lederer) talking to the camera and setting up the scenario for the audience. And this guy is reaaaaaally annoying, maybe top five all-time for me (he also sporadically offers voice over narration where he pines he can't get laid). Once they land on the island things flip from boring (let's wander to get wood) to bizarre (an extended drunken spin the bottle episode) to nasty (the drug dealers trying to rape the women). The whole thing just seems sloppy and off.

There's a germ of a good exploitive drive-in movie here - teenagers stranded on an island getting into sex games, then fighting drug smugglers who arrive and threaten to kill them. It might have worked had it not all been presented in such a dull and unimaginative way - as well as if the teenagers were a likeable bunch that we cared about. It doesn't help that the movie was severely cut up before its release (look at the running time), with a narrative device added to explain things that not only doesn't explain much, but is pretty annoying.

Out of Control is a great eighties exploitation flick featuring the beautiful Betsy Russell.

One famous, extended scene-the most important in the movie-shows a group of young adults, including Betsy Russell, dancing and gradually undressing. The scene is very erotic and provides an intimate look at Russell's stunning figure.

Almost everything else in the movie serves as a bookend to this pivotal scene. Enjoy!

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