robertkildare

Beautiful flesh on view, but most of this is a dull and often indecipherable monologue by the pretentious photographer. He mutters, barely moving his lips, and has a heavy French accent. And it is all 1960s cliches adding up to nonsense. The models pretend to be impressed by his "insight."

Let's do the negatives first. The repeated shots of the animal heads is trite and repetitious. And the ending is trite. And some of the supporting cast is awful. The Indian, for example, is truly wooden. I thought Joe Mantegna was miscast. He did a decent job, but the strain showed. Miss De Luca is very skilled, and shines in the non-horror scenes. I would like to see more of her. The movie is genuinely suspenseful and well paced. And, yes, Miss De Luca looks lovely in her stripper scene. The chase scenes in the wilderness are effectively planned: the tension is high enough that we hatdly notice the nudity. Sum: not at all a waste of time.