68 Kill (5 Stars)

The first time I watched "68 Kill" was at the 2017 Stuttgart Fantasy Film Festival. Watching it again on Blu-ray, without the stress of having to watch so many films each day, I can appreciate it more, and I've increased my rating to a full five stars.

Chip Delacroix is a sewer worker who lives in a trailer with his girlfriend Liza, a prostitute. It's difficult to say which one of them has the worse job. Liza has a plan. She knows that one of her customers has $68,000 in his safe. She borrows two guns from her brother Dwayne and says they should rob him. The guns are just to threaten the man if he's still awake, which is unlikely. Nobody will get hurt.

Or so Liza says. When she sees her customer and his wife she doesn't hesitate to kill them. There's also a young woman in the house, Violet, who's paid to take part in threesomes. She's locked in the trunk of Chip's car and taken to Dwayne, who pays a lot of money for attractive women. He likes to cut them into pieces. Everyone needs a hobby!

Chip knocks Liza unconscious and drives away with Violet. She says she loves him, but she's really interested in his money. On the way Chip meets other women, and they all want his money.

Watching the film today I see a similarity with Russ Meyer's "Supervixens". The women that Chip meets on the road might not be as busty as Russ Meyer's actresses, but they're all beautiful, evil and horny. Chip is an innocent who stumbles into the bed of one woman after another, unaware that he's being used.

The film received a lot of publicity in the British press when it was being made. The Daily Mail ran repeated articles on the film in 2016 and 2017, making it sound like it was going to be one of the biggest films of the year. Then it disappeared. It wasn't even shown in British cinemas. That's a shame. It's a film that deserves more publicity. It's an X-rated film, with explicit violence from beginning to end, but it's still a light-hearted comedy romp. It takes place in a world where women are stronger than men, which is a world where I would like to live.

When I first saw the film I found it strange that the women got so excited over $68,000. Liza says that it's enough money to "get out of this life forever". Really? In today's world it's only enough to last one or two years, and even then it's not enough to live in luxury. It's not like they're stealing a million dollars. Now I understand that the relatively small amount of money is appropriate to the film. The girls in the film are all living in poverty, so $68,000 seems like a huge fortune. They've never held so much in their hands, so they overestimate its value.

As I said in my first review, everyone should watch this film. No exceptions!

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