I'm not a big hardcore porno fan, but I like a lot of the pre-hardcore "roughies" as well as the "rape-revenge" and Italian "terror" films of the 70's that were inspired by "Last House on the Left". This is kind of hardcore version of those. These kinds of films are notorious because they contain violence and rape, but I have found them to be either very realistic, harrowing, and disturbing (i.e. "Last House", "I Spit on Your Grave"), but NOT at all erotic, OR (as is the case with most of them) simply too ridiculous to take seriously whether they're erotic or not. The "hardcore roughies" I've seen almost always fall into the latter category. Between the typically bad porno acting, the typically bad porno directing, the incredibly inappropriate porno music, the complete lack of character development, and above all, the long, LONG sex scenes that take up most of the running time(I briefly dozed off during one sex scene here and left to make a sandwich during another), it's just really not necessarily to keep reminding yourself (a la the famous "Last House promotional campaign) that it's only a movie. . it's only a movie. . .
This has a couple things going for it. The lead actor Jamie Gillis was not only the most demented pervert in 70's porn, but he was also one of the best actors. He's not exactly David Hess, but who is? His two accomplices, unfortunately, seem like they're trying to perform scenes from a 70's Al Pacino or Dustin Hoffman movie in their beginning acting class (even when they're getting a b.j. or having sex they won't shut the hell up). The victimized girls don't have to act too much (their mouths are usually otherwise occupied), but they have a good "look". They're not quite the innocent-looking girls-next-door like Sandra Cassel in "Last House", Sherry Buchanon in "Last House on the Beach", or Leanora Fani in "Naked Massacre", and they're not seemingly unattainable beauties like Camille Keaton in "I Spit on Your Grave", but they're not just sleazy looking porno-skanks either. Of course, they eventually end up enjoying the initially forced sex, which may offend some, but that's also exactly why this movie is patently unbelievable and nowhere near as disturbing as the rape-revenge classics.