Stage Fright (1980)
7/10
Really Great Early Slasher and Ozploitation Film
27 October 2012
A little girl named Cathy tries to keep her mother from making out with a man while driving one day, and she inadvertently causes her mother's death in the car crash. 16 years later, Cathy has changed her name to Helen and has become a psychotic actress.

This film is pretty awesome. It relies on the absolute bare minimum of plot, with a killing every five minutes or so. And it does not always make sense -- why does she kill? Why the multiple personalities? I do appreciate that she uses broken glass as a reference to her mother dying in a windshield.

The soundtrack is also awesome, with the same underlying theme playing over and over again. Sometimes this level of repetition is annoying (such as in "Hausu"), but here I think it played well and just added to the silliness of it all. I am not exactly sure what makes something qualify as "ozploitation", but I am glad this fits the bill, because maybe more people will see it.
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