SAVAGE ABDUCTION is a biker thriller heavily marketed as an adult exploitation movie in the grindhouse style. The title speaks for itself while the cover shows a stripped woman screaming in fear. It's a film that promises rape, humiliation, abduction, and violence in equal measure, a truly grubby experience in film-making.
The reality is quite different. Aside from the dark and depraved atmosphere, this film could well be rated PG because there's very little objectionable material in it. The threat of rape is there but it thankfully never transpires. The two girls suffer the humiliation of being abducted but very little happens to them other than being forced to strip to their underwear.
There's a lot of padding with the biker gang who play a big part in the proceedings but fail to actually do much in the way of furthering the plot. The acting is histrionic and over the top, as you'd expect for the genre. SAVAGE ABDUCTION has the right look and feel but the only novel element is the inclusion of a believable psychopath character who spends his time stabbing life size dolls and the like. There's a lot of pot-smoking and emoting too.
The reality is quite different. Aside from the dark and depraved atmosphere, this film could well be rated PG because there's very little objectionable material in it. The threat of rape is there but it thankfully never transpires. The two girls suffer the humiliation of being abducted but very little happens to them other than being forced to strip to their underwear.
There's a lot of padding with the biker gang who play a big part in the proceedings but fail to actually do much in the way of furthering the plot. The acting is histrionic and over the top, as you'd expect for the genre. SAVAGE ABDUCTION has the right look and feel but the only novel element is the inclusion of a believable psychopath character who spends his time stabbing life size dolls and the like. There's a lot of pot-smoking and emoting too.