Point of Terror (1. IMDb. Crown International Pictures + Peter Carpenter = match made in trash heaven! The legendary Peter Carpenter started his film career starring in a Russ Meyer film, VIXEN. He then made three other films before disappearing from the face of the earth. And what films they were. BLOOD MANIA and this one, POINT OF TERROR (I haven't seen . Carpenter stars as a lounge singer who sounds/looks like Tom Jones. The story is totally inconsequential. It's about people scheming to murder other people who murdered other people, etc. Basically, people using people because of money and greed kinda of story. Jesus and the woman taken in adultery – a passage known as the Pericope Adulterae (/ pWith better production values than BLOOD MANIA, POINT OF TERROR sometimes looks/sounds like a Russ Meyer film, without the extreme excess that's usually found in Russ Meyer's films. But the rest is still there: sex, trash, hopelessly dated dialogue, violence, buxom babes, beefcake, greed, 1. I say trash? It's Russ Meyer- lite. I love everything in POINT OF TERROR: the music (did Carpenter really sing those songs?), the fashion, the sudden sporadic bursts of violence, the focus on sex, sex, sex. The swingers dialogue: . The tackiness of it all. Though not as memorably over- the- top as BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, POINT OF TERROR is, IMO, much more entertaining than the over- baked BTVOTD. Favorite scenes: the opening credits, with Carpenter singing/dancing in a red fringe get- up. The beginning on the beach (Dyanne Thorne's bikini is definitely not sexy). Appropriateness of Brief Family Therapy. Long-term family therapy is not usually necessary within the context of treatment for substance abuse disorders. Directed by Alex Nicol. With Peter Carpenter, Dyanne Thorne, Lory Hansen, Leslie Simms. A nightclub singer has nightmares about being involved in adultery and murder. With Gordon Jackson, David Langton, Jean Marsh, Angela Baddeley. The trials of the British aristocratic Bellamy family and their household staff. Adultery (anglicised from Latin adulterium) is extramarital sex that is considered objectionable on social, religious, moral, or legal grounds. The sex scenes (the triptych one is cool). The scene around the swimming pool when the husband confronts Thorne. But nothing beats the scene with Leslie Simms, as Fran, in that purple hat. Fran is such a badass! Weldon, of Psychotronic Films fame, wrote in his books that he hates Peter Carpenter films, which surprises me because Peter Carpenter films are so perfectly Psychotronic: entertainingly bad. The main reason Weldon (and other fan boys) dislikes POT and BLOOD MANIA is probably because the focus is mainly on hunky Peter Carpenter (both films were produced by Carpenter himself.. But for me, this obvious difference is what makes these trashy movies unique/one of a kind. Long live Peter Carpenter. This Sunday's Gospel reading is taken from John 8. There we read the famous story about the woman caught in adultery. There is a famous textual issue involved with. Based upon the novel by Lois Gould and adapted (under the pseudonym Esther Dale) by Elaine May, Such Good Friends focuses on Julie Messinger (played by. John 8 New American Standard Bible (NASB) The Adulterous Woman. 8 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 Early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all. The notion that pornography, and especially hard-core pornography, has something to do with marital infidelity has been floating around the edges of the American.
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