Robin left her parents and went on a long hitchhiking trip across a large country. The spectacular police pursuit that opens the picture is replaced by a useless scene of the accident. Not only does the girl remain unharmed, but after a few minutes nothing reminds us of the incident. Entering the territory of a private beach, Robin again finds himself in trouble, from which it is much more difficult to get out.
A young hippie was invited to dinner by a strange type Jason and his sister. The guest decided to stay the night. A restless sleep allowed her to hear the noise coming from the basement. She goes down, slowly opens the iron door and sees the owner holding a meatcake in his hands. From now on, haunting memories of this ill-fated room will haunt her.
The notorious actor Lawrence Harvey took the director's chair and successfully coped with the role of the main villain. An incurable illness prevented him from seeing the premiere of his work. The film tells about a few days of wandering Robin, whose fate is constantly on the way. The American movie motive of the road can be interpreted as the desire of a young, yet inexperienced person to find inner balance, to set the direction of his life. Maybe that’s why the beach is called that.
The killer only evokes sympathy. He is deeply unhappy and, as his sister said, unable to change. About the suffering that came to Jason's lot since the war years, say his dying tears.
One of the most popular slashers about a family of maniacs and a lover of cutting strangers with a chainsaw was released in the same 1974, but six months earlier. The brainchild of Hooper is remembered as soon as you get acquainted with the topic that Harvey raises in his painting. Only in it, in place of a wound saw, a hex stands up, which scares us much less.
In this chameleon film, the modest, melancholy and tedious drama takes on episodes of a bizarre blood-red hue.