year: 1978
runtime: 80′
director: Don Dohler
cast: Don Leifert, Tom Griffith,
Richard Dyszel, Mary Mertens
writer: Don Dohler
cinematography: Britt McDonough
music: Kenneth Walker
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A small town in Maryland is hit by a series of gruesome and inexplicable murders. Sheriff Cinder (Tom Griffith) is clueless what to do about the problem, and even if he had an idea, it would probably be difficult for him to set a plan into action, given that he seems to be fused to his desk and also possibly one of the walking, moustachioed dead. In a sense, I’m quite glad he loves his desk so much, because another sex scene featuring him rubbing his moustache about some poor woman like that nightmarish episode in the later Nightbeast would probably shatter my sanity for good.
Anyway, the Sheriff knows well that he has no clue and no talent for police work and would very much like to call the state police on the mass slaughter. The town’s mayor (Richard Dyszel) however, won’t hear of it. You see, there’s a large “entertainment complex” (I imagine a very pink bordello) going to be built on the edge of town, and the mayor doesn’t want the investors to get nervous. I’m sure they prefer a series of unsolved murders to a solved one.
