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21 May 1979 (USA)
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Five tourists, four women and one man, escape from the group in a holiday camp at a tropical place and get lost...
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Morbid and Rotten but good for some laughs.
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(Complete credited cast)| Priscilla Barnes | ... | Denise | |
| Barbara Feldon | ... | Evelyn | |
| Andrea Marcovicci | ... | Barbara | |
| Maureen McCormick | ... | Margret | |
| Michael Brandon | ... | Alan | |
| Ed Ka'ahea | ... | The Hunter |
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My husband ran off with a young girl. She looks similiar to you.
Denise Franklin: They usually do.
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I give this a 5 because this movie was mildly entertaining, but definitely not high caliber. On second thought, no, it was really awful. Watch only to see how people vacationed back in 1979. Shot on location in Hawai'i, it isn't as enjoyably awful as Ants! or Roller-coaster or Condominium. Looking deeper, the movie seems to be a thinly veiled attempt at exploiting girl power, TV movie style.
Priscilla Barnes looks hot, and is a good actress. Maureen McCormick looks good too. Maureen's mother is played by Barbara Feldon, and Andrea Marcovicci (another good actress) rounds out the girl power.
All four of these women meet each other at Club Harmony while on vacation, and they decide to take an inflatable dinghy excursion with Michael Brandon's character, who is the swaggering would-be hero, or so we think. Marcovicci and Brandon have some unresolved love issues, and Marcovicci is a man-hating unhappy wretch.
Pop goes the dinghy, they sink very close to a beach on an uncharted area of the jungle beyond the resort, and decide that if they can just hike over the mountain, they will get back to civilization. Meanwhile, there are two natives in the jungle who don't do anything except provide menace for our storyline.
Movie limps along with various morbid plot twists:
They steal one of the native's shotgun and kill him. Barnes is attracted to Brandon, Marcovicci rages on out of jealousy, and McCormick makes googly eyes at him, to the chagrin of Feldon.
Michael Brandon gets shot in the foot and the women then fashion a stretcher and cart him around the jungle until they accidentally drop him down a waterfall.
Marcovicci's character is done in by her man-hating anger which causes her to slip and fall down the side of a mountain.
Priscilla Barnes sings London's Burning. Maureen McCormick does a strange whirling dirvish dance for Michael Brandon. Barbara Feldon whines incessantly.
Only three women finally make it back to Club Harmony on foot, where they walk directly to one of those public showers on the beach to wash themselves clean, while the vacationing resort goers look on. The movie ends with a freeze frame of the three orgasmic looking wet women, happy to be back to civilization.
A Vacation in Hell was really awful, but London's Burning and the Marsha Brady dance were the highlights.