It's another cheaply shot grindhouse movie in a print so badly cared for that every color has faded to tan, where half the actors can't speak their lines and the script about a SWAT team raid, trying to take a serial killer is negligible. Yet the director, cameraman, editor and even the uncredited individual who who scored this clearly knew what they were doing and did it well, from performers who know how to move, to point-of-view shots from the killer's perspective, to tracking shots to a gradually increasing pace of cutting.
None of this makes it good, even when I consider that I've been looking at a lot of Poverty Row movies from the 1930s. The lead actresses are awful...well, they never showed up again. The hard work and sincerity don't compensate for the cheap shock shots. Even so, there are a lot of people with a taste for this sort of movie. For someone with that sort of taste, this is a well-done example of of the no-frills variety.
None of this makes it good, even when I consider that I've been looking at a lot of Poverty Row movies from the 1930s. The lead actresses are awful...well, they never showed up again. The hard work and sincerity don't compensate for the cheap shock shots. Even so, there are a lot of people with a taste for this sort of movie. For someone with that sort of taste, this is a well-done example of of the no-frills variety.