Basically a backwoods guy with a raccoon hat shoots down a plane with four passengers, and kills two of them, and then gets shot in the face with a flare gun. No back stories at all. Dialogue consisting largely of imaginative lines like, "Where are you going?" "I'm going to sit under that tree over there." The highlights include the Bushwhacker supposedly striking Sherry very hard, but rather than using sound effects, the director keeps the music going at full blast, and we see the BW gingerly touch her, as she writhes in pain. Then the BW picks up a flimsy piece of a shrub, and whip her with it. This is the equivalent of whipping someone with a flower! He then leads her away with a rope with a red hair cloth over her mouth so she won't scream, but he doesn't tie up her hands, so she could take the hair cloth off anytime she wants to, but for some reason, doesn't...

For those who like such things, the only redeeming factors are a decent jazz group basically playing a few original tunes and improvising, and watching Sherry being carried around nude and "touched" to death. Even the legendary lesbian necrophilia scene is quite a letdown.

Oh.. Dear.. Lord..

The review...

of...

THE BUSHWACKER

OK.. Here's the "story" A crazed loon, complete with Davy Crockett hat runs amok in the California desert. He sees an airplane flying above, and shoots it down with his rifle.

The plane crashes (or so we're led to believe.. ) and 4 passengers run away before it explodes (Be careful with that cherry bomb! YOu may lose a finger!) The four people -- a pilot and 3 actually pretty beautiful women -- decide that they're in the middle of nowhere (despite several scenes with roads and one with some high tension lines in the distance),and should find their way out.

The pilot and one of the chicks get it on 3 times, and the other two chicks get it on with each other twice -- once after ONE OF THEM HAS DIED! Im not kidding.

Well, the BUshwacker loon carries off one of the girls, kills her after tying her to a tree (about ONE HOUR IN TO THE FILM!) and then carries off another, and cuts off one of her breasts..

The Bushwacker shoots the pilot and runs off. Then the remaining chick has a brilliant idea. She tries seducing the Bushwacker while the pilot (who was only grazed by the shot, unbeknownst to the bushwacker) tries to hit him over the head with a branch..

The remaining chick takes off her top, bushwacker pushes her to the ground, bad guy gets hit with branch, and then gets shot with a flare gun. Cue credits.

For those who have seen ""Manos" The Hands of Fate", this movie is one hundred times worse. I am not kidding.

From the multiple disappearing/reappearing blankets that happen to be conveniently scattered about the desert when there's nudity (HOnestly, we only see a person carrying one at around the 1:15 mark),to the almost unreadable credits... WRITTEN WITH A SHARPIE ON PLYWOOD.. this one is a total stinker. I recommend that everyone see it once just to see how boring nudity can be.

I wanted to like it. I really did. It would seem to me that it had all of the ingredients that should make for an interesting flick. All of the elements are there...nudity, sex, and violence. Dare I say it's even somewhat historically relevant as it takes thing a step further than the "roughies" that came before it.

The only problem is that it's incredibly dull. Seemingly endless scenes of walking around in circles followed by more of the same. The soft-core scenes were...well, I've never seen anything like it. It's almost like they were afraid of each other, or had never even seen people together let alone done anything with anyone themselves. Kinda like what maybe a six year old would think people do. It's not that I was looking for hardcore sex as much as I don't think I've ever seen anything less erotic that's supposed to be erotic.

There is a substantial amount of nudity (sometimes full frontal at that). The women are quite attractive too. You'd think that would be enough to keep everything afloat, but after a while it grows thin. Yea...I know. I wouldn't think it was possible either, but they managed to find a way.

Well there's always the violence, right? Not really. The idea behind it, perhaps, but the execution left a lot to be desired. What should be the most simple of effects comes off about as poorly as possible.

I'm very forgiving of low budget flicks. Hell I'm not only tolerant of them, but usually take a great deal of pleasure from what I call the "cheeze element". Sadly even that's not enough to save this one.