Deadly Embrace

My review was written in February 1989 after watching the film on Prism video cassette. "Deadly Embrace" is an off-beat film noir, going direct to video. More care and a bigger budget would have helped. Framed by an awkward and irritating flashback structure, pic has Ken Abraham as a hapless young stud hired (rather suspiciously) to work as a houseman at rich businessman Jan-Michael Vincent's Beverly Hills estate. Vincent only has time for weekends at home, leaving his beautiful wife (Ty Randolph) alone and lonely. Her affair with Abraham starts on cue, but is disrupted when Abraham has his cute young girlfriend (perky Linnea Quigley) visit and shack up with him. Blackmailing and doublecrossing enuse, with a surprise ending. The flashback structure, with abstract shots of the hands of two guys, smoking, across a table while they voice-over the plot, doesn't pay off. Despite top billing, Vincent merely walks through this assignment. This focuses attention on Randolph, who is an impressive presence as the neglected wife. She previously used the monikers Tyler Windsor Randolph and Mindi Miller for screen credits in "Amazons" and "Body Double". Tech credits are okay but on the cheap side.

A typically cheap David DeCoteau production that was shot in 5 days, but without any of the campy fun of some of his other works like Nightmare Sisters or Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama. It's a competently made erotic thriller, but lacking any real style or narrative slow. Nudity fans get a good amount of equal opportunity skin from both men and women, but the script feels like it was written on the spot and all the actors seem like they're reading from a teleprompter.

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Deadly Embrace

A typically cheap David DeCoteau production that was shot in 5 days, but without any of the campy fun of some of his other works like Nightmare Sisters or Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama. It's a competently made erotic thriller, but lacking any real style or narrative slow. Nudity fans get a good amount of equal opportunity skin from both men and women, but the script feels like it was written on the spot and all the actors seem like they're reading from a teleprompter.

This is filmed back in the days when David Hasselhoff hair and Datsun 240Z's ruled pop culture. When films used fantasy outtakes aka "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." Chris (Ken Abraham) is hired by Charlotte (Ty Randolph) to be the live-in pool boy. Michelle (Linnea Quigley) is his girlfriend. Charlotte's husband (Jan-Michael Vincent) wants to destroy Redwoods and a divorce, but hates the word "half." Not hard to figure out a murder mystery with one suspect. Strict low budget "B" film with choppy sound. Guide: F-bomb, sex, nudity (Linnea Quigley, Ty Randolph, Michelle Bauer)

Jan Michael Vincent puts in one of Hollywood's most wooden performances as a philandering husband bizarrely determined to resist the obvious charms of his wife, the gorgeous Ty Randolph. Randolph manages to skilfully combine poignancy and a charged eroticism to her role as the neglected and ultimately disturbed wife. Ultimately, the poor plot and acting performances of the other principals condemns Deadly Embrace to mediocrity.