The Rain Killer

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The Rain Killer

One of the worst films I have seen in recent times. It's so boring that right after 10 minutes you feel like you don't watch the film. The production value is not at it's best this where I felt like I'm not watching a film but some c grade tv drama. Acting , direction, dialogues, editing everything in the film is annoying and unbearable. I would recommend Lucio Fulci's 1982 Giallo "The New York Ripper" rather than this crap. 1/10

This crude exhibition of zero talent is far worse than most actual porno films. Such films usually are at least somewhat funny. I watched it only because the usually excellent Ray Sharkey was the star. He is the only person in the cast you'll probably recognize. The film is degraded. It is filled with sex shots and sex plot line that don't make sense. It jumps from scene to scene very awkwardly. Sharkey himself shows little of his acting ability. The rest of the cast shows virtually no talent. A horrible movie. A true disappointment for Sharkey fans like me. I don't understand why he made it. Perhaps to give homosexuals some screen time.

Well, it's cheaper than cheap so they weren't working with much more than a shoe string... and the script needed polishing... and some of the acting was bad. But, it was a B-Movie, and one that actually tried to make something of itself within the constraints of those limitations. It still manages to be suspensful, erotic (the only way to really sell it), and still comes away with a decent enough plot and a few shining moments of actual acting ability to be watchable... especially since they were able to make it moody. You just have to realize that you're watching a cheap movie when you sit down, but cheap doesn't always mean void of entertainment, and this one actually manages to be entertaining as it brings it's A game to the B genre.

This fluffy sugar-coated bunny hop was sure fun. It was an effective mystery that delivered. This sweet pickle got a little side-tracked and got involved with the * character, but never mind that, because she supplied some juicy eye candy if you know what I mean. -**1/2 stars

I have recently discovered, to my great surprise, that "The Rain Killer" has achieved a kind of cult status in Europe, especially Italy. An Italian journalist contacted me a few months ago looking for background on the film to be included in a forthcoming book about the genre. I would not presume to review the film, in fact I have not seen it in many years. I have only a VHS copy that I recorded off cable, but the new interest in the film might finally generate a DVD release, perhaps as part of a Roger Corman retrospective. (Califilm was one of his subsidiary companies.) Anyway, the book should be released in Europe in 2014. Ray Cunneff