Point of Terror (1971)

This unremarkable showbiz potboiler is distinguished by the presence of cult favorite Dyanne Thorne (Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS) and the amusing Tom Jones impersonations of screenwriter/producer/star Peter Carpenter. As the tight-trousered entertainer at the local Lobster House, Carpenter is a bump-and-grind lothario without scruples (or shirt buttons) who ends up in over his head after hustling Thorne, the frustrated wife of a crippled record company executive. While Point of Terror is billed as a horror film, it's more sexploitation soap opera than terror flick, with abundant nudity (both male and female), infidelity, forbidden love, mysterious secrets, and betrayal. Director Alex Nicol includes some inspired touches, like a poolside wheelchair accident punctuated with the sounds of a bullfight crowd, but it's the camp content that modern audiences will relate to best. Carpenter writes in plenty of excuses to remove his shirt and lip-syncs an overwrought lounge-rock number called "Lifebeats" more times than is prudent, and the busty Thorne's outfits are hellacious creations that defy both gravity and good taste. ~ Fred Beldin, All Movie Guide