★ 5 / 10
Never trust a domineering Mother!
Early grindhouse Proto-Slasher, presumed lost, until found and released by Vinegar Syndrome, that I watched on Tubi. It's also known under the name 'No Tears…
Early grindhouse Proto-Slasher, presumed lost, until found and released by Vinegar Syndrome, that I watched on Tubi. It's also known under the name 'No Tears For The Damned', which apparently has a slightly longer beginning and is my preferred title because there isn't actually much strangling until the end, as the first victims are despatched in other ways.It starts off more like a travelogue of the Vegas strip which is awesome to see but pads out the first 25 minutes which has very little plot. The middle part of the film is much better, hardly what you would call professional, but tells the story quite well and the end...well the end of the film is a big let down because it just stops, perhaps the very last scenes have been lost.The acting is acceptable, main character Jeff, played by Robert Dix, is certainly the best of the bunch, there is plenty of soft-core including an orgy sequence and it delivers the required feeling of sleaze, cheap alcohol and hookers.It's not a brilliant film, or essential viewing, unless you are a slasher completist, but is definitely a curio and the sort of thing that Vinegar Syndrome are experts in releasing. As a timepiece of the late 60's, 'Las Vegas Strangler' makes for a very interesting watch.
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Ripe and juicy midcentury sleaze.
EyeAskance
Lori is a hard-luck barroom hooker in Las Vegas who dreams of a better life, and her dream seems to come true when Jeff, a dashing and successful bachelor…
Lori is a hard-luck barroom hooker in Las Vegas who dreams of a better life, and her dream seems to come true when Jeff, a dashing and successful bachelor, sweeps her off her barstool and straight to the altar. Jeff, however, is not the man he appears to be...he's still living with his overbearing, manipulative mother, and she's none too pleased by her new daughter-in-law's presence. Worse yet, Jeff's a serial killer who's been blazing a gin-slicked trail of terror through Sin City, hitting the dingiest Vegas nightspots and exterminating every slutty, passed-out slag who crosses his path. He kills in a variety of gruesome ways, snipping a souvenir swatch of hair from each victim with a pair of giant ceremonial ribbon-cutting scissors. The implied reason for Jeff's psychosis is that his mother kept him dressed in a sissified Little Lord Fauntleroy getup with long hair until late in his childhood. Lori is perplexed by her new husband's nightly absence, and the fact that he still hasn't laid a hand on her...much to her mother-in-law's cruel amusement.NO TEARS FOR THE DAMNED/LAS VEGAS STRANGLER is, centrally, just another tit window from pre-porn times, when more than just a mouse click was needed to get an eyeful of the female mystique. It's a bit more ambitious than the quotidian example of this extinct realm of cinema, putting forward a fairly cohesive story with developed and passably limned characters. There's even a sliver of a sub-story involving an amorous gay piano player...it doesn't amount to anything, but it helps pad the film to feature length. Shorn of its naughty bits, it could nominally pass as a sub-B mainstream thriller(in noting the choppy placement of mature content, it would seem that may, indeed, have been the intention). It's sort of a masculine counterpart to the grimy post-noir shocker ANGEL'S FLIGHT(1965), another sexed-up poverty-row forerunner to the modern "slasher" subgenre, but centered on a female serial killer. Additionally, it's a real treasure for anyone with a taste for kitsch midcentury interior furnishings...there's no fewer than three mini-bars in this flick!I can't see anyone praising NO TEARS FOR THE DAMNED as a legitimately GOOD movie, but all things considered, it's a welcome addition to the recent windfall of rediscovered regional schlock which had long been feared lost, and it's got some great footage of iconic Vegas hotels which are no longer standing.5/10.
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★ 5 / 10
Entertaining enough
finercreative
So basically, "No Tears for the Damned" is the 1968 horror drama film thought to be lost, but recently was one of the 10 movies found and released via Vinegar…
So basically, "No Tears for the Damned" is the 1968 horror drama film thought to be lost, but recently was one of the 10 movies found and released via Vinegar Syndrome. Most of the 10 are pretty bad and subpar, but this one was actually a bit entertaining.
The plot is about a man, treated poorly by his mother and others his entire life, finally snapping and going on a killing spree through Las Vegas.
Sure, the film is very low quality but the dramatic events and killing scenes make it entertaining enough. Plus, some surprisingly good cinematography for a film of its grade.
Overall, it is of bad quality, but entertaining enough. 5.5/10.
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5.4/10
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is there .... is there ugh... is there seks in it?