Ed de Priest Movies
- 1970
- R
The Hard Road is a 1970s exploitation flick posing as a crusading expose. Connie Nelson plays a "nice" girl who goes from bad to worse after she becomes pregnant. Kicked out of school and virtually driven from her home, Nelson finds solace in drugs. She starts out with pot, graduates to the hard stuff, and ends up selling her body in order to support her habit. This is your brain on drugs: any questions? ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Connie Nelson, Catherine Howard, (more)
One of the more unusual sex/horror efforts of the '60s, Mantis in Lace concerns a young dancer named Lila (Susan Stewart) who seduces men and murders them in a grimy warehouse while tripping on LSD. Bizarre hallucinations alternate with fairly bloody slasher sequences and the usual softcore grinding. Devotees of the "ghoulie" subgenre of vintage sleaze will appreciate Laszlo Kovacs' rather inspired cinematography and some imaginative touches by director William Rotsler. What they may not appreciate is the annoying theme song ("Lila"). ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
