Starring Lauren Tewes (of "The Love Boat" fame), to whom nothing happens, Jennifer Jason Leigh (in her first movie role, I'm pretty sure), who is almost raped, and a hot actress named Gwen Lewis (who apparently was over 53 when this film was completed, if the IMDB is correct, but she looks damn good for a 53-year old if that is correct), who is raped and murdered.

My favorite scene in this movie is the stalking/rape/murder of the Gwen Lewis character, Debbie. After the requisite build-up, she arrives home to her apartment about 4:45 minutes into the movie. She walks down the hallway to her bathroom while removing her wraparound skirt to reveal a black leotard/one-piece bathing suit sort of thing. The movie cuts back and forth between her and the killer in a phone booth outside her apartment as he calls her and terrifies her. It is a very nice build-up. The killer gets into her apartment, her boyfriend comes over, the killer kills her boyfriend, she discovers his headless body and about 14:00 minutes into the movie comes the payoff. She backs into the killer (wearing a nylon hose over his head), who hits her, backing her into the wall. He tears her dress, revealing her bra, as she screams and slides down against the wall to cower on the floor.

Next scene he hits her in the face, knocking her back onto her bed. He tears open her bra to reveal her breasts. She tries to rise, but he slaps her face twice. She watches in fear and he removes his belt. She really does make some nice helpless-and-afraid noises during the scene. He wraps his belt around her throat and begins to choke her. As she struggles against the belt tightening, he forces her legs apart and moves on top of her and between her legs. The scene cuts away to the living room as her muffled screams are heard. Something about this scene really did it for me. I think it was her screams and the various victim noises she made. Very few high-pitched horror movie type screams, and more real-to-life sounds of distress.

At 1:17:00 minutes into the movie, the killer has broken into the apartment of Jennifer Jason Leigh's character, Tracy. She is blind from a childhood trauma, so it is psychosomatic, which plays into the plot in a few minutes. Anyway, the killer finds her hiding in a closet and pulls her out and onto the bed. Jennifer Jason Leigh does a good job keeping her eyes unfocused to really sell her blindness. The killer slaps her in the face five times, rips open her shirt to reveal her white t-shirt, then rips down her t-shirt to expose her breasts. As she struggles, she begins to overcome her psychosomatic blindness and her vision begins returning, but everything is fuzzy. She kicks the killer in the crotch and escapes to get a gun from the dresser, which she uses to shoot him.

Then she wanders into the bathroom and admires one of her breasts in the mirror. Well, okay, she is probably just looking at herself but I was admiring her breast. The killer is not dead, though, and crashes in, tosses her up onto the bathroom counter and starts choking her with his hands. Nice choking scene. Lauren Tewes rushes in and shoots the guy in the forehead. The end.

I have a special fondness for Jennifer Jason Leigh. She does nude scenes at the drop of a hat. This was her first movie role and there she is topless and the victim of an attempted rape. She was nude and had sex in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. She was raped and gave us copious nudity in Flesh + Blood. And those are just the ones I can think of right off hand. She is a goddess.