Savage Weekend (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079855/) is one of those weird '70s slasher flicks that has two GIMP-worthy scenes. The story concerns a group of people spending a weekend at a rustic vacation home. A masked killer offs them one at a time. Having seen this film a number of years ago, I can tell that there has been some editing, so the scenes don't have quite the impact they did in the original. But they may be worth a look nonetheless.

The first scene is told in flashback. One of the local yokels, Otis, finds his girlfriend with another guy out in the woods. She's wearing denim shorts and a midriff-baring shirt. Otis grabs her by the hair and drags her along the ground and into a nearby barn. He takes her to a vertical beam, ties her arms a few feet off the ground so she is slightly raised from the barn floor. He tears her shirt open widely, exposing her breasts. Then he produces a hot branding iron with the business end in the shape of the letter T. He brands her twice, once with the iron turned to the right, then overlapping the same spot with the iron turned to the left, which forms the letter H. (The narrator of the flashback explains that Otis meant the H to stand for "Hore". Otis wasn't very bright and didn't know how to spell "whore"). This is a decent scene that gets most of the essential elements right. I would like to have seen a little more struggling on the part of the victim, but I give it a B-. I may be mistaken, but I don't think this scene was edited.

Later, as the killer goes to work, he grabs the very cute Caitlyn O'Heaney as she is dancing around in her underwear. He gags her and ties her to a table saw in the basement, her arms fastened to one end a few feet above the table, her head resting near the blade, and her stockinged legs dangling over the other table end. The table saw needs to be activated by a light switch, but the light bulb is burned out, so he has to find another way to turn on the saw. Unfortunately, the killer is interrupted before he has a chance to rip her clothes off or tie her legs down, both of which would have helped the scene. But there is a nice overhead shot of her spread out on the table in her precarious situation. While the killer is away dealing with another potential victim, our "hero" arrives and inadvertently turns on the light at the top of the basement stairs, which turns the saw on. Sadly, what happens next was edited (!), presumably because it was too gory. I give this scene a D+, the + because the victim, although not naked, looks very nice spread out on the table saw. But the payoff just isn't there.

This is probably a topic for somebody else's forum, but the director seems to have had a fetish for sharp objects. In the course of the movie, everyone seems to get accidentally snagged on something (fish hook, barbed wire, protruding nail, etc.) in very lengthy but inconsequential scenes.