Hey guys! I'm back after forever. I finally found something worth reviewing. Those looking for a new rape-revenge movie with a western/Indian theme, look no further. I give you Scalped! This was directed by Bob Cook, who of course gave us hits such as Storm of the Dead and Lycanthrope. Oh you never heard of those? Yeah, me neither. Who cares. The important thing is he deserves to be on the map now (or ours anyway).

So let's start with the bad news. The GIMP in this isn't particularly graphic or groundbreaking. It's not as good as, say, I Spit On Your Grave 2. It is, however, something new, and features a lot of nudity, a hot main actress, and a few decent scenes. The actress, Lizbeth Sawyers, sort of looks like Mary Elizabeth Winstead. So if you've ever wanted to see her get humiliated, assaulted and tied up with no clothes on, seek help, and then watch this movie.

Alright alright now to the plot. Basically this white girl, Ana Sharp Claws (just go with it), is married to this Native American dude who is old enough to be her father. They've been living a happy life on this ranch with an old guy, another Indian, and a middle-aged woman with a baby. But then this group of guys who just got let out of jail pays a visit, and that's when things get good.
First they blow away the old man who tips off that he recognizes them as convicts and then is way too slow to draw his gun. Then they send one of their guys around the back, where he finds the mother, dunks her head in some water a few times, yanks down her strapless dress to reveal her small breasts, and then tells her she can take her kid and go. And then he shoots her in the back like an idiot instead of taking more advantage.

Then we go back to the front of the house where the husband Indian is trying to protect his wife, the heroine. But he's only got this weak-looking whip, and they kind of all have guns. So he lasts like 5 seconds. After they shoot him, Ana tells them she'll do anything if they let him live (though he's probably bleeding out anyway). So they say "OK, strip," and we get brief full frontal from a distance and a lot of humiliation. Then they kill the husband anyway and gang rape her, though we get shaky camera and a lot of her point of view, so not much is shown.

Afterwards they have her tied to the ground spread eagle, though you only see from her chest up. The stereotypical idiot of the group taunts her for a few scenes like that before some jerk old man Davy Crockett shows up and frees her. And then a few scenes later, just before she goes on her rampage, she throws off the blanket he's given her to go fully nude again (still just breasts and butt), saying no thanks, clothes will slow her down. Then she crawls up to her house naked and sneaks into her room, where she changes and starts taking revenge. There's more nudity later of her washing off blood in a stream, but that's it for the GIMP.

Like most mainstream movies, I applaud the effort (because we get so little of it now), but this isn't something that's going to knock your socks off if your standards are high. If you don't like the screen caps, don't bother because it doesn't get any better. This is really for the crowd who likes having a plot and seeing a regular actress getting the treatment. I wish they had gone further, but they went far enough for it to be worth a view in my opinion. I give it a B.
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