This 1970s slasher film features a flashback scene where Otis, one of the local yokels (played by William Sanderson of “Larry, Darryl and Darryl” fame) discovers his girlfriend cheating on him with another man out in the woods. He drags her along the ground and into a nearly barn. He ties her to a vertical beam and heats up a branding iron until it’s glowing red. Then he rips open her top, exposing her breasts and plunges the heated brand into the middle of her chest, producing the letter T. Then he flips it around and burns her a second time to make the T into 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”). Quite a nice scene that would have worked better with some live sound; since it’s a flashback, it’s mostly just music as the soundtrack. Beware that many prints of this movie are edited to remove the nudity, which totally ruins this scene. VIDEO LINK
Savage Weekend (1979)
Marilyn Hamlin
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