Oooh! This one won't end well. This is hardly a spoiler. From the outset you will see where this is headed. What makes this even more difficult is the fact that the victims will be nubile, and often nude, babes. The groupies are sultry, and often nude (did I mention that?), and so willing to perform for the "musicians" that seek their intimacy. Our feature today is the dark exploitation film, 1973's "Bummer," directed by William Allen Castleman.
Duke (Kip Whitman) is the lead "singer" of a band called "The Group." Wow...how did he come up with that? Perhaps he lost a bet. He has three mates, Gary (David Buchanan), Mike (David Ankrum), and Butts (Dennis Burkley). The problem...Butts. The behemoth of a guitarist is unstable...subject to temper outbursts of violence. He has mommy issues and his mom (Kate Monahan) loves giving him sensual massages. Enter three sultry groupies. The rich gal Barbara (Connie Strickland), Dolly (Diane Lee Hart), and Janyce (Carol Speed). They hook up with The Group. See the problem? Hint...Four musicians...three babes. Do the math. Butts does the math and sees himself as a fifth wheel. Using his brawn, he grabs Barbara and Dolly, strips them, hauls them into a shower, puts on the cold water, makes them soap each other down, and whacks off to the spectacle. Do the gals storm out after that? No! Idiots!
Yep...the nudity, pre-marital sex, and bad music will be thrown at us. Duke refuses to listen to his band members and see Butts as a danger. Duke continues boinking Dolly, Mike boinks Janyce, and Gary boinks Barbara. Butts only has the intimacy of his...mom. Butts will rape a groupie in Bakersfield, but Duke will look the other way. Why? Who knows? Then this all comes to a bloody and vicious head, as Butts can control himself no longer around the trio of sultry groupies. Vicious and bloody will be the key words for the last third of the film.
Will any of these nubile, if not slutty, groupies survive the wrath of Butts? Just why won't Duke see the light and get rid of Butts? Has anyone suggested singing lessons to this quartet of miscreants? See "Bummer" and be bummed out. Not the feel good film of 1973...though was anything in 1973 "feel good"?
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