The gush of slasher films began waning in 1986. The 80s were the Golden Era of slasher films, though most of the famous ones emanated from the earlier part of the decade. Sadly, our feature today was an easy one to miss. With a straight-to-VHS feel to it, it came out way before the straight-to-VHS craze prevalent in the 1990s. All the great tropes that endear us to this slasher sub-genre are here. Two nubile, often nude damsels in peril. A moralistic slasher. Immoral sultry dames looking for pre-marital sex and finding death, instead. A big knife. An Indian legend...etc. Our feature today is 1986's "Terror at Tenkiller," directed by Ken Meyer.
What a first few minutes! The pretty waitress Denise (Jill Holmes) is dragged into the woods by moralistic hunk Tor (Michael Shamus Wiles). He slits her throat and disposes of her body in the middle of the lake, just as he has done to several babes already. Next, the lovely blonde Leslie (Stacey Logan) swims in the pool at her college, climbs out all wet and sexy, heads up to the locker room for a gratuitous shower, and meets her bestie, the lovely Janna (Michele Merchant) in the locker room. Leslie is sad because the only BF she has had is getting abusive. Josh (Kevin Meyer) is very possessive and is almost at the point of physical abuse to the nubile blonde. Janna convinces Leslie to go to Tenkiller Lake with her this summer for some recreation, safety away from Josh, and waitressing at a diner. They go and both get jobs as waitresses at the diner where they meet the weird hunk Tor.
Debbie (Debbie Killian) is the current waitress at the diner and when she gets all dolled up for a date, Tor sees her. When Debbie gets home, Tor invades the hot tub she is in, and decimates her with a big knife. Tor is driven even more mad as he admires Leslie's beauty. Leslie and Janna will have many nude scenes and gratuitous bikini scenes. Now Tor's hormones are spiking as is his murderous libido. He'll kill more but we know that soon Janna and Leslie will have to deal with him.
Will Janna and or Leslie be skewered by the puritanical Tor? Is Tor right, that all the hussies are asking for their fate? Will Tor have pre-marital sex with them before or after killing them, and will they be nude or in bikinis when he attacks? Okay, that last question was slightly gratuitous. For a moralistic and vicious slasher film from the 80s, see "Terror at Tenkiller."
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