Deadly Daphne’s Revenge (The Hunting Season). Richard Gardner, 1981.
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Edition screened: Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray #229, released 2018. English language. Runtime approximately 90 minutes.
Summary: A small dog is shot.
Details:
1) A cockapoo-type dog who is just walking calmly, is kicked and yelps at 1:17:06.
2) The dog, just sitting doing nothing, is shot at 1:23:50. His owner holds the bloody body through 1:25:42.
This movie is completely unlikable and offensive in every way. The main drama is a rape-and-revenge tale. The rapist and the victim both are excruciatingly repugnant, although he is more vile. The film is riddled with crude, mean-spirited racist and misogynistic dialogue. Social content aside, Deadly Daphne’s Revenge also is a badly written, disorganized movie mostly about a hunting trip that turns into a rape party, with a framing mechanism (the irrelevant story of Daphne’s history with one of the hunters) tenuously tacked-on and barely justified with a few lines of dialogue. Scenes of lawyers quibbling in their bathroom-sized offices pad the middle fifty-percent of the movie between the brutal rape and the shoulder-shrugging resolution.