Two nasty and sadistic criminal scumbags stalk and terrorize a group of young female geology students on a camping trip in the desert.Writer/director Jeff Hathcock maintains a gritty'n'sleazy leering tone throughout, delivers a generous sprinkling of tasty gratuitous distaff nudity along with some okay gore, grounds the premise in a plausible workaday reality, and makes good use of the desolate desert main location. Robert Axelrod and Lonny Withers do credible work as the despicable misogynistic psycho creeps. David Essex's plain cinematography provides a suitably rough'n'grainy look. Glenn Baxley's shivery synthesizer score does the skin-crawling trick. Although this film suffers from sluggish pacing and a crippling dearth of tension, it nonetheless remains harsh and effective enough to qualify as a perfectly decent piece of grimy schlock.

Four unattractive girls are raped and subjected to sexual degradation by two sleazy criminals.The desert setting is full of screams.After watching Jeff Hathcock's "Night Ripper" I decided to check out his debut "Victims".In comparison to "Night Ripper" "Victims" is far more exploitative and misogynistic.The acting is awful and some scenes are extremely cheesy,but the misogyny is rampant and some scenes of abuse are actually pretty mean-spirited.The film is obviously influenced by "Last House on the Left" and "I Spit on Your Grave",two exploitation staples of 70's.6 out of 10 for this low-budget piece of smut.Can't wait to see Jeff Hathcock's "Streets of Death".

A woefully pissant underachievement that reeks of a very uncool type of misogyny, VICTIMS finds a circle of young female geology students enjoying a relaxing expedition at some nameless middle-of-the-desert location(not the most appealing environment, but it's free to film your movie there). The girls are latterly besieged by some boneheaded creeps armed with hunting rifles on a rape-and-torture excursion. Not surprisingly, the proverbial tables are turned, and the morons are hit with their deserved comeuppance.Obviously drawing its feeble inspirations from an orbit of vastly superior films like LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT and I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, this hack-job of a non-thriller is so unskillfully forged that it boggles the mind to know it was given even minimal home video distribution. Were it not for gratuitous nudity and a light peppering of semi-micro-potent moments, VICTIMS could have been a lightweight contender for ALL-TIME WORST accolades, and although it may have Lilliputian advantages over famously awful films such as ROBOT MONSTER or THE CREEPING TERROR, its flagrant brutish machismo is so abject and gross that it registers as somehow worse than those films in a roundabout, off-the-charts sort of way. Blecccch.3/10...avoid this cinematic hemorrhoid.

I was not expecting much when seeing this movie about these 4 girls that get raped in a remote desert. But it turned out that this movie was a little better than another rape movie called "Last House on the Left" directed by Wes Craven. This movie actually had an ending where the woman used a gun to prevail. 3/10