Created by JAMES POLAKOF Screenplay by JAMES KEACH and DAVID PRITCHARD   Cast PETER HOOTEN as Robert KATHRINE BAUMANN as Jenny RIC CARROTT as Marshall ANNE LOCKHARTas Tina ROBERT ENGLUND as MIchael JAMES KEACH as Levon DAVID PRITCHARD as Danker SUSAN McCORMICK as Susan Special Appearances by PETER BROWN as The Professor RUDY VALLEE as The Proprietor

Sunburst Poster becomes Slashed Dreams video box

This is a very strange little movie.  It was originally packaged as a hippy philosophy, enlightenment, back to nature, Age of Aquarius type of film but repackaged for video as a slasher flick with a new title and misleading description.  Peter Brown plays just the kind of socio-babble kind of "with-it" professor complete with jeans and a madras shirt who gained a big following with alienated students in the 1970's [and whose classes were packed with coeds] but was avoided like the plague by students interested in serious academics.  He has only one scene which sets the mood for the movie as he elicits questions about alienation and spouts off about "honest positivity" and the dynamics of change as they approach the Aquarian Age.  [Authors note:  Someday one of us is going to ask Peter about his "lecture" in this movie and maybe find out that he wrote it and at the time even thought it made sense.  Peter was supposedly into the study of metaphysics in the seventies.  But we can only hope that he would see the humor in the dialogue now.  We will bet the clothes were his and we know the silver cross he's wearing is.]

Jenny the cheerleader, homecoming queen wants to find the meaning of life.  She's tired of her frat boyfriend Marshall and responds favorably to her long-time best friend Robert who spouts a  hippy philosophy.  They end up driving to the mountains to visit a guy [Robert Englund] who dropped out to find himself.

They cavort around in the woods, find their friend's cabin, go skinny dipping and are watched and verbally harassed by a couple of seedy creeps who come into the cabin after dark and rape Jenny.  When their friend Mike returns to the cabin, he convinces Jenny to use the rape to achieve some kind of enlightenment.  Robert tries to get enlightened by beating up the rapists but doesn't do too well.

Levon & Danker watch then later take action

  ROBERT ENGLUND

NiteOwl Review:   We aren't going to take the trouble to make sense of this movie.  It shows up on ebay occasionally.  Peter has only the one scene, which is incredibly '70's in tone.  It's not worth collecting unless you're an obsessive completist.  And make sure you don't get into a bidding war with a Robert Englund fan.  His part in this movie is one of his earliest roles.  We've seen this movie go on ebay for as little as $6 and as much as $56 depending on whether the description includes Robert Englund's part.  It's usually listed under "Slashed Dreams" as that's the video title.  Cast Note:  Kathrine Baumann was in Chrome and Hot Leather as a girl in William Smith's motorcycle gang who was abused by her boyfriend Casey and has a scene with Bill that exposes his character's  nicer side.

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