The Centerfold Girls (1974) is like any other sexploitation film; beautiful women being terrorized in the nude. However, unlike most of the others films in this genera, The Centerfold Girls (1974) has a great story to accommodate and justify the nudity and violence.
“The most beautiful girls in the world…” refers to the cast of twelve beautiful centerfold models whose lives are about to be cut short for their lack of shame. A thin, creepy man wearing saddle shoes and an ill-fitting suit drags the nude body of a young woman along an otherwise empty beach. Soon a number of other beautiful women turn up dead. Nurses, students, stewardesses… what’s the common thread? All were centerfold models for a popular men’s magazine, prey to a bloodthirsty psychotic with a straight razor!
Andrew Prine's take on the depraved religious fanatic who sets out to punish all the "immoral" women who posed for the tasteless men's magazine is fantastic. His creepy charms and manorisums match that of a deranged psycho; the way he delivers 'crazy' through wide cold eyes is most memorable. And the simple yet classic straight razor murder weapon works to the films advantage adding a more elegance to the murders as opposed to the typical over the top butchery of other similar films.
"The most beautiful girls in the world! He was their JUDGE... JURY... and EXECUTIONER!"
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