Warning: Due to the hideousness of this film, spoilers have been provided.

THIS IS NOT A HORROR FILM. Don't believe its posters or IMDB. That being said, it's not that bad. It's not good by any means, but Point of Terror is not something that will make you rip out your eyeballs and scream, "Why, God, why?" Actually, I think this film is a promotional gimmick for the lead actor, Peter Carpenter. The film starts out showing him in a shiny red suit with 2-foot long fringe hanging from his arms and chest. That is the scariest scene in this movie. I know this guy was going for the Tom Jones look, but he missed it by, well, a lot.

After the first insufferable musical number, the movie opens with Tony Trelos (Carpenter) lying on a beach. He is hit on by an older woman named Andrea. Andrea is played by none other than Dyanne Thorne of the infamous Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS films. (You didn't vait...). Andrea tries to pick up Tony and he tells her to come see his act at the local restaurant. As Tony is walking away, we get a scene of Andrea's record producer husband overlooking both of them like some strange vulture.

Many more precious minutes of my life were wasted watching Tony sing at the imaginatively named Lobster House restaurant. After that, Tony, who just finished screwing his girlfriend in his dressing room, sits down at the table where Andrea and her friend, Fran, have been slinging them back all evening. Tony and Andrea go back to Tony's house where Andrea makes a point of denigrating Tony's home. Andrea eventually sets Tony up as her new boy toy in return for a record contract with her husband's record company.

Once Andrea leaves, Tony's girlfriend enters and we are subjected to a horrible scene where Tony outlines his shitty life while resting his head in his girlfriend's lap. His mom was a whore, his dad was a drunk, he fucks older women for money, etc. In addition to torturing the audience, this scene shows just what a sap the girlfriend is. Not only does she not protest when Tony tells her who his next conquest will be, she agrees to have sex with him on the rocks below his home. I'm not sure which would piss me off more, my lover telling me they were going to screw someone else, or having rocks poking into my back while they screw me. In addition to this unrealistic approach to sex, the screen splits into 3 rectangles while Tony's doing his girl. This has got to be one of the strangest sex scenes put in a non-porno film.

Next we see Martin, Andrea's crippled hubby, talking with one of his employees on the phone. He's in a motorized wheelchair, cursing everyone. What does he think about his wife? "That dirty bitch!" Why doesn't he divorce her? She's got him by the balls, and he knows it, but it works both ways. She killed his first wife (seen in a flashback). He can implicate her, she can implicate him, and that means both of them are, as Martin puts it, "...in it together." You'd think they'd learn to live together in mutual animosity, but Martin has to be unreasonable. He won't let her drink, he won't let her see other men, AND he wants her to work. Andrea, being the lazy, horny, alcoholic that she is, refuses. Moreover, she rubs in his shortcomings as a husband before downing another J&B.

After torturing us with another session of Tony's singing (this time in a pseudo-studio), they torture us with another sex scene. Andrea and Tony get busy in Andrea's pool. She assures Tony that hubby's asleep and they pollute the pool big time. As soon as Tony leaves, however, Martin wheels himself right over to Andrea. Intellectual giant that he is, he chases her around the pool in his MOTORIZED WHEELCHAIR. Andrea, drunker than a blonde cheerleader on prom night, grabs a tablecloth and starts taunting Martin by saying, "Toro, toro." Martin eventually falls in the pool and drowns (big surprise). Then Andrea issues the best line in the film, "Olé."

Next comes Martins funeral where we see Helayne, Martin's daughter by his first wife. (Yeah, the one Andrea killed.) Fran, Andrea's alcoholic friend, points out that Helayne and Andrea will end up splitting Martin's estate 50/50. Tony still asks Andrea to marry him. Andrea laughs at him, and they have a really big fight. Tony tells Andrea that he knows she killed her husband. Andrea tells Tony that he won't get his record produced if he doesn't keep his mouth shut. It ends in a stalemate and Andrea leaves for a vacation.

Fran is left in charge of watching after Helayne. Instead, Fran gets shitfaced at the Lobster House and starts to take off her clothes. Tony takes her home and ends up meeting Helayne. They date and end up getting married. You know, I really was hoping she'd talk Tony into murdering Andrea and then claiming all of her father's estate while turning Tony into the cops, but no. Instead, Andrea returns from her vacation and tells Tony that Helayne just lost all her fortune because she got married before she was 25. Tony, idiot that he is, tells her he doesn't care and they can live off his salary as a singer. Andrea tells him his record won't be produced if he doesn't continue with their relationship. He tells her he doesn't want to see her again. Then, in one of the most exciting scenes in the film, Andrea tackles him like a pro-wrestler and Tony flings her off a cliff where she falls to her death on the rocks below.

The next scene is one of the shittiest wrap-ups I've ever seen. A "detective" is walking around the pool area, talking on the phone to one of they cops at the station about what he's found while drinking the residents' booze and eating their food. Basically, Tony and Helayne are off the hook since Andrea had booze and barbituates in her system when she fell off the cliff. The question of foul play isn't even raised.

Just as Tony and Helayne are about to head for the airport for a honeymoon, Tony gets a call from his girlfriend. Previously she had told him she was pregnant. Dang, this is such a soap opera. With all the sensitivity of a brick wall, he told her to have an abortion. ("It's legal now.") Tony tells Helayne he'll meet her at the airport, and, like the dipshit he is, heads over to his ex's where she shoots him. You know, this would be a good ending, but no, they have to screw it up. Instead of leaving Tony dead (like he should be), we see him waking up on the same beach where we see him in the beginning of the film. And guess who introduces herself? You got it. Andrea. It was all a dream!

I've changed my mind. I hate this film. I hate it for making promises it had no intention of keeping. I hate it for focusing on a cheap copy of Tom Jones. I hate it for including stupid jokes about the barmaid's tits. I hate it for not including blood and gore. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. Thank you, Alex Nicol (director of The Screaming Skull). Thank you for ruining me. Even fans of Dyanne Thorne will have a horrible time sitting through this one and wondering, yes, what is the Point of Terror?

PS - Tom Jones is a god.