Zum Töten verführt (1984)

Zum Töten verführt: Directed by Howard Avedis. With Sybil Danning, Eric Brown, Andrew Prine, Paul Clemens. A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yacht. The hesitant student succumbs to his buxom professor, but their romance is interrupted by her corrupt husband and a masked murderer.

“I have what I call u0026quot;The Adrienne Barbeau Theorem,u0026quot; which is as follows: Big breasts, in and of themselves, are not enough reason to watch a terrible movie. Ironically, there are two movies that strongly test my theorem, and one of them is Adrienne Barbeauu0026#39;s u0026quot;Swamp Thing.u0026quot; The other is an abysmal u0026#39;80s slasher flick titled u0026quot;Theyu0026#39;re Playing with Fire.u0026quot; Sybil Danning plays an English professor (so much for realism) who seduces one of her young students (Eric Brown) in order to make him a patsy in a murder plot in which sheu0026#39;s involved. Despite its familiar ring, this plot line is several generations (not to mention quality points) removed from u0026quot;Double Indemnityu0026quot; and its ilk. In fact, the movieu0026#39;s slasher motif is so sordid, even for this genre, that itu0026#39;s painful to watch. The movie would be deservedly forgotten, were it not for Danningu0026#39;s astounding sex scenes.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThese scenes, particularly the first one, are as jaw-dropping as anything youu0026#39;re likely to see in a mainstream, R-rated movie. While not as anatomically graphic as your average porn video, Danning in the altogether amply displays enough, er, enthusiasm to get her point across. In fact, sheu0026#39;s so enthusiastic, you lose any sympathy for the kid sheu0026#39;s seducing. Hereu0026#39;s this gorgeous, buxom blonde twisting the night away on top of him, and he canu0026#39;t think of anything better to do than *make conversation* with her! Obviously, the kid needs an education in more than English.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOther than the all-too-brief scenes in which Danning demonstrates why a date with her would fetch a small fortune on an auction block, the movieu0026#39;s only element of interest is in seeing Alvy Moore, who played Hooterville county agent Hank Kimball on TVu0026#39;s u0026quot;Green Acres,u0026quot; hitting a career low as a gas-station manager whou0026#39;s dumb enough to hire and re-hire the kid as an attendant even after heu0026#39;s dumped the job on the promise of some loot from Danningu0026#39;s English professor. The only thing that could have made this movie more bad-memorable would be to pair Danning with fluttery Hank Kimball: u0026quot;Welcome to Hootersville, I mean Hooterville! Sorry, I was blinded by your headlights, I mean my car headlights. The car is strangely stacked, I mean built, I mean…u0026quot;”