I'd never heard of this one until a friend introduced me to it recently and it's rapidly become one of my new favorites. It's a pretty simple plot concerning two drug-dealing no-goodniks who run afoul of the law and fulfill the promise of the title. The plot is not the main attraction here though, at least not to me, I found the oddball touches way more interesting. First off our duo runs into a seemingly retarded ice-cream man in one of the strangest cinematic moments I've viewed in a while, then shoot there way through the rest of the movie bickering and picking up some female companionship along the way. Finally it all ends up in a weirdo hippie drug-dealers house where cocaine and threesomes are flowing. The most surprising thing to me about the film is that it's a grimy 70s experience full of degenerates where no actual rapes happen. Women are not treated very nice anyway though and it does come close at times but that was something that definitely stood out. The other big surprise is the amount of blood that flows. For an early 70s action/thriller movie it's quite heavy on the red sauce(makeup fx by a young Rick Raker obviously account for this). Overall I'd call this a great downer 70s flick that's worth checking out for fans of LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT and films of that ilk.
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