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Candy Morgan (Claudia Jennings) has escaped from prison, and has stolen some sticks of dynamite. She decides to rob a bank with said dynamite (lighting the fuse in the bank) and encounters Ellie-Jo (Jocelyn Jones), who has just been fired from her job in the bank.

Later Ellie-Jo is hitching and is picked up by Candy and the two decide to rob more banks, embarking on a bank robbing spree. They buy more dynamite from the dynamite guy, and Candy seduces him (this is not really a porn though, everything is tastefully done).

While robbing a store they take a random hostage (Johnny Crawford) who becomes their accomplice and who acts as love interest for Ellie-Jo. More banks are held up, dynamite is thrown at cops, they recklessly spend money, and lots of fun is had. They make their way through Texas, trying to get to Mexico.

This is sort of close to being a trashy B-movie but doesn't quite get there somehow. It's one of those seventies films where people are driving about in the south being chased by cops with those blue and red lights on their cars. Only with more dynamite.

I enjoyed it while it was on and it's better than Thelma and Louise anyway. I would almost suggest a modern remake, but they'd only ruin it.

Stefano (played very engagingly by Lino Capolicchio who looks somewhat like James McAvoy) arrives in a nowhere rural Italian town to restore a fresco in an old church.

Said fresco depicts Saint Sebastian being martyred, being stabbed with daggers instead of arrows. The fresco was painted by a mad painter who had died about twenty years before, who always depicted death and suffering, being nicknamed "the painter of agonies".

At his hotel he gets creepy phone calls warning him to leave and not to restore the fresco, and soon his friend and employer staying in the same village meets with an accident, falling or being pushed out of a window.

Instead of getting on the first train back to Ferrara, he decides unwisely to stick around and get to the bottom of the mystery. He begins to live in an old house with an old paraplegic lady living upstairs, who never leaves her bed, and begins a romance with a local schoolteacher. He also interacts with the local priest and an idiot verger boy at the church where he's working on the fresco.

He finds in the house a creepy room, with a locked cupboard in it, and a creepy old tape-recorder with a recording of the old painter muttering creepily (sorry but everything in this film is creepy).

He finds out in the course of his investigations that the mad painter had two sisters, (who are gradually revealed depicted in the fresco as he restores it, plunging the daggers into the saint) and that they brought the painter victims as human sacrifices, the murders being depicted in his paintings.

As one reviewer says on AllMovie, the film is "imbued with an overwhelming sense of dread that grows to an almost unbearable pitch."

The denouement of the film is like some kind of horrible nightmare, and has the nightmare quality of being slightly ridiculous as well as horrific, hallucinatory almost. It would've really disturbed me as a child.

Well worth watching if you like horror, stick with it through bits that might seem slow. Everything adds to the unravelling of the plot as you try to work out what's going on.