Mantis in Lace
Cast & Crew
William Rotsler
Susan Stewart
Steve Vincent
M. K. Evans
Vic Lance
Pat Barrington
Film Details
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Synopsis
Lila, a topless dancer in a nightclub, picks up male customers and takes them to a warehouse for strange sexual trysts in the eerie light of flickering candles. One night, Lila picks up Tiger, a young hippie who introduces her to LSD. A bunch of bananas appear to her in place of Tiger's head, and she goes berserk, stabbing him in the back with a screwdriver and scattering his mutilated remains over a vacant lot. A psychologist becomes her next victim. "Tripping" again, Lila sees him as a surgeon, poised over her with a hypodermic needle, and she stabs him with the screwdriver. Lila's next pickup, a truckdriver, accompanies her to the warehouse intent on rape. Under the influence of LSD, she murders him with a hoe and scatters his remains over the vacant lot. The police, suspecting a madman, finally trace telltale bloodstains to the warehouse. When Lila arrives with another customer, the police believe that they have found their man. Lila's latest lover carries a gun, which appears to her as a gigantic insect. As she reaches for the gun, the police shoot the innocent man. Only when Lila begins to hack his body to pieces do the police realize that she is the mass murderer.
Director
William Rotsler
Cast
Susan Stewart
Steve Vincent
M. K. Evans
Vic Lance
Pat Barrington
Janu White
Stuart Lancaster
John Caroll
John Lasalle
Hinton Pope
Bethel Buckalew
Lyn Armondo
Norton Holper
Judith Crane
Cheryl Trepton
Crew
Richard Aguilar
Lisa Bickley
Frank Borass
Bethel Buckalew
Frank Coe
Ed Depriest
Rick Heenan
Paul Hunt
Laszlo Kovacs
Vic Lance
Harry H. Novak
Harry H. Novak
Peter Perry
Peter Perry
Peter Sorel
David Story
Mike Weldon
Sanford White
Sanford White
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Notes
Re-released in September 1969 as Lila; running time: 88 min.
