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Marjorie, convinced that the law, as it often has done to women in her situation, will smear her as a seductress and absolve her assailant, wants to bury Raul alive in the garden. That does not happen...
Suddenly, a nongentlemanly caller opens the screen door and asks, as a ruse, for a guy named Joe who supposedly lives there. Raul (James Russo) is one of nature's punks. He exudes malignant animal magnetism. As the world is his jungle, women are his chosen prey. Marjorie tries a feeble ploy about a policeman husband asleep upstairs, but Raul knows better. He rips the phone cord out of the wall and pins Marjorie to the floor as he semi-suffocates her with a pillow...
...scene of electrifying revulsion, Raul coaches Marjorie on how to beg for his sexual assault: "Touch my hair. My mouth. My neck . . . Now touch me down there and say you wanna make love!" In a desperate last-minute lunge, Marjorie grabs hold of a roach-killer can and sprays the chemical directly into Raul's eyes...
...next act, the emotional balance shifts completely. Marjorie may be viewed either as an avenging angel or a paranoid witch. She has trussed up Raul in the fireplace and pinned a white blindfold around his head. She has clamped the head of a brass bedstead in front so that the fireplace resembles a prisoner's cell or an animal's cage. She pokes Raul in the stomach and groin with a broomstick, pours ammonia on him pretending it is gasoline, and peppers him with matches, threatening to burn him to death...
...inside, ably abetted by Stomu Yamashita's eerie, haunting score, Miranda (Molly Ringwald) and Aretha provide welcome lightness with their a capella renditions of the pop tune. "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?," a protest of the harsh conditions of their voluntary captivity. As the island's actual inhabitant. Raul Julia as Kalibanos is a nearly perfect primitive, adoring his goats and his Sony Trinitarian...