This is one of the first and best shot-on-video shockers. It looks like a real movie and, like Savage's little-seen BEYOND THE PALE shorts, takes no prisoners.
Story is simple. A sleazebag and his Lolita-like girlfriend are tracked by two thugs to a country house. En route, the thugs rape a local girl. The climax features the killing and maiming of both very young children and adults as unhappy parties exact revenge.
Made on a shoestring, but never less than technically polished and sharply directed, MARAUDERS features a really nasty rape scene that is cut in most countries. The dialogue is funny and crude and the characterisations of the bad guys are very authentic.
Colin Savage, the brother of the director, portrays the meanest thug convincingly and would later appear in Richard Wolstoncroft's BLOODLUST, Savage's SENSITIVE NEW AGE KILLER and THE MASTURBATING GUNMAN and the excellent Aussie BULLET IN THE ARSE (which I caught at Sitges just recently).
Savage's output reminds me of an Aussie Takashi Ishii.
