once upon a time there be this sincere and but painfully dated and hippie era melodrama call sunburst about life and love and the importance of get back to nature to find yourself . then come the video boom era of the 1980s and a rise star emerge in the horror genre for play a certain facially scar predator who kill teenager in their sleep . i can see the distributor now . well we get the right to this old movie full of simple mind 70 philosophy that nobody go to want to see now and but robert englund have a small role in it . now get this and how about we put england name on a horror look video box and re title it something like and say and slashed dream and that will make people think it like another elm street movie . well that precisely what happen with this one . it not a horror movie and there be only two brief scene that could conceivably land it in the genre while the first be a somewhat botched gang rape around a campfire and the other be the revenge scene with two guy fight with hatchet and knife that be cut short before any blood could be spill when one of the character decides to do the sensible thing . so by all mean do not watch this thinking youre go to be terrify by a knife killer stalk a random and half naked cutie by moonlight ( the eye catch image on the video box ) . here we basically have a story of two good look california college student name robert ( peter hooten ) and jenny ( kathrine baumann ) fall in love . she date an immature frat bully name mitchell ( ric carrott ) and but decide to end the relationship because mitch be a complete d khead who doesn not understand her and make one of his pledge do a pool side striptease wear female underwear and mickey mouse ear . so robert and jenny decide to visit a mutual friend name michael sutherland ( englund ) who drop out of college his freshman year to live a a hermit in a shack in the wood . for the majority of the movie we get the pair visit a general store to listen to the owner ( rudy vallee ) do a monologue and sing and trecking through the forest and try to go up cliff and merrily skip through the field and get all mushy on u by give each other gooey eye look and snuggling and rub berry in each others face . after a bear eats all their food and they do eventually arrive at michael lakeside shack only to find he not home . they go skinny dipping and get it on by the campfire and be then harass by two obnoxious redneck goon ( play by scriptwriter james keach and would eventually marry actress jane seymour and and david pritchard ) . the two half wit knock robert out and one start to slap around and rape jenny and but they pull out early and leave . so then michael show up the next morning and and the three friend work through the trauma . basically jenny be spoon fed some bull t about how life be sometimes cold and cruel and but you have just get to get over it and move on and which be probably go to come off a be pretty offensive to real rape victim . robert do encounter the goon once more and basically roll around in the mud with one of them for a minute to get out his frustration . the goon run off into the wood and robert and michael and jenny all laugh and give each other a big bear hug . the end . so basically it all a sensitive message movie about the virtue of be a simple head pacifist while a sort of well mean but hopelessly naive antithesis of sam peckinpah straw dog . much of the soundtrack be compose of a collection of lame song about how animal be clumsy and too and the world be full of warm hearted people with warm hearted reason sing by some high pitch squealer try to emulate carole king . the acting and nature photography be both ok. lead lady baumann ( who have some brief nude scene ) be a former miss ohio and miss america finalist who also appear in the thing with two head ( 1972 ) . the cast include anne lockhart a mitchell ex girlfriend and peter brown a a college professor .